Main Image: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on Fox’s The X Files.

Season 4 of The Crown is now streaming on Netflix. Thank goodness for the theater, because Anderson’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Crown is not one to miss. It had a big impact on the choices that I made, because I was burnt out.”

I definitely wouldn’t have been in Bleak House or Great Expectations. “I would’ve had a version of my career that would have been very, very different than the career that I’ve had. Had she not changed her state of mind toward theater, “I probably would’ve hired a publicist who would’ve been pushing me out there in Los Angeles as me, separate from Scully,” she added. When the beloved sci-fi series ended its nine-year run in 2002, Anderson told Backstage, “What actually happened was I didn’t know if I ever wanted to step foot on set again.” Now flirting with the possibility of adding The Crown to her list of Golden Globe-winning roles, Anderson attributes her post- X-Files success to her decision to leave Los Angeles and move to London to pursue theater. Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, courtesy of Netflix The X-Files starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson ranks in our ranking of the 50 Best TV Shows on Netflix.

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