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.
Acted in
Reverse the Curse
2024
as Marty Fullilove
The Sympathizer
2024
as Thespian / Ryan Glenn
Adam the First
2024
as James
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
2024
as Narrator (voice)
What Happens Later
2023
as Bill
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023
as Bill Baterman
History of the World: Part II
2023
as Howard Cosell Impersonator
You People
2023
as Arnold
The Estate
2022
as Richard
The Bubble
2022
as Dustin Mulray
The Chair
2021
as David Duchovny
The Craft: Legacy
2020
as Adam
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018
as Self
The Nineties
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Better Things
2016
as David Duchovny / Teak
Aquarius
2015
as Detective Sam Hodiak
Louder Than Words
2013
as John Fareri
Phantom
2013
as Bruni
Goats
2012
as Goat Man
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
as Self
The Joneses
2010
as Steve Jones
The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
as Fox Mulder
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
as Self
Quantum Hoops
2007
as Narrator
The Secret
2007
as Dr. Benjamin Marris
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
as Steven Burke
Californication
2007
as Hank Moody
The TV Set
2007
as Mike Klein
Queer Duck: The Movie
2006
as Tiny Jesus (voice)
Trust the Man
2005
as Tom
House of D
2005
as Tom Warshaw
Connie and Carla
2004
as Jeff
Life with Bonnie
2002
as Johnny Volcano
Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone
2002
Full Frontal
2002
as Gus
Zoolander
2001
as J.P. Prewitt
Evolution
2001
as Dr. Ira Kane
The Lone Gunmen
2001
as Fox Mulder
Return to Me
2000
as Bob Rueland
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
as Pauline (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rove
1999
as Self
Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
1998
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
The X Files
1998
as Agent Fox Mulder
Sex and the City
1998
as Jeremy
Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998
as Fox Mulder / Self
Inside The X-Files
1998
as Self
Playing God
1997
as Dr. Eugene Sands
Millennium
1996
as Bobby Wingood (uncredited)
Red Shoe Diaries Movie 10: Some Things Never Change
1996
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
1996
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Space: Above and Beyond
1995
Space: Above and Beyond
1995
as Handsome Alvin
Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
Eco-Challenge
1995
Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Frasier
1993
as Tom (voice)
The X-Files
1993
as Fox Mulder
Kalifornia
1993
as Brian Kessler
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Chaplin
1992
as Rollie Totheroh
Eek! The Cat
1992
as Fox Mulder (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as David Duchovny
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
as Jake Winters
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
as Jake Winters
Baby Snatcher
1992
as David Anderson
Venice/Venice
1992
as Dylan
Beethoven
1992
as Brad
Ruby
1992
as Officer Tippit
The Rapture
1991
as Randy
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
as Bruce
Julia Has Two Lovers
1990
as Daniel
Twin Peaks
1990
as Denise Bryson
Bad Influence
1990
as Clue Goer with Glasses
New Year's Day
1990
as Billy
Denial
1990
as John
The Simpsons
1989
as Fox Mulder (voice)
Working Girl
1988
as Tess's Birthday Party Friend
Jeopardy!
1984
See You When I See You
Malice
as Jamie Tanner