Gillian Anderson pilot will center on a conspiracy involving Washington's most powerful figures
Will 鈥�X-Files鈥� star Gillian Anderson be returning to television?
According to , the actress will star in an untitled pilot for NBC, in which she will play a CEO named Meg Fitch whose daughter and daughter鈥檚 classmates are taken prisoner. The show itself, which will be produced and written by Rand Ravich with Far Shariat, will center on a vast conspiracy that comes to involve some of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C.
Actress Rachael Taylor of ABC鈥檚 鈥�666 Park Avenue鈥� will star on the show as Susie Dunn, an FBI agent who is Meg鈥檚 sister and who is in charge of the operation to find her niece and her niece鈥檚 classmates. Before the kidnapping, Fitch and Dunn were estranged because of a secret that lies between them.
Taylor also starred on the ABC remake of 鈥淐harlie鈥檚 Angels鈥� as Abby Sampson, one of the titular Angels, and guest-starred on the ABC medical drama 鈥淕rey鈥檚 Anatomy鈥� as Dr. Lucy Fields.
Ravich created and wrote the NBC series 鈥�Life,鈥� which starred actor Damian Lewis 辫谤别-鈥�Homeland鈥� as a police officer who gets back on the job after having been mistakenly sent to jail. Shariat served as an executive producer on "Life."
鈥淏attle Force鈥� actress Stevie Lynn Jones has also signed on to Ravich and Shariat's NBC pilot, according to TV Guide.
Anderson starred in the 2007 film version of 鈥淭he X-Files,鈥� titled 鈥淭he X-Files: I Want to Believe,鈥� and signed on for an arc on the upcoming NBC show 鈥淗annibal,鈥� which will center on the 鈥�Silence of the Lambs鈥� killer Hannibal Lecter. She also appeared in a BBC miniseries of the Charles Dickens novel 鈥淏leak House鈥� and in a miniseries, also by the BBC, of 鈥淕reat Expectations.鈥� She recently starred as a detective on the British series 鈥淭he Fall,鈥� which will air on the BBC.聽
On 鈥淗annibal,鈥� the actress will play a therapist named Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier who serves as doctor to Hannibal Lecter himself.
