Gillian Anderson performed a British prime minister on TV, however in actual life, she’s simply an actress.
The Crown alum, 55 — who portrayed the late PM Margaret Thatcher on the critically-acclaimed Netflix drama — was mistakenly recognized as politician Gillian Keegan by ITV journalist Robert Peston on Friday, July 5.
Keegan, 56, served as Secretary of State for Training from 2022 to 2024 as a member of Parliament. She misplaced her seat within the authorities after the UK’s latest prime minister, Keir Starmer, took energy yesterday.
A fan posted on X Friday that Peston, 64, “simply introduced on ITV that even Gillian Anderson has misplaced her seat. #GeneralElection2024 #GillianKeegan.”
Anderson then jokingly responded again: “Fired?! I give up!”
Different customers chuckled on the alternate, with some followers quipping that the X-Recordsdata alum can be an ideal political determine.
“However I’d positively vote for you for those who did stand!” a fan stated. “Oh, you’d win the seat. Little question,” one other individual wrote. Another person chimed in: “Properly, I voted for you, Gillian.”
Anderson’s flip as Thatcher, who died in 2013, in season 4 of The Crown garnered her a Golden Globe for Finest Supporting Actress in a TV Collection, in addition to an Emmy for Excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Collection in 2021.
The Crown adopted the royal household’s trials and tribulations from the Nineteen Fifties till the mid-2000s, stopping at King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s 2005 marriage ceremony.
Down with The Crown? The Netflix collection has sparked controversy over time for its embellished tales of the British royal household — and the behind-the-scenes drama is simply as juicy because the Emmy-winning story traces. Season 1 of the drama began streaming in 2016 with Claire Foy because the late Queen Elizabeth II and […]
Anderson performed the “Iron Woman” throughout her tenure as prime minister from 1979 till 1990 on the present.
The Scoop actress informed Leisure Tonight in March that though The Crown ended its six-season run final yr, she’s comfortable that the collection didn’t contact fashionable instances.
“Oh, no. I believe it in all probability ended on the proper spot,” Anderson defined. “It was getting too near current day. It’s a lot simpler when it was additional up to now, and I believe folks didn’t have, essentially, a direct relationship with the folks on the display.”
King Charles and Queen Camilla Chris Jackson-WPA Pool/Getty Photographs
She added that the present didn’t want to the touch the latest most cancers battles of Kate Middleton and Charles, 75.
The Princess of Wales, 42, revealed she had an undisclosed type of most cancers in March in a video assertion, whereas the monarch introduced his personal well being struggles following a prostate examination in February.
“It’s a second the place we perceive they’ve requested for a little bit of peace and quiet round what they’re experiencing and it appears like that’s the least we are able to do,” Anderson informed ET. “I believe on this occasion with this newest double-whammy of reports the least that folks can do is give them a little bit of a break and let the headlines cool down for them, to course of this because the human beings that they really are.”
