The X-Files/Trivia


 * Fake American: Gillian Anderson was born in America to American citizens, but she moved to England when she was two and didn't move back until she was eleven, and by then her speech patterns had been set. She had to work to lose it when she went into acting, and if you pay attention to the early episodes of The X-Files it slips through at times. Now that she's moved back to England, she's got the accent back in full-force. Her American accent she acquired in her teenage years comes back whenever she's interviewed by an American reporter.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Many familiar faces have popped up in the show's history:
 * Brad Dourif as a supposedly psychic serial killer on Death Row in "Beyond the Sea".
 * Felicity Huffman is in "Ice," with John Connor's step-dad as her partner.
 * Cary Elwes plays Agent Reyes' ex-love interest and jerk Brad Folmer during season 9.
 * B.D. Wong plays an American-Chinese police officer in "Hell Money".
 * Which also featured Lucy Liu.
 * Terry O'Quinn appeared three different times as three different characters: once in "Aubrey", once in "Fight the Future", and finally as the mysterious man in "Trustno1".
 * Luke Wilson plays a sheriff vampire (who may or may not have bucked teeth) in the episode "Bad Blood".
 * John Finn had a recurring role as Michael Kritschgau over several seasons.
 * Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin played ghost lovers in the episode "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas".
 * M. Emmett Walsh also appeared in "The Unnatural".
 * Peter Boyle plays a psychic who can only predict people's deaths in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". He won an Emmy for "Outstanding Guest Actor" for that episode, and was his only win out of 8 nominations, including 5 from Everybody Loves Raymond.
 * Mimi Rogers was to become the most hated character on the show when she played Diana Fowley during seasons 5-7.
 * Michael Buble makes an uncredited appearance as a sailor in "Apocrypha" and "Piper Maru."
 * Jayne Atkinson (most know her from her role as Erin Strauss on Criminal Minds) played Willa Ambrose in "Fearful Symmetry."
 * That one also had The Last Starfighter.
 * Tony Shalhoub in "Soft Light."
 * Tobin Bell in "Brand X."
 * Seth Green in "Deep Throat."
 * William Sanderson in "Blood." In the same episode, John Cygan (Canderous Ordo of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) plays Sheriff Spencer.
 * Bruce Campbell plays a demon trying to have a child in "Terms of Endearment."
 * Kolchak creator Darren Mc Gavin, oddly, does not appear as the character he created, but as Arthur Dales, the agent who ran the X-Files in the fifties.
 * Tony Todd is the villain of the week in "Sleepless."
 * Bokeem Woodbine, Ken Foree and J.T. Walsh appear in "The List."
 * R Lee Ermey and Kenneth Welsh in "Revelations."
 * Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi play a pair of high school slackers in "D.P.O."
 * Donal Logue shows up as a Jerkass fellow federal agent in "Squeeze."
 * Ryan Reynolds has a small part at the beginning of "Syzygy."
 * Kurtwood Smith (Red Foreman from That 70s Show or Clarence Boddicker if you prefer) is Agent Bill Patterson in "Grotesque."
 * Amanda Tapping appears as the victim of the week in "Avatar".
 * A. J. Buckley as a teenaged stoner in War of the Coprophages and Quagmire.
 * Andrew Robinson as Dr. Detweiler in Alpha.
 * Casey Biggs as an oil rig worker in Vienen.
 * Adam Baldwin as Knowle Rohrer in the last few seasons.
 * A very young Jewel Staite plays a kidnap victim in Oubliette.
 * Shia LaBoeuf as the Littlest Hepatitis Patient in "The Goldberg Variation".
 * A young Andrea Libman plays the possessed little girl in "Born Again". You'll never watch Madeline or My Little Pony the same way again.
 * Shout-Out: Chris Carter named Scully for longtime Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.
 * In one episode a character even says something like "Scully. Like that baseball announcer."
 * Similarly, Agent Doggett is named for Scully's longtime partner in the booth, Jerry Doggett.
 * In one episode, a prostitute who gets murdered is called Holly McClane.
 * "The War of the Coprophages" has characters referencing Planet of the Apes several times. Also, it takes place in the town of Miller's Grove, a twisting of Grover's Mill, where the Martians first land in Orson Welles' radio version of The War of the Worlds.
 * "Home" has Sheriff Andy Taylor, with an assistant named Barney.
 * One episode features an ill-fated nuclear power plant employee named Homer.
 * A conversation in "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" is a recreation of the briefing scene in Apocalypse Now. Also, CSM talks about how life is like a box of chocolates, although his view of said box is more pessimistic than Forrest Gump's.
 * Mulder's apartment number (42) is perfect for a man obsessed with aliens and the ultimate truth.
 * What Could Have Been: Lou Diamond Phillips, Hart Bochner and Bruce Campbell were each finalists for the role of John Doggett.
 * Johnny Cash was almost a Man In Black in "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"!