AGE: 32

OCCUPATION: Actress.

CAREER DUES: Eight seasons as the skeptic’s skeptic Dana Scully on TV’s global smash The X-Files; also, impressive turns in little-seen films The Mighty and Playing by Heart.

WHY SHE ROCKS: Because she takes the role of Lily Bart in the new adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and runs with it. Because the way she shows the roiling layers of morality and melancholy beneath the porcelain exterior is why we go to the movies. Because we had no idea.

HIDDEN TALENT: “I can disappear. I can walk down a street and not be there.”

DREAM ROLE: A Jedi. “I would love to be the queen of all mudderfuckin’ Jedis!”

LIP: “I used to take myself very seriously, and now it’s all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something’s a big deal for us, it’s only become a big deal in the space between our ears.”