David Duchovny
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Duchovny at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con
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| Born | David William Duchovny August 7, 1960 New York City, New York, United States |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (B.A., English Literature) Yale University (M.A., English Literature) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Téa Leoni (m. 1997–2011) |
| Children | 2 |
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Early life
Duchovny was born in New York City, New York in 1960.[2] He is the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003),[3] a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.[4][5][6] His father was Jewish; Duchovny's paternal grandfather was from Berdychiv (now in Ukraine, and part of the Russian Empire at the time of his immigration), and Duchovny's paternal grandmother was born in Poland.[7][8][9][10] Duchovny's mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland.[11][12][13] His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.[4][14][15]Education
Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University[5] 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.[16] 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.[5] 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.
Career
Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. The next year he appeared in two scenes in Working Girl (1988). He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator and host in the long-running Showtime erotica/soft-core TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 1992, he played the role of Rollie Totheroh, in the biographic film Chaplin, directed by Richard Attenborough, and based on the life of Charlie Chaplin. In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the science fiction series The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a conspiracy theorist who believed his sister had been abducted by aliens.[5] The show evolved into a cult hit and quickly became one of The Fox Network's first major television hits. Also in 1993, Duchovny was cast alongside Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis, in the Dominic Sena-directed thriller, Kalifornia.
Duchovny caused controversy when it became public that he was the primary reason for which 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 Late Night with Conan O'Brien about the city's heavy rainfall; he joked, "Vancouver is a very nice place, if you like 400 inches of rainfall a day" (Duchovny's character Mulder would later reference this joke in the Season 5 episode "Schizogeny"). He 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."[20] 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 attraction to Sanders. In the final episode of the series, he performed a parody of Sharon Stone's 'flashing' scene from Basic Instinct and a parody of "Dr. Hannibal Lecter" being introduced to Agent "Clarice Starling" in The Silence of the Lambs.
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 directed by Bonnie Hunt and co-starring Minnie Driver and Carroll O'Connor. In 2001 Duchovny played hand model J.P. Prewitt in the Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander. He also played the role of Ira Kane in the movie Evolution alongside Seann William Scott that same year. He appeared in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in May 2000. He got to the $250,000 question, but answered his $500,000 question incorrectly and lost $218,000, leaving him with $32,000. He appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy! in 1995 and 2010.
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[21] episode of the 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 appeared in the feature film House of D.[5] The film starred Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams, and Duchovny's wife Téa Leoni in a coming-of-age tale.[5] It received mostly poor reviews[22] and little box office success.[23] Duchovny also directed an episode of Bones (Episode 211, "Judas on a Pole") during its second season.
Duchovny also played Hank Moody, a troubled novelist in Showtime's series Californication. The portrayal landed him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical in 2007.[24]
According to X-Files creator Chris Carter, Duchovny turned out to be one of the best-read people he knew.[25] After getting the role, Duchovny thought the show would not last for long or that it wouldn't make as much impact as it did. Executive producer Frank Spotnitz called portraying actor Duchovny "amazingly smart". He further stated that Duchovny was behind some of the main characteristic ideas behind Mulder.[26]
In March 2014, NBC announced that a new series, entitled Aquarius and starring Duchovny, has been ordered. Duchovny portrays a 1960s police sergeant investigating small-time criminal and budding cult leader Charles Manson.[27]
Personal life
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.[28][29]On August 28, 2008, Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction.[30][31] On October 15, Duchovny's and Leoni's representatives issued a statement revealing they had separated several months earlier.[32] 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 married to Leoni, a claim that Duchovny has denied.[33] On November 15, 2008, the Daily Mail retracted their claims.[34] After getting back together, Duchovny and Leoni once again split on June 29, 2011.[35] In 2012 he declared he was still married to her, but they are separated.[36]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Working Girl | Tess's Friend | |
| 1989 | New Year's Day | Billy | |
| 1990 | Denial | John | |
| 1990 | Bad Influence | Club Goer | |
| 1991 | Julia Has Two Lovers | Daniel | |
| 1991 | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Bruce | |
| 1991 | The Rapture | Randy | |
| 1992 | Ruby | Officer Tippit | |
| 1992 | Beethoven | Brad | |
| 1992 | Red Shoe Diaries | Jake Winters | |
| 1992 | Venice/Venice | Dylan | |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Roland "Rollie" Totheroh | |
| 1992 | Baby Snatcher | David Anderson | Television movie |
| 1993 | Kalifornia | Brian Kessler | |
| 1997 | Playing God | Dr. Eugene Sands | |
| 1998 | The X-Files: Fight the Future | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | |
| 2000 | Return to Me | Bob Rueland | |
| 2001 | Evolution | Dr. Ira Kane | |
| 2001 | Zoolander | JP Prewitt | |
| 2002 | Full Frontal | Bill / Gus | |
| 2004 | Connie and Carla | Jeff | |
| 2004 | House of D | Tom Warshaw | Writer, director |
| 2005 | Trust the Man | Tom | |
| 2006 | Queer Duck: the Movie | Tiny Jesus | |
| 2006 | The TV Set | Mike Klein | |
| 2007 | Things We Lost in the Fire | Brian Burke | |
| 2007 | The Secret | Dr. Benjamin Marris | |
| 2007 | Quantum Hoops | Narrator | |
| 2008 | The X-Files: I Want to Believe | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | |
| 2009 | The Joneses | Steve Jones | |
| 2012 | Goats | The Goat Man | |
| 2013 | Phantom | Bruni | |
| 2013 | Louder Than Words | John Fareri |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990–1991 | Twin Peaks | DEA Agent Denise/Dennis Bryson | 3 episodes |
| 1992–1997 | Red Shoe Diaries | Jake Winters | 10 episodes |
| 1993–2002 | The X-Files | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | 176 episodes |
| 1995–1996 | The Larry Sanders Show | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 1995–1998 | Saturday Night Live | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 1996 | Frasier | Caller | Episode: "Frasier Loves Roz" |
| 1996 | Space: Above and Beyond | Handsome Alvin | Episode: "R&R" |
| 1997 | The Simpsons | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | Episode: "The Springfield Files" |
| 1997 | Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man | Richard | Episode: "The Girls of Route Canal" |
| 2002 | Life with Bonnie | Johnny Volcano | 2 episodes |
| 2003 | Sex and the City | Jeremy | Episode: "Boy, Interrupted" |
| 2007–2014 | Californication | Hank Moody | 84 episodes |
| 2014 | Aquarius |
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