Don’t panic but Gillian Anderson believes that the next season of The X-Files will be her last&#8230

The actress has played FBI agent Dana Scully in 10 series since September 1993, but has teased the 11th season could actually be her last.

When the 49-year-old was asked if she expected to appear in any more episodes after the 11th series, she replied: ‘No, no, I think this will be it for me.’ The show’s forthcoming series is the second season of its comeback after returning to the television screen in January 2016 following a 15-year break, and it is due to air next year; the actress agreed to do more episodes because she felt as though the story had more to give. ‘It felt like it wasn’t over. It didn’t feel like we necessarily deliver everything the fans were expecting of us last time, and so it was that,’ she explained.

However, The Fall actress really didn’t expect to return to her role opposite David Duchovny, who plays FBI agent Fox Mulder, after last year’s comeback series. She revealed: ‘I thought I was done [after season 10].’ This comes after Gillian slammed the show’s lack of female directors in June.