Article: Agent of change: Gillian Anderson, who found fulfilling work in England after 'The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries.

Byline: Hal Boedeker

Jan. 21--PASADENA, Calif. -- In her first television role since The X-Files, Gillian Anderson plays a Victorian lady struggling to conceal her past. Anderson, however, speaks bluntly about the big secret behind the PBS promotion of Bleak House, which starts Sunday. Masterpiece Theatre bills her as the star of this Charles Dickens epic, but that tactic is misleading. "It's definitely, definitely not my show and my story," Anderson says. "I know it was such an ensemble. And also Dickens did not write Lady Dedlock as the central character."

Even so, Anderson, who calls the attention flattering, has joined the sales pitch by ...

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