While we know now that Gillian Anderson has had a long arc to her career, she shared with Vanity Fair that she didn't think she'd break into anything other than Dana Scully of The X-Files. "Oh, what is the point," she said, "of continuing to put your blood, sweat, and tears, your entire soul into something if, you know, it's just going to be dashed."
"I really thought," Anderson added, "for a while that as soon as my contract was done on The X-Files that that would potentially be the end of Gillian the actress." Well, hindsight is 20/20 and we all know, Anderson included, that "Gillian the actress" has had a vibrant and long career. So what has this done for her finances? A lot.
Anderson has a net worth of $40 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. And there's been a teachable moment in each of these steps. "Every role along the way has taught me something," Anderson told Vanity Fair. "And if you take away any of those [roles], there would have been a lesson learned there that I would be lacking."
