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The X-Files may have long left the screen, but its players still make their presence very much felt on TV and at the movies.

David Duchovny (Agent Fox Mulder): Won another Golden Globe (as he did when playing Fox Mulder) for his role as troubled novelist Hank Moody on the comedy-drama Californication, which began in 2006 and is still running. How long can a case of writer's block last? Well, about as long as an obsession with finding out the truth, apparently.

Gillian Anderson (Agent Dana Scully): Plays senior police officer Stella Gibson on The Fall, a British TV show in which she investigates a series of murders in Belfast. BBC has renewed the show for a second season, most like to be aired next year. Plus, her years as long-suffering partner to Mulder must have prepared her for her other current recurring role – that of Bedelia Du Maurier, psychotherapist to Hannibal.

Chris Carter (series creator): After X-Files: I Want To Believe divided fans in 2008, series creator Carter went on to write and direct a film entitled Fencewalker which is still listed on IMDb as being in post-production (for three years?). It stars Katie Cassidy (Supernatural's Ruby), DB Sweeney (who appeared in the short-lived Carter series Harsh Realm) and Game Of Thrones hottie Natalie Dormer. While fan speculation has been intense that this could be the third X-Files film being made under tight secrecy, some film news sites say it is just a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story with no supernatural elements. Still ... where the heck is it?

William B. Davis (Cancer Man / The Smoking Man): Davis has been showing up in some really ... uneven SyFy original monster flicks like Behemoth which was about a giant creature sleeping under the Earth's surface. And there's Stonados which is due this month. Hint: if Sharknado was about a tornado that dropped sharks on people, you can figure out this one is about a tornado that drops ... stones (very large ones) on people. Genre respectability restored: Davis is quite cleverly cast as the older Alec Sadler on the quite good Canadian sci-fi action series Continuum. The younger Sadler is played by Erik Knudsen, who does look like someone who'll age into William B. Davis.

Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood and Dean Haglund (Byers, Frohike and Langley – The Lone Gunmen): It's almost conspiracy theory fodder the way these guys haven't been seen all that much since. Harwood has done numerous guest shots on shows like Smallville, Supernatural and Emily Owens, MD. Braidwood keeps busy with behind-the-scenes work as second unit director and assistant director (he worked on I Want To Believe in that capacity). Haglund still does some genre work, was in the 2010 Bones episode The X In The File, and hosted the 2011 documentary The Truth Is Out There about, what else, conspiracy theories.

Mitch Pileggi (FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner): The most high-profile genre TV appearance he's made in the last couple of years has got to be as Sam and Dean Winchester's maternal grandfather on Supernatural Season Six; in the "mundane" world he has had a recurring role on Grey's Anatomy and, most recently, as Harris Ryland on the Dallas revival. Pileggi was also in a really heart-rending fourth-season episode of Criminal Minds in which he played a serial killer known as the Road Warrior.

Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek): The creepy Syndicate agent last seen on the show as a ghost. Lea had regular roles on series like Men In Trees, Kyle XY and V, and lately he's been seen on The Killing and also Continuum as "Agent Gardiner".

Robert Patrick (Agent John Doggett): He "replaced" Mulder in Season Eight after the latter went missing. Patrick was most recently seen as Master Chief on the short-lived TV series Last Resort, as the gunslinging G-man Max Kennard in Gangster Squad and as former werewolf packmaster Jackson Herveaux on True Blood.

Glen Morgan and James Wong (writers/producers): This dynamite writing team departed The X-Files partway through to work on Space: Above And Beyond (which didn't last very long), . They found greater success co-creating the Final Destination franchise, and their involvement lasted until the third film in the series. Morgan was also executive producer on the short-lived genre shows Bionic Woman and last year's The River. Wong is exec producer on American Horror Story, now about to go into its third season. He also directed Dragonball Evolution, but let's not judge; it was Jamie Chung's big movie break after all.

David Nutter (director): He directed 15 episodes of The X-Files, including one of the very best, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose. Nutter has been really busy, mostly with TV work (The Pacific, Entourage, the pilot for Arrow and the upcoming Flash). Just this year, he gave us The Rains Of Castamere episode of Game Of Thrones. You know, the infamous Red Wedding episode that made fans tear their clothes, rip out their hair and wander sobbing through the streets. Winter has come ....

Annabeth Gish (Agent Monica Reyes): Agent Reyes, who has a professional history with Doggett, was introduced in Season Eight and became a major character in the ninth and final season. Her most recent roles are as Dr Anne Sullivan on Pretty Little Liars and Charlotte Millwright on The Bridge.

Darin Morgan (editor/writer/creature performer): Story editor on the show in 1995-96 and writer of some of its best episodes (he was also the Flukeman in The Host and the janitor with the tail in Small Potatoes), Morgan has since served as consulting producer on the Night Stalker and Bionic Woman revivals, and Fringe. We really wish he would write more. His handful of X-Files episodes were some of its best: Clyde Bruckman, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, Humbug and War Of The Coprophages.

Frank Spotnitz (producer): One of the show's longest-serving producers/executive producers, Spotnitz's most recent producing work is the TV spy thriller series Hunted, starring Melissa George. and Strike Back, the Brit show about British Intelligence's secretive "Section 20" unit.

Vince Gilligan (consulting producer, writer of 27 episodes, producer, executive producer): Gilligan's output for the series included the Emmy-nominated Memento Mori, Pusher, Soft Light and Leonard Betts. In 2008, he co-wrote the offbeat superhero flick Hancock. His latest output? Two words: Breaking Bad.

Rob Bowman (producer/director): Bowman probably directed the most episodes of the show (33!) and is still busy, these days with a certain writer/"consulting detective" named Castle. As of that show's fifth season, he's executive-produced 88 episodes and directed 18.

Mark Snow (composer): The X-Files just wouldn't be what it is today without Snow's instantly recognisable theme. His compositions have been heard on numerous other series since, including Smallville, Ghost Whisperer, Ringers and Blue Bloods. – DA

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