David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and singer-songwriter.
32 Facts About David Duchovny
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David Duchovny is known for portraying FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and as writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.
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David Duchovny executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius.
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David Duchovny is the son of Amram "Ami" Ducovny, a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee, and Margaret "Meg", a school administrator and teacher.
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David Duchovny is the second son and the middle child of three children.
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David Duchovny's father was Jewish, and his mother was Lutheran.
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David Duchovny's father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.
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David Duchovny's paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Ukraine, and David Duchovny's paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Congress Poland.
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David Duchovny was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs.
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David Duchovny earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.
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David Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Lowenbrau beer in 1987.
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David Duchovny had a small recurring role as Denise Bryson, a transgender DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator and host in the Showtime softcore erotica TV series Red Shoe Diaries.
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In 1993, David 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.
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Spotnitz further stated that David Duchovny was behind some of the main characteristic ideas behind Mulder.
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Also in 1993, David Duchovny was cast alongside Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis, in the Dominic Sena-directed thriller Kalifornia.
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David Duchovny remained with the series until leaving the show in 2001, partly because of a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming.
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David Duchovny appeared in half of the season eight episodes, but did not appear in season nine until the series finale in 2002.
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David Duchovny provided the voice for a parody of his Mulder character in the episode "The Springfield Files" of the animated comedy series The Simpsons.
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David Duchovny caused controversy when it became public that he was the primary reason for The X-Files moving filming locations from Vancouver, British Columbia to Los Angeles in 1998.
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David Duchovny has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live twice.
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David Duchovny got to the $250,000 question but answered his $500,000 question incorrectly and lost $218,000, leaving him with $32,000.
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David Duchovny provided the voice of Ethan Cole in the 2005 video game Area 51, as well as that of the title character in the 2003 video game XIII.
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David Duchovny played the role of Jeremy, Carrie Bradshaw's high-school ex-boyfriend, who has committed himself to a Connecticut mental health facility.
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In 2005, David Duchovny provided the voice-over for a PSA radio campaign for Act Against Violence.
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David Duchovny directed "Judas on a Pole," an episode of Bones, during the show's second season.
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From 2007 to 2014, David Duchovny played the troubled, womanizing novelist, Hank Moody, in the Showtime series, Californication.
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David Duchovny portrayed a 1960s police sergeant investigating small-time criminal and budding cult leader Charles Manson.
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In March 2015, David Duchovny was announced as returning in a six-episode continuation of The X-Files.
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David Duchovny made his return to acting in The Craft: Legacy, the 2020 film sequel to The Craft.
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David Duchovny filed for divorce in June 2014, and the couple had agreed to settlement terms by that August.
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David Duchovny is a vegetarian or pescetarian and is supportive of environmentalism, and an enthusiast of electric vehicle technology.
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David Duchovny made an appearance at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in support of the film Revenge of the Electric Car.