1960-08-07 ( 64 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
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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2012-08-10
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2012-04-22
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2010-04-16
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2008-07-24
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The Secret
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The TV Set
2007-04-06
Queer Duck: The Movie
2006-07-14
The secret
2006-01-01
Trust the Man
2005-09-01
House of D
2004-05-07
Connie and Carla
2004-04-16
Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone
2002-08-28
Full Frontal
2002-08-02
Zoolander
2001-09-28
Evolution
2001-06-08
Return to Me
2000-04-07
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999-10-26
Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
1998-11-11
The X-Files
1998-06-19
Inside The X-Files
1998-02-01
Playing God
1997-10-17
Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
1996-02-06
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995-08-01
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994-04-20
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
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Kalifornia
1993-06-24
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993-03-23
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Red Shoe Diaries
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Baby Snatcher
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Venice/Venice
1992-04-10
Beethoven
1992-04-03
Ruby
1992-03-27
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Julia Has Two Lovers
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Bad Influence
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Denial
1990-01-21
Working Girl
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