David Duchovny
{{Short description|American actor, writer, and musician (born 1960)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = David Duchovny
| image = David Duchovny by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Duchovny at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con
| birthname = David William Ducovny
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|8|7}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| education = Princeton University (BA)
Yale University (MA)
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actor
- writer
- singer-songwriter}}
| known for = Fox Mulder in The X-Files
Hank Moody in Californication
| yearsactive = 1987–present
| father = Amram Ducovny
| spouse = {{marriage|Téa Leoni|1997|2014|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Monique Pendleberry|2025}}
| children = 2, including West Duchovny
| relatives = Daniel Duchovny (brother)
| website = {{URL|davidduchovny.com}}
}}
David William Duchovny ({{IPAc-en|d|ᵿ|ˈ|k|ɒ|v|n|i}} {{Respell|duu|KOV|nee}}; born {{birth date|1960|08|07}}){{cite news |last=Brady |first=James |date=2006-08-06 |title=In Step with David Duchovny |page=Parade 26 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |quote=Born Aug. 7, 1960, in New York City.}} is an American actor, writer, and musician. He received his breakthrough with the role of Fox Mulder in The X-Files franchise, earning Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received another Golden Globe for his portrayal of Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014) and executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–2016).
His film work includes minor roles in the coming-of-age black comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), and the family comedy Beethoven (1992). Also in 1992, he played Roland Totheroh in the biographical comedy-drama Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr. In the 2000s, he starred in Return to Me with Minnie Driver (2000), Evolution with Orlando Jones (2001), Connie and Carla with Nia Vardalos (2004), House of D with Robin Williams (2004), and The Joneses with Demi Moore (2009).
Duchovny holds a B.A. in English literature from Princeton University, and an M.A. in English literature from Yale University, and has published five books: Holy Cow: A Modern-Day Dairy Tale (2015), Bucky F*cking Dent (2016), Miss Subways (2018), Truly Like Lightning (2021), and The Reservoir (2022).
Early life and education
File:JFK Jr & David Duchovny in the 1975 Collegiate school yearbook.jpg in 9th grade in the 1975 Collegiate yearbook]]
Duchovny was born in New York City in 1960.{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=August 9, 2013|issue=1271|page=22}} He is the son of Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee, and Margaret "Meg" ({{née}} Miller), a school administrator and teacher.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/arts/amram-ducovny-75-late-blossoming-novelist.html | work=The New York Times | title=Amram Ducovny, 75, Late-Blossoming Novelist | first=Don R. | last=Hecker|date=September 2, 2003|access-date=May 1, 2010}}Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/65/David-Duchovny.html |title=David Duchovny Biography (1960-)|publisher=Film Reference |access-date=March 21, 2011}} He is the middle child of three children. He has an elder brother, Daniel (b. 1956) and a younger sister, Laurie (b. 1966).{{cite web |title=Happy Birthday Meg Miller Duchovny! The double snowman—88! We love you! Danny David and Laurie |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BeLW113HL4S/ |website=instagram.com}} Duchovny's mother is a Scottish immigrant from Whitehills, Aberdeen, Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAxE3-7IMGY#t=102s| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206143039/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=DAxE3-7IMGY| archive-date=2011-02-06|title=Craig Ferguson 8/10/10C Late Late Show David Duchovny|publisher=YouTube |access-date=March 21, 2011}}... my father being a Russian Jew ....
{{cite web |url=http://duchovny.net/articles/radiotimes2.htm |title=My Kind of Day - David Duchovny |publisher=Radio Times |date=Dec 1995 |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331232341/http://duchovny.net/articles/radiotimes2.htm |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }}My relatives are Scottish, so I think my Scottish audience is important. Some are in Glasgow, but my mum's from Aberdeen. I hear it's grey there—like my mum. The name's Russian, but New York is my home. That's where I'm from.
His father was Jewish, and his mother was Lutheran.{{cite web|url=http://duchovny.net/articles/latimes1026.htm|title=David Duchovny DuchovnyNet - Article: A Man and His 'X'|publisher=Duchovny.net|date=October 26, 1997|access-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119064603/http://duchovny.net/articles/latimes1026.htm|archive-date=January 19, 2013|url-status=dead}}I like that I look like my father and mother put together—that's a Russian Jew and a Scottish Lutheran, and I like that it all looks mixed up. ... I'm sure my nose wasn't an asset until I was David Duchovny. Before that, it was, like, "Yeah, that kind of Jewish-looking guy with the kind of big nose."
