FBI Special Agent Dana Scully, M.D. is a
fictional character in the
Fox science fiction-
supernatural television series
The X-Files, played by
Gillian Anderson. Scully is an
FBI agent, partnered with fellow Special Agent
Fox Mulder for the first seven, and the tenth, seasons, and with
John Doggett in the eighth and ninth seasons. In the television series, they work out of a cramped basement office at
FBI headquarters in
Washington, D.C. to investigate unsolved cases labeled "
X-Files". In 2002, Scully left government employment, and in 2008 she began working as a surgeon in
Our Lady of Sorrows, a private
Catholic hospital - where she stayed for seven years, until rejoining the FBI. In contrast to Mulder's credulous "believer" character, Scully is the skeptic for the first seven seasons, choosing to base her beliefs on what science can prove. She later on becomes a "believer" after
Mulder's abduction at the end of season seven.