Information about David Duchovny

David Duchovny
At the premiere of Trust the Man
Birth name	David William Duchovny
Born	July 7 1960 (1960--) (age 47) New York City, New York
Spouse(s)	Téa Leoni (1997 - present)
Awards Golden Globe Awards 1997 The X-Files

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.

Biography

Early life

Duchovny was born in New York City, New York to Amram Ducovny, a writer and publicist, and Margaret "Meg" (née Miller),^[1] a school administrator.^[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).

Career

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, entitled 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 in his last role, 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]

Duchovny currently plays Hank Moody, a troubled novelist in Showtime's series Californication. He also guest-directed an episode of Bones (Episode 211, "Judas on a Pole") during its second season.

Personal life

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 vegetarian 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."

Filmography

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
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		Handsome Alvin
1997	Playing God	Dr. Eugene Sands
1998	The X-Files	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	Post-production
2007	The Secret	Dr. Benjamin Marris	Post-production
	Things We Lost in the Fire	Steve
	Californication	Hank Moody	TV series, Season 1 Airing.
2009	Untitled X-Files Sequel	Fox Mulder	This project has not yet been confirmed.

References

External links

• David Duchovny at the Internet Movie Database
• David Duchovny at TV.com
• David's blog for Trust The Man http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/trusttheman/blog/
• Extended Interview with David Duchovny: on The X-Files and Writing/Directing the Episodes "The Unnatural" and "Hollywood A.D.", Cinefantastique, April 2002.
• Washington Post Interview with David Duchovny, April 2007 David Duchovny and the Drama of Television
• The Truth About David Duchovny: An Interview by Gillian Anderson, USAWeekend.com, May 26, 2000