TV SERIES · 1993–2018 · USA
The X-Files
- Created by
- Chris Carter
- Network
- FOX
- Seasons
- 11
- Episodes
- 218
- Studio
- Ten Thirteen Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
111 archived facts 8 topics 1 source Last reviewed Nov 2026
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
111 Interesting Facts About The X-Files
Interesting Facts (9)
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Gillian Anderson has declared several times that her favorite episode is "Bad Blood" and David Duchovny that his favorite end in an episode is 'The Post-Modern Prometheus'', in which Mulder and Scully dance together. Also, they agree that the third season episode "Teso Dos Bichos" is the worst one, with Anderson calling it "that one episode about killer pussycats".
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The series does not show episode titles on-screen. While this was not unusual even in 1993 (though it is more commonplace in 2004 when virtually no American dramatic television series display episode titles), what is unusual is that many fans learned episode titles as well as advance plot information via the Internet. The X-Files was one of the first television series to be so promoted.
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Production Story (32)
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The first five seasons of the show were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The show often cast local Canadian actors in guest and secondary roles, often reusing the same actors in different parts in multiple episodes. The most prominent example of this was Nicholas Lea, who appeared in a guest role in Season One before being cast in the unconnected, more prominent role of Alex Krycek starting in Season Two, but there are many other examples of local actors who had multiple roles over the course of several different episodes, including: Roger Cross, J.B. Bivens, Lorena Gale, Gillian Barber, Forbes Angus, Larry Musser, Harrison Coe, Hrothgar Mathews, P. Lynn Johnson, and Doug Abrahams (among many others). Each of these appeared in three or more episodes, each time as a different character (Barber played three characters in four episodes).
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Chris Carter wanted the show to end after the fifth season, when his original contract, as well as those of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, expired. Carter wanted to continue the story in a series of feature films, starting with The X Files (1998). The FOX Network, however, found demand for the show too high to cancel the series, so they instead mandated that the film fit in between seasons five and six of the show. Carter found writing seasons five and six as well as the film very difficult, as he had to craft a screenplay that would not require the audience to have seen the show to understand it, and episodes of the series that would tie in to the film but not rely directly on the film's plot to make sense.
The X-Files (1993): Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny at a Comic-Con panelImage: Wikimedia Commons · Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 - #014
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Chris Carter has cited Moonlighting (1985) as an influence on this show, specifically the relationship between Mulder and Scully. Carter also has said that the show is an example of how not to further the story, as the sexual tension between the two leads should never be resolved. In spite of this, he always has admitted that Scully loves Mulder and Mulder loves Scully, although he is not very open to a romantic relationship between them being more agree with a platonic love for them.
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Being too young for the part, Gillian Anderson lied about her real age when she auditioned for it, saying that she was four years older than she actually was.
The X-Files (1993): Gillian Anderson in front of a microphoneImage: Wikimedia Commons · Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 - #021
Former director and producer Rob Bowman didn't return to direct the series because in a roundtable discussion as to whether or not to do another "X-Files" feature film, it was decided that a six-episode mini-series would be able to go more in depth with previous story arcs and continuity from the original series and first film.
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In the UK, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment released new "Mytharc" multi-part episodes as edited-together television movies on VHS in the mid-1990s. However, these tapes (which usually took the title of just one of the episodes comprising them but were sometimes completely re-named) were extremely expensive and released as numbered "Files" in the wrong order. For example, "File 3: Abduction" ("Duane Barry"/"Ascension"/"One Breath") confusingly came after "File 1: The Unopened File" ("Anasazi"/"The Blessing Way"/"Paper Clip"). Although by the third season most mythology episodes were multi-part stories, important plot information relating to the conspiracy could still sometimes only be found in the unavailable standalone episodes, further confusing viewers of these releases. Also, "Colony"/"Endgame" and "Piper Maru"/"Apocrypha" were seemingly forgotten to be included in the series until long after many later episodes.
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Throughout most of the series run, the penultimate (last but one) episode of each season is usually themed as a pastiche, or loving tribute to an iconic piece of popular culture. For example, in one season, it was a clear reference to cult Paramount series "The Brady Bunch", and in season 11 the reference was the Hammer Films' horror film genre. Often it's blatant, and sometimes it's subtle.
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Fox executives originally wanted Pamela Anderson to play Dana Scully. They objected to Gillian Anderson, asking, "Where's the sex appeal?" Chris Carter recalled, "Even though Gillian's beautiful, she wasn't their idea of sexy. First, because they didn't understand what I was trying to do with the show. And she was an unknown, so that never helps."
