Name: David Duchovny
Birth Name: David Duchovny
Birthdate: Aug. 7, 1960
Birthplace: New York, N.Y.
1-MINUTE RESUME FOR DAVID DUCHOVNY
Once often called "the thinking woman's sex symbol," Duchovny graduated
from Princeton with a degree in English Literature, earned his Masters
at Yale and was on the verge of getting his Ph.D. when he decided to
pursue acting (his first job was a Lowenbrau beer ad). He got the lead
in Showtime's erotic series
Red Shoe Diaries before landing his career-making role in 1993 investigating aliens as FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the hit sci-fi show
The X-Files.
For better or worse, Duchovny decided it was time to leave after eight
seasons. As beloved as his character was, audiences never warmed up to
the movies he made during and after the show — other than the semi-hit
The X-Files movie — and he returned to TV for the cable series
Californication.
5 Things:
1. He offered the role of the mother in House of D to Meryl Streep, who turned it down.
2. He was the title character in the video game XIII.
3. He is a big-time sports fan and was a star on his high school basketball team.
4. He met his wife Téa Leoni on the set of The Tonight Show. They didn't see each other for six years until their mutual agent suggested they meet; he proposed four months later.
5. Some press outlets have accused him of being a sex addict, which he has denied.
Quote:
"At the risk of being too deep, destiny is really just story-telling.
That's what we do when we tell stories. We try to make sense out of
what happened, we try to give it meaning. So I think it's all chaos and
it doesn't make sense until we tell the story."
—
IO Film, 2000
Family:
Wife: Téa Leoni, actress; born Feb. 25, 1966; married May 6, 1997
Daughter: Madelaine West Duchovny, born Apr. 24, 1999
Son: Kyd Miller Duchovny, born June 15, 2002
Awards:
1999: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (Drama), The X-Files
1998: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (Drama), The X-Files
1997: Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (Drama), The X-Files
1996: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (Drama), The X-Files
FILMS
The X-Files 2 - (2008) - Actor
Things We Lost in the Fire - (2007 ) - Actor
The TV Set - (2007) - Actor
Trust the Man - (2006) - Actor
House of D - (2005) - Director, Actor
X-Files Mythology - Vol. 2: The Black Oil - (2005) - Actor
House of D - (2005) - Screenwriter
Connie and Carla - (2004) - Actor
Full Frontal - (2002) - Actor
The Red Shoe Diaries Collection - (2002) - Actor
Evolution - (2001) - Actor
Zoolander - (2001) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries - The Game - (2000) - Actor
Return to Me - (2000) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries - Four on the Floor - (2000) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries - Luscious Lola - (2000) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries - Strip Poker - (2000) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries - Swimming Naked - (2000) - Actor
The X-Files - (1998) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries 8 - Night of Abandon - (1997) - Actor
Playing God - (1997) - Actor
X-Files, The: Leonard Betts/ Memento Mori - (1997) - Actor
X-Files, The: Tempus Fugit/Max - (1997) - Actor
X-Files, The: Small Potatoes/Gethsemane - (1997) - Actor
X-Files Boxed Set, The - V. 8 - (1997) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries 7 - Burning Up - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Little Green Men/The Host - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Sleepless/Duane Barry - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Ascension/One Breath - (1996) - Actor
X-Files Boxed Set, The - V. 1 - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Pusher/Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Wetwired/Talitha Cumi - (1996) - Actor, Story
X-Files Boxed Set, The - V. 6 - (1996) - Actor
X-Files Boxed Set, The - V. 7 - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Herrenvolk/ Home - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Tunguska/Terma - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Unruhe/ Paper Hearts - (1996) - Actor
X-Files, The: Piper Maru/Apocrypha - (1996) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries 5 - Weekend Pass - (1995) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries 6 - How I Met My Husband - (1995) - Actor
X-Files, The: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose/War of the Coprophages - (1995) - Actor
X-Files, The: Nisei/731 - (1995) - Actor
X-Files, The: The Blessing Way/Paper Clip - (1995) - Actor
X-Files Boxed Set, The - V. 5 - (1995) - Actor
X-Files, The: Beyond the Sea/E.B.E. - (1994) - Actor
X-Files, The: Darkness Falls/The Erlenmeyer Flask - (1994) - Actor
X-Files Boxed Set, The - V. 2 - (1994) - Actor
Kalifornia - (1993) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries 4 - Auto Erotica - (1993) - Actor
X-Files, The: Pilot/Deep Throat - (1993) - Actor
X-Files, The: Conduit/Ice - (1993) - Actor
X-Files, The: Fallen Angel/Eve - (1993) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries - Girl on a Bike - (1993) - Actor
Ruby - (1992) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries the Movie - (1992) - Actor
Red Shoe Diaries 2 - Double Dare - (1992) - Actor
Chaplin - (1992) - Actor
Venice, Venice - (1992) - Actor
Julia Has Two Lovers - (1991) - Actor
Denial - (1991) - Actor
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead - (1991) - Actor
The Rapture - (1991) - Actor
New Year's Day - (1988) - Actor
