Golden Globe-winning actress who starred alongside David Duchovny, portraying FBI agent Dana Scully on the television series The X-Files. She reprised her role in the 1998 film The X-Files, its 2008 sequel X-Files: I Want to Believe and a 2016 X-Files miniseries.
She started her acting career by joining an amateur actor group while in high school.
She starred in the 2000 film The House of Mirth and also appeared in the movies The Mighty Celt, Sister, and Mr. Morgan's Last Love.
She was raised with two siblings, Aaron and Zoe. She married and had a daughter named Piper with Clyde Klotz, before the couple divorced. She was then briefly married to Julian Ozanne and she has two sons, Oscar and Felix, from her relationship with Mark Griffiths.
She had a supporting role alongside Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland.