Copyright 1994 News World Communications, Inc.  

                             The Washington Times



                    January 6, 1994, Thursday, Final Edition



SECTION: Part C; METROPOLITAN TIMES; ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT; CHANNEL

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HEADLINE: Skepticism all an act for ' X-Files'  agent



BYLINE: Buzz McCain; SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES



 BODY:





Two TV scoops today, both from Gillian Anderson, star of Fox's

"The X-Files. " 



First, she's never been to FBI headquarters - in fact, she's

never been to Washington - which is disappointing because Miss

Anderson plays an FBI agent who often appears in scenes set in

the J.  Edgar Hoover Building. 



Second - and this is going to break a lot of " X-Files"  fans'

hearts - the comely 25-year-old is married.  She tied the knot

New Year's Day with a guy she won't name after an engagement that

lasted "shorter than a month but longer than a week," which is

all we could get out of her. 



Miss Anderson plays Agent Dana Scully in the series (Friday

nights at 9 on Fox), in which she and her partner, Fox Mulder

(David Duchovny), attempt to solve federal cases that involve

some aspect of the paranormal. 



Scully is the straight-laced, rational skeptic while Mulder is

the true believer in psychics, UFOs, ghosts and other Twilight

Zone inhabitants.  In real life, Miss Anderson says, "I am one of

the least straight-laced people you will ever meet.  I'm a

full-fledged believer.  When I was in Hawaii, I was always

looking at the sky, looking for them." 



She doesn't specify what "them" she was looking for, but she was

in Hawaii to marry this guy - an art director for a certain

creepy Fox TV show - on a golf course. 



A golf course? 



"We kept it very, very small," she says.  "In fact, it was just

the two of us and a Buddhist priest on the 17th hole of this golf

course in Hawaii." 



Miss Anderson is thrilled that "The  X-Files"  has found a loyal

audience, small as it may be.  Most of the people who would be

interested in a program of this nature are usually out having

paranormal experiences of their own on Fridays at 9. "I know,"

Miss Anderson sighs.  "Everyone I know who watches it says they

tape it and watch it on Saturday mornings." 



She will see tomorrow's episode for the first time "after my

husband tapes it and I get home from work at 3 in the morning."

It's an atypical episode featuring Scully as the lead character. 

The bereaved agent is manipulated by a psychic and psychotic

death-row slayer (the ultracreepy Brad Dourif). 



Although she's never been to Washington, she says she would be

thrilled by an invitation to visit the Hoover Building. 



"I would love a tour of the bureau headquarters," she says. 

"That's my New Year's resolution, to tour the FBI building."