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She spent years asking herself the question out loud. Now, at 58, Gillian Anderson has an answer.<\/p>\n
The X-Files and Sex Education star told The Australian this week that she identifies as pansexual \u2014 attracted to people regardless of gender. It\u2019s a word she\u2019d circled for years without quite landing on.<\/p>\n
A Question She Couldn\u2019t Shake<\/p>\n
Back in 2024, speaking to The New Yorker, Anderson admitted she wasn\u2019t sure which label fit. She wondered aloud whether she was pansexual or bisexual, unwilling to claim an identity that didn\u2019t feel earned.<\/p>\n
That uncertainty wasn\u2019t new. Anderson has spoken before about relationships with women, including a same-sex romance she kept hidden during high school. She\u2019s described that early relationship as something she had to hide out of fear.<\/p>\n
The Interview That Changed the Answer<\/p>\n
Speaking with journalist Nikki Gemmell for The Australian, published September 10, Anderson didn\u2019t hedge this time. She said simply that she\u2019s \u201cpan\u201d \u2014 pansexual \u2014 drawn to people across the gender spectrum.<\/p>\n
The timing isn\u2019t random. Anderson is promoting her new book, More, a follow-up to her 2024 bestseller Want. Both collect anonymous accounts from women about desire, sex and identity \u2014 work she says grew directly out of playing sex therapist Jean Milburn on Sex Education.<\/p>\n
Why She Waited<\/p>\n
Anderson has been careful, publicly, not to overstate her past relationships with women or claim a label just for the sake of having one. That caution is part of what makes this moment land differently. This isn\u2019t a rebrand. It\u2019s the end of a years-long process of figuring out the right word.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s currently linked to screenwriter Peter Morgan, but has made clear that being with a man doesn\u2019t erase or define the rest of who she\u2019s attracted to.<\/p>\n
What We Know<\/p>\n
Anderson, 58, told The Australian on September 10 that she identifies as pansexual.
\nIn 2024, she publicly questioned whether \u201cpansexual\u201d or \u201cbisexual\u201d better described her.
\nShe has previously discussed a hidden same-sex relationship from her teenage years.
\nHer new book, More, follows 2024\u2019s Want, both built from women\u2019s anonymous accounts of desire.
\nShe credits her Sex Education role with helping her speak more openly about sexuality.
\nShe is currently in a relationship with screenwriter Peter Morgan.<\/p>\n
Why This Matters<\/p>\n
For a lot of people \u2014 especially those over 40 \u2014 sexuality doesn\u2019t arrive as a single lightning-bolt moment. It\u2019s a slow, sometimes decades-long process of language catching up to feeling. Anderson\u2019s story resonates because she didn\u2019t rush it, and she didn\u2019t perform certainty she didn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
At a time when public figures face pressure to define themselves quickly and permanently, Anderson\u2019s path \u2014 years of \u201cmaybe,\u201d followed by a clear answer \u2014 offers something different: proof that it\u2019s okay to take your time.<\/p>\n
She said it herself, almost matter-of-factly: some things just take longer to name than others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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