Bleak House: Who's Who

Lady Honoria Dedlock Lady Honoria Dedlock
The charming, self-controlled wife of Sir Leicester Dedlock. She has a secret past.

Best known as agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, Gillian Anderson was once named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Her other credits include the films Playing By Heart, The House Of Mirth and Tristram Shandy.

Anderson has appeared frequently on London's West End. Her debut was in the play, What The Night Is For, a performance for which she won the whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Best Actress Award. In 2004, she starred in Rebecca Gilman's play, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, which ran for two months at London's Royal Court Theatre.

Born in Chicago, her family moved to Puerto Rico when she was a baby. After 15 months there, they then moved to London, where she spent nine years of her childhood, growing up first in Stamford Hill and later in Crouch End. She returned to live in London in 2002, after making the final series of The X-Files.

She's currently married to filmmaker Julian Ozanne.