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One of the first television series to switch to a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, beginning with its fifth season in 1997 at the insistence of Chris Carter to give the show a more cinematic feel, though FOX aired the episodes cropped to 4:3 while the original 16:9 versions were released on DVD. The series was remastered in 16:9 high definition in 2014, converting the first four seasons to widescreen as well, generally through cropping.
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In a 2015 interview with National Public Radio, composer Mark Snow said that when he was originally trying to compose the theme song, after he sent series creator Chris Carter a few ideas, which Carter rejected, Carter sent Snow the 1985 song "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths, saying, "I just love these guitars. Listen to this song, and see if it inspires something." Snow also said that he got the idea for the whistling element of the theme from an old Proteus sample called "Whistling Joe", but the whistle actually heard in the recording of the theme is bolstered by Snow's wife, who was a particularly strong whistler.
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The addition of the Skinner character in Tooms (1994) was fortuitous for Mitch Pileggi, as the part was to go to the actor who played Blevings but who was busy when this episode was to be shot, and it was given to Pileggi instead. His chemistry with Mulder, Scully, and CSM resulted in Skinner being made a permanent member of the cast of characters.
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According to X-Files creator Chris Carter, when he first pitched the idea for his series to 20th Century Fox, they declined because they weren't interested in a UFO drama series. After Carter was turned down by Columbia, Universal, Warner Bros. and Paramount, Fox reconsidered and ended up liking Carter's idea.
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Chris Carter wanted the show to end after the fifth season, when his original contract, as well as those of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny expired. Carter wanted to continue the story in a series of feature films, starting with The X Files (1998). The FOX Network, however, found demand for the show too high to cancel the series, so they instead mandated the film to fit in between seasons five and six of the show. Carter found writing seasons five and six as well as the film very difficult, as he had to craft a screenplay that would not require the audience to have seen the show to understand it, and episodes of the series that would tie in to the film, but not rely directly on the film's plot to make sense.
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The Lone Gunmen (Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, and Dean Haglund) from the original series were contacted about the possibility of appearing in an episode of the tenth season. Eventually they made a silent cameo in Babylon (2016) dressed like cowboys as part of a drug-induced hallucination of Mulder.
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At the conclusion of Season Seven, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson had yet to be signed for extra seasons, and most of the cast and crew assumed the show would end. Chris Carter wrote the episode "Requiem" to function as a series finale, but at the last minute the FOX Network decided to renew the show. Only Anderson agreed to return to the show full-time, though, and Carter created the characters of John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) to compensate for Duchovny's absence. Carter also retooled the series mythology to focus on government Super Soldiers and to eliminate plot threads regarding the alien invasion conspiracy, with the hope that it would revive interest in the show.
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When casting the role of the Cigarette Smoking Man, the producers had no idea the character would turn into a major role in the series. When the character became more prominent, they worried that William B. Davis, who had only been cast as an extra, would not be able to carry the part. As it turned out, Davis, who is one of the most respected acting teachers in Canada, impressed series creator Chris Carter so much that he made the Cigarette Smoking Man the main villain of the series.
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Scully's abduction during the second season was originally planned as a way of explaining Gillian Anderson's absence due to pregnancy. Later, series creator Chris Carter turned it into a vital plot point to the ongoing series mythology for the original run of the series until 2002 as well as in the revival of 2015 to 2016.
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Behind the Scenes (11)
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Comedian Kumail Nanjiani (known for shows such as Silicon Valley (2014) and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail (2014)), who has a role on the reboot of the series, is also a devoted X-Phile who hosts "The X-Files Files," a podcast on which he discusses and analyzes in detail each episode of the original series. During filming, he was chatting with Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in a production tent in the middle of the night when they asked why he wasn't recording the conversation for his podcast--so he did. At their urging, he asked them about which episodes of the show they thought were the worst. Anderson listed "Space," "Fire," the episode she first called "The Cat One--Los Lobos Tostitos" before Duchovny "corrected" her and said "Tesos Tostados" and Nanjiani provided the actual name of that episode, "Teso dos Bichos." Duchovny identified "the chupacabra episode" ("El Mundo Gira") as one of his worst.
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Although the Cigarette Smoking Man is obviously famous for chain smoking cigarettes, he only utters the word "cigarette" one time during the show's run. William B. Davis, who plays him, was a former smoker who had not smoked since 1973, twenty years before he was cast for the series. At the beginning of the show the cigarettes he smoked were real, until he became aware that he was having cravings for tobacco when not filming. At his request, the cigarettes used from then on were herbal.
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During the opening titles, the FBI badges of Mulder and Scully read "Federal Bureau of Justice, United States Department of Investigation." This alteration was necessary because making a fake FBI badge, even for a TV show, is illegal. The real badge says "Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice."
