David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter, best known for his portrayal of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files television series, as well as the two feature-length films: The X-Files: Fight the Future and The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
In addition to being the lead star, Duchovny has written several episodes of The X-Files (typically with series creator Chris Carter), and has also directed three episodes: The Unnatural, Hollywood A.D. and William.
In the shows original run from 1993–2002, Duchovny's appearances were reduced for the last two seasons, appearing in half of the Season 8 episodes, before returning only for the Season 9 finale.
Duchovny's performance, along with The X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully, has received widespread acclaim.
Personal life[]
David Duchovny earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a graduate degree in English Literature from Yale University, which is when he began studying acting. He abandoned his doctoral studies to become a full-time actor.
Duchovny was married to actress Tea Leoni – who appeared in TXF: "Hollywood A.D.", playing as Dana Scully's actress – and they have two children but are now divorced. He previously dated actress Perrey Reeves. He is also the brother of actor Daniel Duchovny. His daughter Madelaine (who goes by West) made her acting debut in the Season 11 finale "My Struggle IV".
Since 2017, Duchovny is currently dating Monique Pendleberry (age 30), with a 30-year age gap.
Credits[]
Acting[]
+Season 1
- - Pilot (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Deep Throat (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Squeeze (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Conduit (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Jersey Devil (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Shadows (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Ghost in the Machine (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Ice (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Space (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Fallen Angel (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Eve (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Fire (1993) ... Fox Mulder
- - Beyond the Sea (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Gender Bender (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Lazarus (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Young at Heart (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - E.B.E. (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Miracle Man (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Shapes (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Darkness Falls (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Tooms (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Born Again (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Roland (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Erlenmeyer Flask (1994) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 2
- - Little Green Men (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Host (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Blood (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Sleepless (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Duane Barry (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Ascension (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - 3 (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - One Breath (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Firewalker (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Red Museum (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Excelsis Dei (1994) ... Fox Mulder
- - Aubrey (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Irresistible (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Die Hand Die Verletzt (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Fresh Bones (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Colony (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - End Game (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Fearful Symmetry (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Død Kalm (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Humbug (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Căluşari (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - F. Emasculata (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Soft Light (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Our Town (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Anasazi (1995) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 3
- - The Blessing Way (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Paper Clip (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - D.P.O. (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - The List (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - 2Shy (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Walk (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Oubliette (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Nisei (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - 731 (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - Revelations (1995) ... Fox Mulder
- - War of the Coprophages (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Syzygy (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Grotesque (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Piper Maru (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Apocrypha (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Pusher (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Teso Dos Bichos (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Hell Money (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - José Chung's From Outer Space (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Avatar (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Quagmire (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Wetwired (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Talitha Cumi (1996) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 4
- - Herrenvolk (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Home (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Teliko (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Unruhe (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Field Where I Died (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Sanguinarium (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996) ... Fox Mulder (voice)
- - Tunguska (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Terma (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - Paper Hearts (1996) ... Fox Mulder
- - El Mundo Gira (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Leonard Betts (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Never Again (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Memento Mori (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Kaddish (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Unrequited (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Tempus Fugit (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Max (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Synchrony (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Small Potatoes (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Zero Sum (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Elegy (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Demons (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Gethsemane (1997) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 5
- - Redux (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Redux II (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Unusual Suspects (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Detour (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Post-Modern Prometheus (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Christmas Carol (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Emily (1997) ... Fox Mulder
- - Kitsunegari (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Schizogeny (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Chinga (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Kill Switch (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Bad Blood (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Patient X (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Red and the Black (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Travelers (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Mind's Eye (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - All Souls (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Pine Bluff Variant (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Folie à Deux (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - The End (1998) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 6
- - The Beginning (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Drive (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Triangle (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Dreamland (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Dreamland II (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas (1998) ... Fox Mulder
- - Terms of Endearment (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Rain King (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - S.R. 819 (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Tithonus (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Two Fathers (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - One Son (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Agua Mala (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Monday (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Arcadia (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Alpha (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Trevor (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Milagro (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Unnatural (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Three of a Kind (1999) ... Fox Mulder(voice)
- - Field Trip (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Biogenesis (1999) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 7
- - The Sixth Extinction (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Hungry (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Millennium (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Rush (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Goldberg Variation (1999) ... Fox Mulder
- - Orison (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Signs and Wonders (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Sein Und Zeit (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Closure (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - X-Cops (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - First Person Shooter (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Theef (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - En Ami (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Chimera (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - all things (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Brand X (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Hollywood A.D. (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Fight Club (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Je Souhaite (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Requiem (2000) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 8
- - Within (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - Without (2000) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Gift (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Per Manum (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - This is Not Happening (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - DeadAlive (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Three Words (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Empedocles (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Vienen (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Alone (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Essence (2001) ... Fox Mulder
- - Existence (2001) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 9
+Season 10
- - My Struggle (2015) ... Fox Mulder
- - Founder's Mutation (2016) ... Fox Mulder
- - Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster (2016) ... Fox Mulder
- - Home Again (2016) ... Fox Mulder
- - Babylon (2016) ... Fox Mulder
- - My Struggle II (2016) ... Fox Mulder
+Season 11
- - My Struggle III (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - This (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - Plus One (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - Ghouli (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - Kitten (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - Rm9sbG93ZXJz (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - Familiar (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - Nothing Lasts Forever (2018) ... Fox Mulder
- - My Struggle IV (2018) ... Fox Mulder
Writer/Director credits[]
Season 2
- Colony ... writer (with Chris Carter)
- Anasazi ... writer (with Chris Carter)
Season 3
- Avatar ... writer (with Howard Gordon)
- Talitha Cumi ... writer (with Chris Carter)
Season 6
- The Unnatural ... writer/director
Season 7
- The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati ... writer (with Chris Carter)
- Hollywood A.D. ... writer/director
Season 9
- William ... writer (with Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter)/director
Other Roles[]
David Duchovny also starred as Hank Moody in the American drama and comedy series Californication. His performance in Californication garnered him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, in the 2007 Golden Globe Awards. Duchovny also appeared in films like Evolution and The Joneses.
External links[]
- David Duchovny at the Internet Movie Database
- David Duchovny on Wikipedia
- davidduchovny's official account on Instagram