Just out of medical school at Stanford University she was recruited by the FBI she accepted the agency's offer of employment because she felt she could distinguish herself there. Her undergraduate thesis was titled Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation. Scully attended the University of Maryland, and in 1986 received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. As a young girl, Scully's favorite book was Moby-Dick and she came to nickname her father " Ahab" from the book, and in return, he called her " Starbuck". Dana Scully grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and later in San Diego, California. Scully's father was a navy captain, who died of a heart attack in early January 1994. She has an older brother, Bill Jr., an older sister, Melissa, and a younger brother, Charles, who is never seen on the show except in flashbacks. Davis) and Margaret Scully ( Sheila Larken), into a close-knit Catholic family with Irish ancestry. Dana Katherine Scully was born on February 23, 1964, in Annapolis, Maryland, to William ( Don S. The eleventh season marked Anderson's final time portraying the character.
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The episodes she does not appear in are " 3", " Zero Sum", " Unusual Suspects," " Travelers," and " The Gift" (excluding archive footage). Scully has appeared in all but five episodes of The X-Files, and in the 20th Century Fox films The X-Files, released in 1998, and The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released ten years later. She later on becomes a "believer" after Mulder's abduction at the end of season seven. In contrast to Mulder's credulous "believer" character, Scully is the skeptic for the first seven seasons, choosing to base her beliefs on what science can prove. In 2002, Scully left government employment, and in 2008 she began working as a surgeon in Our Lady of Sorrows, a private Catholic hospital – where she stayed for seven years, until rejoining the FBI.
to investigate unsolved cases labeled " X-Files".
In the television series, they work out of a cramped basement office at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. Scully is an FBI agent and a medical doctor ( M.D.), partnered with fellow Special Agent Fox Mulder for seasons one to seven and seasons ten and eleven, and with John Doggett in the eighth and ninth seasons.
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is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction- supernatural television series The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson.