5 ways Gillian Anderson's Stella Gibson on 'The Fall' is a great role model

The Fall's Stella Gibson has been hailed as a role model for women. Photo: Filepic

When the Irish/British crime thriller The Fall debuted in 2013, the world – particularly women – fell in love with its lead, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson played artfully by American actress Gillian Anderson. Gibson, it seemed, was the representation of a woman on TV that viewers have been waiting for.

She was strong, intelligent, in control, beautiful, imperfect, perceptive and, best of all, she didn’t tolerate misogyny: not from the criminals she was investigating or the police officers she worked alongside.