X-Files star Gillian Anderson's joy as gay sister is allowed to marry her partner

PUBLISHED: 20:17 EST, 14 December 2013 | UPDATED: 21:13 EST, 14 December 2013

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X-Files star Gillian Anderson is thrilled that her gay sister Zoe, 30, will now be able to marry her long-time partner in their home city of Chicago, which will allow gay marriage for the first time from June.

‘I’m all for gay marriage. My sister married her wife last year here and I was obviously at the wedding,’ the 46-year-old actress, said at the Live Letters event in Notting Hill. ‘Now it’s not illegal in Chicago, they’re going to do it again there.’

Gillian’s 19-year-old daughter Piper Maru will be bridesmaid.

Gillian is thrilled that her sister Zoe, 30, and her partner will be able to renew their vows their home city of Chicago, which will allow gay marriage from June

Wedding joy: Gillian Anderson is thrilled that her sister Zoe, 30, will be able to marry in their home city, after already marrying in the UK last year

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‘I also wore brown contact lenses as Colin has brown eyes,’ said Jeremy, 23, pictured with Colin at last week’s London premiere of the Second World War film.

‘I’ve got big lips that look like bum cheeks so I had to try to minimise them so they looked like Colin’s.

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