Gillian Anderson's Ex Files
The truth is out there. Her husband outta here.
After just 16 months of marriage, X-Files star Gillian Anderson has separated from her documentary filmmaker husband, according to a statement from the couple's lawyers.
"Gillian Anderson and her husband, Julian Ozanne, are saddened to announce that their marriage is at an end and they are in the process of separating," read the statement released by Schillings Law Firm late Friday. "At this difficult time they request that their privacy is respected. There will be no further comment."
Anderson, 37, and Ozanne, 42, a Kenya-born photojournalist, married at a friend's beach house on Lamu's Shelly Island, just off the Kenyan coast, on Dec. 29, 2004.
They had lived in London with Anderson's daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Piper.
Anderson, best known for her Emmy-winning role as Agent Dana Scully on Fox's paranormal cult drama, was previously wed to movie art director Clyde Klotz. This was Ozanne's first marriage.
According to London's Daily Mirror, the couple met at the dinner party of a mutual friend, with Anderson's first impression of Ozanne being that he was "obnoxious." She reportedly told the paper that she kept running into the filmmaker around town as "fondness developed into something else entirely."
The actress had been due to star in a benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues in England over the weekend, but pulled out after news of her split broke.
The fiery-haired thesp recently received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress for her role as Lady Deadlock in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.
Per reports, Anderson is apparently going from X-Files to XXX-files. She'll next star in the explicit revenge thriller Straightheads as one half of a couple who embarks on a violent rampage after becoming the victim of a horrific attack.
Anderson also recently revealed plans to return to a more familiar role.
"David Duchovny and I and creator Chris Carter are determined to do another," Anderson said of the long-gestating second big-screen X-Files outing. "Hopefully, by the time we actually do it, whenever that is, people will still give a damn."
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