{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/david-duchovny-my-fantasy-was-to-be-nietzsche-731728.html|title=David Duchovny: 'My fantasy was to be Nietzsche'|work=The Independent|date=June 10, 2004|access-date=May 5, 2018}}{{cite web|first=Vladimir|last=Kozlov|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-david-duchovny-stars-russian-721915|title=David Duchovny's Russian Beer Commercial Goes Viral (Video)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 29, 2014|access-date=May 5, 2018}}{{cite magazine|first=David|last=Wild|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/x-files-undercover-19960516|title=X-Files Undercover|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=May 16, 1996|access-date=May 5, 2018}} His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.{{cite web|url=http://duchovny.net/articles/culttimes.htm|title=David Duchovny DuchovnyNet - Article: Cult Times 1997|publisher=Duchovny.net|access-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124023415/http://duchovny.net/articles/culttimes.htm|archive-date=January 24, 2008|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/84|title=Groucho Reviews: Interview: David Duchovny—House of D, Twin Peaks—03/30/05|author=Peter Canavese|work=GrouchoReviews}} In the Polish language, duchowny means 'clergyman', and in the Ukrainian language it means 'spiritual'. Duchovny's paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Ukraine, and Duchovny's paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Congress Poland (now in Poland).{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/was-david-duchovnys-famil_b_5635205.html | work=The Huffington Post | title=Was David Duchovny's Family From Ukraine or Russia?|date=July 30, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/rcr-media-group/david-duchovny-interview-for-phantom/357122877670319|title=David Duchovny Interview for "Phantom"|work=facebook.com}}{{cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2013/02/27/david_duchovny.php|title=Five Minutes With David Duchovny|work=Gothamist|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510151514/http://gothamist.com/2013/02/27/david_duchovny.php|archive-date=May 10, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/08/20/47060-a-literary-classic-of-coney-island-comes-to-digital-life/|title=A Literary Classic of Coney Island Comes to Digital Life|work=thebrooklynink.com|access-date=August 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211110957/http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/08/20/47060-a-literary-classic-of-coney-island-comes-to-digital-life/|archive-date=December 11, 2014|url-status=usurped}}
Duchovny grew up in the Ukrainian Village area of Manhattan{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/who-does-david-duchovny-think-he-is#:~:text=Does%20she%20read%20them?,I'm%20gonna%20dissolve.%E2%80%9D |title=Who Does David Duchovny Think He Is? |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Paumgarten |first=Nick |date=February 1, 2021 |access-date=January 23, 2025 |url-access=subscription}} and attended The Collegiate School For Boys in Upper West Side, Manhattan (where he was a classmate of John F. Kennedy Jr.The Dutchman (the Collegiate School yearbook), 1975 edition, p. 43 (9th grade photos)), from which he graduated as head boyHead Boy Plaque (wall at the Collegiate School) in 1978. He then attended Princeton University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 1982 with an A.B. in English literature.{{cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/uwpbk/famous.htm|title = PBK Famous Members}} He was a member of 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. The title of his senior thesis was "The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels".Duchovny, David William. [http://libweb5.princeton.edu/theses/index.htm The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527042623/http://libweb5.princeton.edu/theses/index.htm |date=May 27, 2019 }} 1982. He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton.{{cite web|last1=Greenfield|first1=Jimmy|last2=Malcolm|first2=Chris|title=Athletes in Action|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/02/25/athletes-in-action-3/|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=December 10, 2016|date=February 25, 2004}} He earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis is Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.{{cite web|last1=Motzkin|first1=Lauren|title=Duchovny delights|url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2009/03/02/duchovny-delights/|website=Yale Daily News|access-date=December 10, 2016|date=March 2, 2009}}
=Roots=
Duchovny's great-great-grandfather and his family were from Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), and immigrated to Jaffa, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1914 his ancestors were among 6,000 Jews who were forcibly removed from their homes by Ottoman police and deported by ship to Egypt.{{Cite web |last=Zaltzman |first=Lior |date=2023-02-13 |title=David Duchovny Learns His Family's Tragic Jewish History on 'Finding Your Roots' |url=https://www.kveller.com/david-duchovny-learns-his-familys-tragic-jewish-history-on-finding-your-roots/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Kveller |language=en}}{{Citation |title=Finding Your Roots {{!}} Chosen {{!}} Season 9 {{!}} Episode 7 {{!}} PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/chosen/ |language=en |access-date=2023-02-16}}
Career
Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. The next year he appeared in Working Girl (1988). He 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. In 1992, he played the role of Rollie Totheroh in the biographic film Chaplin, directed by Richard Attenborough and based on the life of Charlie Chaplin. In 1992 he had a small role in the family film Beethoven.
File:David Duchovny 2011 Shankbone.JPG in April 2011]]
In 1993, 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. The show evolved into a cult hit and became one of The Fox Network's first major television hits. According to The X-Files creator Chris Carter, Duchovny turned out to be one of the best-read people he knew.{{cite web |last= Carter |first= Chris |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/xfiles/interviews/carter/clip0.shtml |title=Casting Mulder |work=BBC News |access-date=July 12, 2009}} After getting the role, Duchovny thought the show would not last for long or make as much impact as it did. Executive producer Frank Spotnitz called Duchovny "amazingly smart". Spotnitz further stated that Duchovny was behind some of the main characteristic ideas behind Mulder.{{cite web |last= Spotnitz |first= Frank |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/xfiles/interviews/spotnitz/page6.shtml |title=Amazingly Smart |work=BBC News|access-date=July 12, 2009}} Also in 1993, Duchovny was cast alongside Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis in the Dominic Sena-directed thriller Kalifornia.