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According to Gillian Anderson, at the beginning of the series she was supposed to walk one or two steps behind Mulder in order to give him prominence. She clearly won her own position within a few episodes.
The X-Files (1993): Gillian Anderson at a table with microphonesImage: Wikimedia Commons · Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 - #048
In keeping with the original series run's practice of reusing Canadian character actors in multiple unrelated parts, Hiro Kanagawa, Christine Willes and Alex Diakun each appeared in one of the first three episodes of the long-delayed tenth season, which aired in 2016. Kanagawa played two different characters in the second and fourth seasons; Willes had the small but recurring role of F.B.I. Agent Karen E. Kosseff (Scully's therapist) in three different episodes; and Diakun played four different characters in the second and third seasons and the second movie.
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Props from Mulder's X-Files office are currently preserved and on display at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in Los Angeles. According to the museum, the famous "I Want to Believe" UFO poster from the office continually had to be replaced as copies kept disappearing from the set. The poster on display at the museum is reportedly one of the last available copies of the original set-used posters.
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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson attended the Golden Globes ceremony together in 1997 and were holding hands the whole night. Between them they won best lead actor and actress in a drama series. Anderson could be seen cursing backstage right after picking up her award while watching Duchovny thanking her when he picked up his; she had just realized that she had forgotten to thank him.
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When she returned to playing Scully for season ten, Gillian Anderson opted to wear a wig instead of dying her hair red, because it would most likely cause her hair to fall out due to having it dye back to blonde immediately (for her role on The Fall (2013)) after the shooting of the revival wrapped.
Characters & Cast (18)
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Unlike Scully, Mulder's religion was never made explicit on the show, but in The Official Guide to the X-Files (published after the second season), David Duchovny said that he would "consider Mulder Jewish until told otherwise." There were several subsequent references to Mulder's possible Judaism, including bigots assuming he is Jewish in the episodes "Kaddish" and "Drive".
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Despite their chemistry and the deliberately slow-burning sexual tension of their characters, both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have admitted that they were less close and bickered with each other due to the long hours of shooting in Vancouver during the show's initial run. After the show ended in 2002 they increased their natural rapport, and now consider themselves great friends and closer to each other than their spouses.
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Gillian Anderson on her chemistry with David Duchovny: "For whatever reason, there is this energy between us when we come together, which is very compelling and curious. Why do we have that? There's attraction on screen with other actors I have worked with, but it's not the same. What's different between David and me? I don't know."
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Gillian Anderson has declared several times that her favorite episode is "Bad Blood" and David Duchovny that his favorite ending in an episode is "The Post-Modern Prometheus", in which Mulder and Scully dance together. They also agree that the third season episode "Teso Dos Bichos" is the worst one, with Anderson calling it "that one episode about killer pussycats".
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Gillian Anderson has stated that she based her approach to the role of Dana Scully on Jodie Foster's performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Ironically, a contractual obligation to "The X-Files" prohibiting her from playing an F.B.I. agent in any other role prevented her from being offered the part of Clarice Starling in the "Silence" sequel, Hannibal (2001). Later, she joined the Hannibal (2013) series as Bedelia Du Maurier.
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So far, at the end of the tenth season, more than twenty-three years after the beginning of the series, it has never been revealed how and when Mulder and Scully became lovers. This is probably the most exaggerated effort ever in a series to maintain the UST between its characters. There are many theories in the fandom, but it is certain that they were already lovers at the end of season seven, in which Scully dresses in Mulder's bedroom while he is sleeping naked, and a few episodes later she becomes pregnant with their child; even the first time somebody speaks about it explicitly is in Trust No 1 (2002).
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The Cigarette Smoking Man ends up being Mulder's biological father, but we never really know how and when Mulder finds out. He has suspected it at least twice since the fourth season; in fact, the only time we see the Cigarette Smoking Man telling him is in The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (1999) and in a conversation that happens in Mulder's dream. Spender also affirms it in the same episode. Scully seems to be sure of this after season six, because it's confirmed by Scully, in William (2002) after doing DNA tests on Jeffrey Spender, that Mulder is Spender's half-brother, and it's established that Mulder is the Cigarette Smoking Man 's son in The Truth (2002).
Easter Eggs & References (22)
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Scully's family has a thing for "Moby Dick": Scully is called Starbuck by her father, her dog's name is Queequeg, and she calls her father Captain Ahab. In 2010, Gillian Anderson, who played Scully, appeared in a version of the novel (Moby Dick (2011)) that also starred Ethan Hawke, Donald Sutherland, and William Hurt.
