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David Duchovny

David Duchovny in 2007
Birth name David William Duchovny
Born August 7, 1960 (1960-08-07) (age 47)
New York City, New York
Spouse(s) Téa Leoni (1997 - present)

David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor perhaps best known for his role as Fox Mulder on The X-Files.

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Duchovny was born in New York City, New York, the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator, and Amram Ducovny, a writer and publicist.[1][2] His father was Jewish and his mother a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland.[3][4][5] Duchovny's siblings are Daniel and Laurie Duchovny. He attended The Collegiate School For Boys in Manhattan, and ultimately graduated from Princeton University.[1] He also holds a Master's degree in English Literature from Yale University and began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished.[1] At Princeton, he was a member of the Charter Club, one of the University's eating clubs, where upperclassmen take their meals. The title of his senior thesis is The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels (1982).

Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator/host in the long-running Showtime erotica/softcore TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the sci-fi series The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a conspiracy theorist who believed his sister was abducted by aliens.[1] The show began as a cult hit and quickly became one of The FOX Network's first major hits. During the show's run, in between the fifth and sixth seasons, Duchovny co-starred alongside Gillian Anderson in a 1998 motion picture that continued the X-Files storyline, titled The X-Files: Fight the Future.[1] He remained with the series until quitting in 2001, partly due to a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming.[6] Duchovny appeared in half of the season eight episodes but did not appear in season nine until the series finale in 2002. He also provided the voice for a parody of his Fox Mulder character in an episode of The Simpsons entitled The Springfield Files.

Duchovny caused controversy when it became public that he was the primary reason that filming of The X-Files series was moved from Vancouver, British Columbia to Los Angeles in 1998. Many residents of Vancouver were upset with Duchovny over scripted jokes on Conan O'Brien's late night show about the city's heavy rainfall; he joked that "Vancouver is a very nice place if you like 400 inches of rainfall a day" and also stated "Of course, I'm tired of the rain. But if I wasn't married to a woman that lives in L.A. I'd stay in Vancouver. It's a lovely city".[7] During the run of The X-Files, he also made several guest appearances in the cult TV satire The Larry Sanders Show, playing himself but adding a strong homosexual attraction to Sanders. He featured memorably in the final episode of the series, performing a parody of Sharon Stone's infamous 'flashing' scene from Basic Instinct.

Duchovny has guest hosted Saturday Night Live twice (May 13, 1995 and May 9, 1998). Both shows were season finales. In 2000, he starred in the feature film Return to Me, a romantic comedy/drama. Return to Me was directed by Bonnie Hunt and co-starred Minnie Driver and Carroll O'Connor. In 2001, Duchovny played a hand model in the Ben Stiller comedy, Zoolander.

Duchovny provided the voice of Ethan Cole in the 2005 video game Area 51, as well as that of the title character "XIII" in the 2003 video game XIII. In 2003, Duchovny starred in the 84th[8] episode of the popular HBO show Sex And The City. He played the role of Jeremy, Carrie Bradshaw's high-school ex-boyfriend who has committed himself to a Connecticut mental health facility. In 2005, Duchovny, who had already made his directorial debut with an episode of The X-Files, wrote, directed and featured in House of D.[1] The film starred Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams and Duchovny's wife Tea Leoni in a coming of age tale.[1] It met with mostly poor reviews [9] and little box office success.[10] He also guest-directed an episode of Bones (Episode 211, "Judas on a Pole") during its second season.

Duchovny currently plays Hank Moody, a troubled novelist in Showtime's series Californication. He was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical in 2007 for the role.[11]

Duchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6, 1997. On April 24, 1999, Leoni gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born June 15, 2002. Though their children's names are Madelaine and Kyd, David and his wife call them by their middle names. The Duchovnys make their home in Malibu, California.

Duchovny is a former vegetarian[12] and wears contact lenses. He suffered an eye injury due to a basketball accident years ago, which caused one pupil to be enlarged. Duchovny keeps in shape with a variety of different activities including swimming, yoga, and boxing. When he took the skin revealing role of Hank in Californication, he admitted to "lifting a little weights".[citation needed]

  • 1997 - Nominated - Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - The Larry Sanders Show
  • 1997 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - The X-Files
  • 1998 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - The X-Files
  • 2003 - Nominated - Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Life with Bonnie

  • 1996 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - The X-Files
  • 1997 - Winner - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - The X-Files
  • 1998 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - The X-Files
  • 1999 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - The X-Files
  • 2008 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy - Californication

Year Title Role Notes
1988 Working Girl Tess's Birthday Party Friend
1989 New Year's Day Billy
1990 Bad Influence Club goer with glasses
Denial John
1991 Julia Has Two Lovers Daniel
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Bruce
The Rapture Randy
Twin Peaks Agent Denise/Dennis Bryson TV
1992 Ruby Officer Tippit
Beethoven Brad
Baby Snatcher David TV
Red Shoe Diaries (TV series and movie) Jake Winters TV
Venice/Venice Dylan
Chaplin Rollie Totheroh
1993 Kalifornia Brian Kessler
1996 Space: Above and Beyond Handsome Alvin
1997 Playing God Dr. Eugene Sands
1998 The X-Files: Fight the Future Fox Mulder
2000 Return to Me Bob Rueland
2001 Evolution Dr. Ira Kane
Zoolander J.P. Prewitt
2002 Full Frontal Bill/Gus
2003 Boy, Interrupted Jeremy Sex and the City Episode 84, HBO
2004 Connie and Carla Jeff
2005 House of D Tommy Directorial debut, also wrote the film.
2006 Trust the Man Tom
Pedigree Petfoods Voice-over "We're for dogs" ad campaign
The TV Set Mike Klein
2007 The Secret Dr. Benjamin Marris
Things We Lost in the Fire Steve
Californication Hank Moody TV series, Season 1
2008 Untitled X-Files Sequel Fox Mulder Filming began on Dec. 10, 2007 for a July 25, 2008 release.[13]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio
  2. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/65/David-Duchovny.html
  3. ^ http://duchovny.net/articles/latimes1026.htm
  4. ^ http://duchovny.net/articles/culttimes.htm
  5. ^ http://www.jvibe.com/popculture/duchovny.shtml
  6. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1337685.stm BBC News
  7. ^ http://www.mjq.net/xfiles/dd-wet.htm Mike Roberts, Vancouver Province
  8. ^ http://www.hbo.com/city/episode/season6/episode84.shtml Boy, Interrupted
  9. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_of_d/ Rotten Tomatoes
  10. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372334/business/ IMDb
  11. ^ Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2008 Golden Globe Awards For The Year Ended December 31, 2007. HFPA (2007). Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
  12. ^ Stated on the November 16, 2007 episode of Live with Regis and Kelly he is no longer vegetarian but does not consume red meat.
  13. ^ LA Times News Article retrieved 1st November 2007

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