Mitch Pileggi is pleased that the show has ‘gained a new generation of fans’ after 11 seasons on FOX Per IMDb, Warren was cast as Walter Skinner’s FBI assistant for a few seasons. Later in the run of the show, Warren moved on to a different role she got to play her husband’s character’s assistant. “I had no intention at that point of ever getting married again, but I was so thunderstruck,” he admitted. Pileggi had previously gone through a divorce and wasn’t necessarily interested in getting hitched one more time. “I swear, I said, ‘I’m going to marry her.'” “I was like, ‘Well, I don’t,'” the X-Files actor remembers. Everybody knows Arlene.'” However, Pileggi had never met Warren before. “I asked David, ‘Who’s that?’ He said, ‘That’s Arlene. “When I saw her, I was smitten immediately,” he said. RELATED: Why ‘The X-Files’ Cast Member Who Played Skinner Had to Audition 3 Times Mitch Pileggi and his wife Arlene Warren | Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images Pileggi admits it was something like love at first sight. “She was usually on second unit being Gillian, but there was one episode when she played a waitress in a scene that Gillian, David, and I were doing.” “She was Gillian’s photo double on the show and I met her the third season,” he explained.
Pileggi said that he first met Arlene Warren on season 3 of the sci-fi TV show.
Pileggi portrayed the X-Files character of FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner. The Dallas Morning News, who interviewed The X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi, asked the actor about how he met his wife. Davis, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Mitch Pileggi, cast of The X-Files | FOX Image Collection via Getty Images ‘The X-Files’ cast member who played AD Skinner met his wife - who would later play his assistant - onset