David Duchovny 1960 65
David Duchovny 1960 65
David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards Duchovny was born in New York City, New York in 1960. He is the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. His father was Jewish, from a family that immigrated from the Russian Empire and Poland. His mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.
Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. Duchovny played a season of junior varsity basketball as a shooting guard and centerfield for the varsity baseball team.
He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. At Yale, he was a student of popular literary critic Harold Bloom.
Duchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6, 1997. In April 1999, Leoni gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born in June 2002. Duchovny is a former vegetarian and, as of 2007, is a pescetarian.
On August 28, 2008, Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. On October 15, 2008, Duchovny's and Leoni's representatives issued a statement revealing they had separated several months earlier.A week later, Duchovny's lawyer said that he planned to sue the Daily Mail over an article it ran that claimed he had an affair with Hungarian tennis instructor Edit Pakay while still married to Leoni, a claim that Duchovny has denied. On November 15, 2008, the Daily Mail retracted their claims. After getting back together, Duchovny and Leoni once again split on June 29, 2011.
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2025 FEEL as Sitter 7
2025 Strokes as Footage as Fox Mulder
2024 Reverse the Curse as Marty Fullilove Director, Writer, Producer, Book
2024 Adam the First as James
2024 Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World as Narrator (voice)
2023 What Happens Later as Bill Executive Producer
2023 Pet Sematary: Bloodlines as Bill Baterman
2023 You People as Arnold
2022 The Estate as Richard
2022 The Bubble as Dustin Mulray
2020 The Craft: Legacy as Adam
2013 Louder Than Words as John Fareri
2013 Phantom as Bruni
2012 Goats as Goat Man
2012 FOX 25th Anniversary Special as Self
2010 The Joneses as Steve Jones
2008 The X Files: I Want to Believe as Fox Mulder
2008 VH1 Rock Honors: The Who as Self
2007 Quantum Hoops as Narrator
2007 The Secret as Dr. Benjamin Marris
2007 Things We Lost in the Fire as Steven Burke
2007 The TV Set as Mike Klein
2006 Queer Duck: The Movie as Tiny Jesus (voice)
2006 The secret
2005 Trust the Man as Tom
2004 House of D as Tom Warshaw Director, Writer
2004 Connie and Carla as Jeff
2002 Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone
2002 Full Frontal as Gus
2001 Zoolander as J.P. Prewitt
2001 Evolution as Dr. Ira Kane
2000 Return to Me as Bob Rueland
1999 SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler as Pauline (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998 Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1998 The X-Files as Agent Fox Mulder
1998 Inside The X-Files as Self
1998 Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten as Fox Mulder / Self
1998 Skip Chasers
1997 Playing God as Dr. Eugene Sands
1996 Red Shoe Diaries Movie 10: Some Things Never Change as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1996 Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1995 Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1994 Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1993 Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1993 The X-Files as Fox Mulder
1993 Kalifornia as Brian Kessler
1993 Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare as Jake Winters (archive footage)
1992 Chaplin as Rollie Totheroh
1992 Red Shoe Diaries as Jake Winters
1992 Baby Snatcher as David Anderson
1992 Venice/Venice as Dylan
1992 Beethoven as Brad
1992 Ruby as Officer Tippit
1991 The Rapture as Randy
1991 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead as Bruce
1990 Julia Has Two Lovers as Daniel
1990 Bad Influence as Clue Goer with Glasses
1990 New Year's Day as Billy
1990 Denial as John
1988 Working Girl as Tess's Birthday Party Friend