Dana Scully

Dana Scully
FBI investigator
from The X-Files
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully
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Special Agent Dana Scully, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (portrayed by Gillian Anderson), is the female protagonist of The X-Files.

At the very beginning of the series, she was affected to the "X-Files" -- cases dealing with weird or unexplainable activity -- to debunk Agent Fox Mulder and bring a more skeptical approach to the X-Files.

She is a scientist, who was trained as a doctor, and she often performs autopsies during the course of her investigations.

Quotes

From "Never Again" (episode 4x13, four years into the series...)

Scully: "Why don't I have a desk?"

Mulder: "What do you mean?"

Notes

An updated Susan Calvin, in her rationality and scientific approach, and to some extent in her untouchability. Yet, portrayed the human cost of those choices.

Her name has passed into pop culture as a verb, which has notably been used by Buffy Summers. "To Scully" roughly means: to express incredulity, to question, doubt, and/or debunk.

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