Coordinates | 39°44′21″N104°59′5″N |
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birthname | David William Duchovny |
birth date | August 07, 1960 |
birth place | New York City, New York |
occupation | Actor |
yearsactive | 1987–present |
spouse | Téa Leoni (1997–Present) (separated) |
homepage | }} |
David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer and director. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.
He received a Master of Arts, also 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.
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 Conan O'Brien's late night show about the city's heavy rainfall; he joked, "Vancouver is a very nice place, if you like 400 inches of rainfall a day." 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." 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 a hand model 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 also 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 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. The film starred Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams, and Duchovny's wife Tea Leoni in a coming-of-age tale. It received mostly poor reviews and little box office success. Duchovny also directed an episode of Bones (Episode 211, "Judas on a Pole") during its second season.
Duchovny currently plays 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.
Paul Ruffino, the studio executive in charge of casting The X-Files show and later Duchovny's role model for the Hank Moody character on Californication, was very positive towards him. According to Carter, Duchovny turned out to be one of the best-read people he knew. After getting the role, Duchovny thought the show wouldn't 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.
Duchovny is a former vegetarian and a current pescatarian.
In 1996, People magazine named him one of its 50 Most Beautiful People.
On August 28, 2008, Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction.
style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year | Film | Role | Notes |
1988 in film | 1988 | Working Girl | Tess' birthday party friend | |
1989 in film | 1989 | New Year's Day (1989 film)New Year's Day || | Billy | |
rowspan="2" | 1990 | Denial (1990 film)Denial || | John | |
Bad Influence (film)Bad Influence | |
Club goer with glasses | ||
rowspan="4" | 1991 | Twin Peaks| | Drug Enforcement Administration>DEA Agent Denise/Dennis Bryson | TV series'' |
Julia Has Two Lovers | Daniel | |||
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Bruce | |||
The Rapture (film)The Rapture | |
Randy | ||
rowspan="6" | 1992 | Ruby (film)Ruby || | Officer Tippit | |
Beethoven (film)Beethoven | |
Brad | ||
Baby Snatcher | David Anderson | |||
Red Shoe Diaries | Jake Winters | |||
Venice/Venice | Dylan | |||
Chaplin (film)Chaplin | |
Roland Totheroh>Rollie Totheroh | ||
rowspan="2" | 1993 | Kalifornia| | Brian Kessler | |
The X-Files | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | |||
1995 in film | 1995 | Saturday Night Live| | Host | Episode 386, May 13, 1995 |
1996 in film | 1996 | Space: Above and Beyond| | Alvin EL 1543, a.k.a. "Handsome Alvin" | |
rowspan="2" | 1997 | The Simpsons| | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | TV series (One episode: "The Springfield Files") |
Playing God (film)Playing God | |
Dr. Eugene Sands | ||
rowspan="2" | 1998 | The X-Files: Fight the Future| | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | |
''Saturday Night Live | Host | |||
2000 in film | 2000 | Return to Me| | Bob Rueland | |
rowspan="2" | 2001 | Evolution (movie)Evolution || | Dr. Ira Kane | |
Zoolander | J.P. Prewitt | |||
2002 in film | 2002 | Full Frontal (film)Full Frontal || | Bill/Gus | |
2004 in film | 2003 | Sex and the City| | Jeremy | TV series (One episode: "Boy, Interrupted") |
rowspan="2" | 2004 | Connie and Carla| | Jeff | |
House of D | Tom Warshaw | |||
2005 in film | 2005 | Trust the Man| | Tom | |
rowspan="3" | 2006 | ''Pedigree Petfoods| | Voice-over | "We're for dogs" ad campaign |
Queer Duck: the Movie | Tiny Jesus | |||
The TV Set | Mike Klein | |||
rowspan="4" | 2007 | Things We Lost in the Fire (film)Things We Lost in the Fire || | Brian Burke | |
The Secret (2007 film)The Secret (AKA Si j'étais toi'') | |
Dr. Benjamin Marris | ||
Quantum Hoops | Narrator | |||
Californication (TV series)Californication | |
Hank Moody | ||
2008 in film | 2008 | The X-Files: I Want to Believe| | Fox Mulder | |
2010 in film | 2010 | The Joneses| | Steve Jones |
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