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In the Pilot (1993), when Scully is interviewed by Division Chief Scott Blevins (Charles Cioffi) to see if she knows Fox Mulder, she replies that she didn't know him directly, but by his reputation as the F.B.I.'s analyst and his work in the capture in 1988 of a killer named Monty Props. It's the only reference about Props made in the entire series. Props was created after Garret Jacob Hobbs, a serial killer only mentioned in Thomas Harris' novel "Red Dragon" (who was shot to death by Will Graham). Harris' universe was a strong influence in the creation of the series.
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Often, throughout the series, Mulder asks for help from three conspiracy theorists named Byers, Langley and Frohike. They call themselves "The Lone Gunmen" and print a conspiracy paper of the same name. This is a nod to their disbelief in the "Lone Gunman" theory, which is the official explanation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which states that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only one involved in the assassination and that only he fired the shots that killed Kennedy.
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During season 9 of the show, the opening credits included a shot of a list of "F.B.I. Contacts, Witnesses, and Contributors." The names on the list were actually the screen names of posters on the official "X-Files" message board and changed with each new episode that season. Other names on the list were anagrams of characters on the show.
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In the series, Mulder's first and middle names are Fox William. A man named William Fox founded the Fox Theater chain in California and Fox Film Studios. That studio merged with 20th Century Pictures to become 20th Century Fox, the production company of and owners of the network that televised The X-Files.
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Despite their chemistry and the deliberately slow-burning sexual tension of their characters, both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have admitted that they were less close and bickered with each other due to the long hours of shooting in Vancouver during the show's initial run. After the show ended in 2002 they increased their natural rapport, and now consider themselves great friends and closer to each other than their spouses.
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When Agents Miller and Einstein are first introduced in the tenth season, there are several jokes and references that indicate that they are meant to be analogues of Mulder and Scully's younger selves, including Miller's credulity in contrast with Einstein's skepticism and Einstein's red hair and science-related name. The name "Miller" is also a clue to this; the last name "Mulder" originally comes from a Dutch word that means "miller" (that is, a person who runs a grain-processing mill).
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In season four, episode seven, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996), Cigarette Smoking Man's real name was revealed to be C.G.B. Spender, with no explanation about the meaning of the first three initials. A possible theory pointed to Carter Goodwin Bowman Spender, after the last names of Chris Carter, R.W. Goodwin and Rob Bowman, creator and two of the most important producers of the series. However, it has been proven to be untrue after season eleven, episode one, My Struggle III (2018), where his entire name was finally divulged: Carl Gerhard Busch Spender.
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Recurring use of the numbers: 1013 - Ten Thirteen is the name of Chris Carter's production company; his birthday is October 13, 1956. 1013 is also the silo number that Alex Krycek is locked into in season three, and 10:13 is the time when some episodes start (or a scene that's dated at this time). The number 1121 also appears often; it is creator Chris Carter's wife, Dori's, birthday.
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Almost every time Skinner goes to Mulder's apartment, someone pulls a gun on him: * In End Game (1995), Mulder aims a gun after Skinner enters the apartment, suspecting him to be the Bounty Hunter. * Later in the same episode, minutes before entering the apartment, he gets in a fist fight with X in the elevator, ending with X pulling out a gun. * The Blessing Way (1995) ends with Scully bringing Skinner to the apartment where she pulls her gun on him, believing he intended to kill her. * Nisei (1995) features a scene where Mulder unexpectedly finds Skinner in his ransacked apartment, and draws his gun. * In Field Trip (1999), Scully has a spore-induced dream in which Skinner and other friends are in Mulder's apartment for Mulder's funeral. Later in the episode, Mulder shoots the dream-Skinner to prove that they are still dreaming. This is the only episode where the gun being drawn occurs outside of Mulder's apartment building, but both scenes are part of a hallucination. Among the few exceptions are: * In Redux (1997), Skinner confronts Scully in the hallway outside Mulder's apartment early in the episode. However, Skinner is not shown to have actually entered the apartment in the episode, just the hallway. * In Two Fathers (1999), Skinner meets covertly with Mulder and Scully inside Mulder's apartment, where they fill him in on the alien hybrid plan and divulge who Spender's father is. * In Sein und Zeit (2000), Skinner knocks at Mulder's apartment the morning after Mulder has a breakdown over his mother, and Scully answers the door, having been there all night to comfort him. The scene shows all three in the doorway, though Skinner is not shown entering the apartment.
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In The X-Files: Re-Opened (2015), the documentary before season ten, Chris Carter describes Mulder's and Scully's relationship as "platonic" for nine years, even though there was an obvious attraction between them, were together on the run, lived together for years as lovers and had a child together.
