David Duchovny
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.
118 acting credits · 5 directing credits
Acting · 118
The Simpsons
1989
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The X-Files
1993
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Frasier
1993
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Twin Peaks
1990
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Sex and the City
1998
The One Show
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Jeopardy!
1984
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Californication
2007
Mating Season
2026
Millennium
1996
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Duckman
1994
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Richard & Judy
2001
The Tony Danza Show
2004
GMTV
1993
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
History of the World: Part II
2023
Eek! The Cat
1992
Better Things
2016
Rove
1999
Space: Above and Beyond
1995
Aquarius
2015
Life with Bonnie
2002
The Lone Gunmen
2001
The Nineties
2017
The Sympathizer
2024
Evolution
2001
Zoolander
2001
The Chair
2021
The X-Files
1998
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Beethoven
1992
Working Girl
1988
Kalifornia
1993
The Magic Hour
1998
Malice
2025
The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
The Early Show
1999
The Craft: Legacy
2020
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023
You People
2023
The Bubble
2022
Chaplin
1992
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny
2025
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018
Bad Influence
1990
Eco-Challenge
1995
The Estate
2022
House of D
2004
Return to Me
2000
Phantom
2013
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
The Joneses
2010
Goats
2012
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Rapture
1991
See You When I See You
2026
Playing God
1997
Connie and Carla
2004
Full Frontal
2002
The Secret
2007
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
Trust the Man
2005
FEEL
2025
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993
What Happens Later
2023
The TV Set
2007
Queer Duck: The Movie
2006
Ruby
1992
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
Denial
1990
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995
Adam the First
2024
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
Reverse the Curse
2024
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
Inside The X-Files
1998
Red Shoe Diaries Movie 10: Some Things Never Change
1996
Louder Than Words
2013
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994
Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
1996
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
2024
Baby Snatcher
1992
New Year's Day
1990
The Making of 'The X Files: Fight the Future'
1998
Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
1998
Venice/Venice
1992
More Secrets of the X-Files
1996
Skip Chasers
1998
Julia Has Two Lovers
1990
Quantum Hoops
2007
Secrets of the X-Files
1995
Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone
2002
The Exiles
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Soapbox
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