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.
| Organization | Category | Movie |
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The X-Files
as Fox Mulder
Episodes: 218
First Aired: Sep 10, 1993
Californication
as Hank Moody
Episodes: 84
First Aired: Aug 13, 2007
Red Shoe Diaries
as Jake Winters
Episodes: 66
First Aired: Jun 27, 1992
Aquarius
as Detective Sam Hodiak
Episodes: 26
First Aired: May 28, 2015
Twin Peaks
as Denise Bryson
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Apr 08, 1990
The Sympathizer
as Thespian / Ryan Glenn
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Apr 14, 2024
Life with Bonnie
as Johnny Volcano
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 17, 2002
The Simpsons
as Fox Mulder (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 17, 1989
Frasier
as Tom (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1993
The Lone Gunmen
as Fox Mulder
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 04, 2001
The Larry Sanders Show
as David Duchovny
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 1992
Space: Above and Beyond
as Handsome Alvin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1995
Eek! The Cat
as Fox Mulder (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 11, 1992
Malice
as Jamie Tanner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Unknown
Millennium
as Bobby Wingood (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 25, 1996
The Chair
as David Duchovny
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 20, 2021
Sex and the City
as Jeremy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 06, 1998
History of the World: Part II
as Howard Cosell Impersonator
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 06, 2023
Better Things
as David Duchovny / Teak
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2016
Eco-Challenge
Episodes: 17
First Aired: Apr 01, 1995
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 13, 1993
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 05, 1988
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 25, 2014
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
The View
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 05, 1988
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 11, 1975
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 26, 2018
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 09, 2019
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 21, 2003
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 14, 1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2003
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 2004
The One Show
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 14, 2006
The Daily Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 22, 1996
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 28, 1995
Jeopardy!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1984
Space: Above and Beyond
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1995
Richard & Judy
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 26, 2001
The Early Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 01, 1999
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 2005
VH1 Rock Honors
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 31, 2006
GMTV
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 1993
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self / Fox Mulder
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 26, 2003
Rove
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 1999
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 26, 2003
The Nineties
as Self (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 09, 2017
The View
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 25, 1992
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 10, 1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 17, 2014
The Magic Hour
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 08, 1998
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2003
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
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