X-Files star Gillian Anderson looks younger than ever in ethereal floral look

The X-Files star Gillian Anderson looked ethereal as she stepped out at a special screening of her upcoming film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, in Los Angeles.

The 57-year-old stunned in a white short-sleeved dress featuring a collar and delicate floral detailing. She paired the look with a brown Miu Miu belt and bronze stiletto heels, and wore her blonde locks in a chic updo for the event.

“Looked Camp (Miasma) right in the eye last night…” Gillian wrote in her Instagram caption, as her fans rushed to the comment section to exclaim over her beauty. 

“Looking great mama!” said one, while another wrote: “Such a stunner – natural beauty!” A third chimed in: “She always looks great,” while another added: “Agent Scully looking good!”

The X-Files reboot

Gillian portrayed Agent Scully in The X-Files for 11 seasons from 1993 to 2002 and from 2016 to 2018, in a role that won her a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. The series is set for a reboot headed by Sinners director Ryan Coogler, and the project received the tick of approval from Gillian in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

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“I cannot think of a better person to take the helm,” she said. “I think that he’s extraordinary and I read the script that he wrote, and it’s brilliant. I was impressed by how different and yet how quintessentially like an X-File it was.”

Gillian’s latest project

Her new film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, co-stars Hannah Einbinder and Patrick Fischler, and follows the director of a slasher sequel on her quest to cast the original film’s “final girl”.

“I can’t wait for people to see…It is nuts. And it’s so much fun. I really enjoyed the character that I played,” she shared with Collider. “This is so much more than a slasher. This is like a slasher within a slasher within a slasher.”

Aging in the spotlight

Gillian has long been admired for her ageless beauty, yet the actress is a fierce advocate for embracing the aging process, as she told New Beauty.

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“I think in Europe, in general, there’s a sense that women who age naturally can be beautiful, whereas I’m not so sure that’s the perception in America, specifically in LA,” she said. “I think that it’s seen as a flaw, somehow – like wrinkles are a flaw.”

“Above anything else, I want to encourage women to believe in themselves and to advocate for what they really want in their lives,” she told SheerLuxe.

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“There’s something quite empowering about the fact that women share the same fears, goals, desires and anxieties – together, we can go after and achieve what we want from life, but it starts with believing that we can and that we deserve it.”

Gillian added that she was still being offered complex characters and roles into her 50s, and that aging hadn’t slowed her down at all.