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David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, best known for his roles as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as the character Hank Moody on Californication.
Early life
Duchovny was born in New York City, New York, the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram Ducovny (1927-2003),
]Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio Duchovny's paternal grandparents were Russian Jews and his mother is a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland. His father dropped the "h" in his surname because of frequent mispronunciations of the name. Duchovny's siblings are Daniel and Laurie Duchovny. He attended The Collegiate School For Boys in Manhattan.
Princeton
Duchovny graduated from Princeton University in 1982. He was a member of the 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, and the title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels.Duchovny, David William. The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. 1982. Duchovny played a season of junior varsity basketball, as a shooting guard, and two playing center field for the varsity baseball team.
Yale
Duchovny holds a Master's degree in English Literature from Yale University and 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.
Career
Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. He appears in two scenes in Working Girl (1988). He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator/host in the long-running Showtime erotica/softcore TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the sci-fi series The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a conspiracy theorist who believed his sister was abducted by aliens. The show emerged as a cult hit and quickly became one of The FOX Network's first major hits. During the show's run, in between the fifth and sixth seasons, Duchovny co-starred alongside Gillian Anderson in a 1998 motion picture that continued the X-Files storyline, titled The X-Files: Fight the Future. He remained with the series until quitting in 2001, partly due to a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming. Duchovny appeared in half of the season eight episodes, but did not appear in season nine until the series finale in 2002. He also provided the voice for a parody of his Fox Mulder character in an episode of The Simpsons, entitled The Springfield Files.
