Gillian Anderson turns heads in stunning white gown ahead of Paris Fashion Week


The ‘X-Files’ alum stole the show in a glamorous sleeveless and backless white gown ahead of the first day of Paris Fashion Week.


Actress Gillian Anderson is also trying to break the early perimenopause taboo© John Salangsang/Golden Globes 20
Nicola ConvilleFeatures Writer
September 29, 2025
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Actress Gillian Anderson looked radiant in an elegant white gown as she left her hotel in Paris on Sunday, ahead of the first day of Fashion Week. The star, 57, looked effortlessly stylish in the sleeveless number, which perfectly enhanced her toned figure. She smiled warmly at onlookers on her way out, teaming her outfit with nude open-toe heels, a smart grey handbag and a pair of dark sunglasses. Paris Fashion Week is set to kick off on Monday September 29, featuring designers such as Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Givenchy and Céline, who will be showcasing their Spring/Summer 2026 collections.

Gillian’s career has been going from strength to strength of late. She is the star of upcoming show Trespasses, a new four-part drama series set in Northern Ireland in 1975.

Channel 4’s synopsis reads: "1975, in a town outside Belfast. Whilst working one night behind the bar of her family pub, serving a mixed crowd including the locally stationed soldiers, Catholic schoolteacher Cushla meets Michael, an older Protestant married man, who often defends IRA suspects and is friends with cultured Bohemians who enrage and intrigue Cushla."

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Gillian Anderson leaving her hotel before Paris Fashion Week

Gillian, who plays Gina, leads the cast. She appears alongside Lola Petticrew, 29, as Cushla, Tom Cullen, 40, as Michael, Martin McCann, 42, as Eamonn and Gerard McCarthy, 44, as Jim.

The actress also recently appeared in the movie The Salt Path, based on the novel by Raynor Winn. 

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A vision in white

Speaking at a preview screening, Gillian exclusively told HELLO! why her casting as Raynor, one half of the husband-wife walking duo, was so important to her, and how age features in the film. 

"The fact that two people, our age, their age, can do a distance like that is something to be proud of. I [like] the fact that they cast us age appropriately. And also that people our age still are in love and have sex." 

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Gillian's backless dress turned heads

Both Gillian and Jason told HELLO! who they would bring with them should they ever walk the coast path featured in the film, with Jason opting to bring his wife of 24 years Emma Hewitt, while Gillian said she would bring her three children, Piper, Oscar and Felix. 

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in The X-Files

Director Marianne Elliott told HELLO! of the casting: "I met Gillian because I knew she loved the book, and that told me quite a lot. And then when we met and talked about it for quite a long time, it felt like it had very personal resonances for her. I talked to her about the way that I wanted it to be done, and the way I wanted Raynor to be, and she was really up for it.  

"The thing is, she's a serious actress, so she may have been cast a lot in glamorous, sex idol roles, but that's not all the things that she [can] do. I think she was really keen to do something different."

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