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In "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" (2016, season ten, episode three), Scully jokes to Mulder that she is immortal, but it is not a joke. In "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1995, season three, episode four), Mulder and Scully meet Clyde Bruckman (Peter Boyle), a life insurance salesman who, after rock star Buddy Holly's death in a 1959 airplane crash, became so obsessed with death that he acquired the ability to see when everyone is going to die. At one point, Scully questions Bruckman about her death, and he simply answers, "You don't." Eventually, in "Tithonus" (1999, season six, episode ten), Scully meets Alfred Fellig (Geoffrey Lewis), a freelance crime photographer who is 149 years old and became immortal decades earlier when he was dying in a hospital. Fellig saw Death come directly for him, but he rejected her, asking that another die instead of him. Death killed a nurse who assisted him, and Fellig lived looking for Death in order to die, being capable of knowing when a person will die and photographing the corpse trying to capture Death in a photo. At the end of the episode, Scully and Fellig are shot by an assassin wanted by Mulder and Scully. She sees Death go for her, and Fellig asks her to turn her head to avoid dying. Fellig dies, but Scully recovers completely in the hospital, effectively taking on Fellig's immortality. Scully's immortality also appears in "My Struggle II" (2016, season ten, episode six), after she finds that she is immune to a lethal plague that is isolating the world.
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Career & Awards (4)
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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson attended the Golden Globes ceremony together in 1997 and held hands the whole night. Between them they won Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Anderson could be seen cursing backstage right after picking up her award while watching Duchovny thank her when he picked up his; she had just realized that she had forgotten to thank him.
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Several news sources reported that Gillian Anderson was originally offered only half of David Duchovny's salary to return as Dana Scully for season ten. "The Daily Beast" interviewed Anderson about this, and she said, "I'm surprised that more (interviewers) haven't brought that up because it's the truth." Anderson said of the pay disparity, first disclosed in "The Hollywood Reporter", "Especially in this climate of women talking about the reality of (unequal pay) in this business, I think it's important that it gets heard and voiced. It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly. I worked really hard toward that and finally got somewhere with it. Even in interviews in the last few years, people have said to me, 'I can't believe that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.' And my response always was, 'That was then, this is now.' And then it happened again! I don't even know what to say about it . . . It is . . . sad . . . It is sad." They eventually received equal pay for the series.
Life & Family (10)
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Almost all of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson's children worked on the show. Piper Anderson-Klotz, Gillian's daughter, worked in the art department in seasons ten and eleven. Her little brothers, Oscar and Felix, worked as extras in This (2018), also in the eleventh season. We can see them on the bus in which Mulder and Scully travel. West Duchovny had a small but important part in My Struggle IV (2018), the last episode of the eleventh season, but David's younger kid, Miller, never acted on the show.
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Many of the cast's real-life partners worked on the show: Perrey Reeves, David Duchovny's girlfriend for two years, played his lover in "3". Maggie Wheeler and Lucy Liu, both of whom dated Duchovny, appeared in "Born Again" and "Hell Money", respectively. Even his former wife, Téa Leoni, played herself in "Hollywood A.D." Gillian Anderson dated Rodney Rowland, who appeared in "Never Again", for over a year. She also dated Adrian Hughes, who played one of the Peacocks in "Home". She was married to, and had a daughter with, Clyde Klotz, the show's Art Director, after they met at the beginning of the series. Mitch Pileggi met his wife, Arlene Pileggi, on the set of the show--she played his secretary and was Gillian Anderson's double. Robert Patrick's wife played his character John Doggett's wife in the nineth season.
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When Gillian Anderson found out she was pregnant only a few months after the show began and it started to become a huge success, she had told David Duchovny before she told the producers, and they were all extremely supportive, even going so far as to find a story arc that would keep her in the show until shortly before she gave birth. Series creator Chris Carter would not replace her with another actress. His reward was being named Anderson's daughter's godfather.
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Piper Anderson-Klotz, Gillian Anderson's daughter, was literally raised on the set of this show, so when she saw a monster or something that would scare any other child, she used to be curious and ask if she could touch it. Regarding this situation, David Duchovny used to say he was lucky not to be the one who would have to pay for her therapist. On the contrary, when Gillian wanted her younger sons to see her in the series, she showed them Bad Blood (1998), one of the most comic episodes, and it only gave them nightmares.
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Piper Anderson-Klotz, Gillian Anderson's daughter, was working in the Art Department during the production of seasons ten and eleven. Piper was born during the second season of the series and her unexpected birth was the reason the show's writers devised Scully's abduction, which went on to become one of the most important mythological arcs in the original series. The third season episode Piper Maru (1996) was also named after her.
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