Originally published July 20, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
One veteran of The X-Files is set to make his return for the series’ upcoming eleventh season. Mitch Pileggi, who starred as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, will reprise his role for the 10-episode event series, joining lead stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in Mulder and Scully’s search for the truth.
Pileggi is one of only a handful of actors to have had a recurring role on The X-Files with Skinner gaining a more prominent role as the series went on. He appeared in four of the six episodes in its tenth season.
Other cast members who returned in the first event series were Annabeth Gish as FBI agent Monica Reyes and William B. Davis as the Cigarette Smoking Man. Joel McHale, Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose also joined the event series with their fates left open in the season finale.
The new season of The X-Files will begin filming this summer for a premiere next year.