During The X-Files run, in between the fifth and sixth seasons, Duchovny co-starred alongside Gillian Anderson in a 1998 film also titled The X-Files that continued the storyline. He remained with the series until leaving the show in 2001, partly because of a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming.{{cite news| url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1337685.stm |date= May 18, 2001 |title= Duchovny quits X-Files |work= BBC News | access-date= March 19, 2015}} 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 Mulder character in the episode "The Springfield Files" of the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Duchovny has been nominated for four Emmy Awards.[http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/david-duchovny David Duchovny] at Emmys.com
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. Many residents of Vancouver were upset with Duchovny over scripted jokes on Late Night with Conan O'Brien about the city's heavy rainfall, including one where he joked, "Vancouver is a very nice place if you like 400 inches of rainfall a day." (Duchovny's character Mulder would later reference this joke in the Season 5 episode "Schizogeny.") 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."{{cite web|url=http://www.mjq.net/xfiles/dd-wet.htm |title=Mike Roberts, Vancouver Province|publisher=Mjq.net|date=October 16, 1997 |access-date=March 21, 2011}} During the run of The X-Files, he also made several guest appearances in the cult TV satire The Larry Sanders Show, playing a fictionalized version of himself who is very attracted 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.
File:Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny (cropped).jpg at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con for The X-Files 20th Anniversary panel]]
Duchovny has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live twice (May 13, 1995, and May 9, 1998). Both shows were season finales. In 1997 he played lead role as a disgraced doctor with a drug problem who after losing his medical license, takes a job with the mob in the film Playing God. 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 starred as Ira Kane in the sci-fi comedy film Evolution, alongside Seann William Scott, and had a cameo as hand model J.P. Prewitt in the Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander. 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 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 in the 2003 video game XIII. In 2003 Duchovny starred in the 84th{{cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/city/episode/season6/episode84.shtml |title=Boy, Interrupted |publisher=Hbo.com |access-date=March 21, 2011}} 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 provided the voice-over for a PSA radio campaign for Act Against Violence.{{cite AV media|date=January 14, 2005|people=David Duchovny (voice-over)|language=en |title=Act Against Violence|publisher=chemistri (ad agency on behalf of The Ad Council) in conjunction with Gold Sound|location=United States|medium=CD (for radio station use)}} 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 then-wife Téa Leoni in a coming-of-age tale. It received mostly poor reviews{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_of_d/ |title=House of D |date=April 15, 2005 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=March 21, 2011}} and little box office success.{{cite web |title=House of D |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0372334/?ref_=bo_se_r_13 |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=November 23, 2022}} Duchovny also directed "Judas on a Pole," an episode of Bones, during the show's second season.
From 2007 to 2014, Duchovny played the troubled, womanizing novelist Hank Moody in the Showtime series Californication. The portrayal landed him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical in 2007.{{cite web|url= http://www.goldenglobes.org/news/id/81|title= Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2008 Golden Globe Awards For The Year Ended December 31, 2007| publisher= HFPA| year= 2007 | access-date= December 13, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071214020838/http://www.goldenglobes.org/news/id/81|archive-date = December 14, 2007}} In March 2014, NBC announced that a new TV series, entitled Aquarius, would be produced starring Duchovny. Duchovny portrayed a 1960s police sergeant investigating small-time criminal and budding cult leader Charles Manson.{{cite web |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/03/31/nbc-greenlights-13-episodes-of-aquarius-a-charles-manson-drama-starring-david-duchovny/249637/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403033616/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/03/31/nbc-greenlights-13-episodes-of-aquarius-a-charles-manson-drama-starring-david-duchovny/249637/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 3, 2014 |title=NBC Greenlights 13 Episodes of 'Aquarius', Starring David Duchovny as a Cop Tracking Charles Manson (Updated) |last=Bibel |first=Sara |date=March 31, 2014 |work=TV by the Numbers |access-date=March 31, 2014}} In March 2015, Duchovny was announced as returning in a six-episode continuation of The X-Files.{{cite web|title=David Duchovny Calls Mulder "the Worst F.B.I. Agent of All Time"|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3337929/david-duchovny-calls-mulder-worst-f-b-agent-time/|website=Bloody Disgusting|access-date=August 20, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Fox Confirms 'X-Files' Reboot Talks, David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson To Return: Update|url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/x-files-reboot-talks-fox-1201352465/|website=Deadline|access-date=August 20, 2014}} It premiered on January 24, 2016, on Fox.
In 2015, Duchovny released his debut album, Hell or Highwater, and has released two more albums since then--Every Third Thought and Gestureland. He has also released four novels: Holy Cow (2015), Bucky F*cking Dent (2016), Miss Subways (2018), Truly Like Lightning (2021), and a novella, The Reservoir (2021). In 2022, Duchovny released the film Reverse the Curse (based on his novel Bucky F*cking Dent), which he wrote, directed, and acted in.
Personal life
Duchovny and actress Téa Leoni married on May 13, 1997.{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122178,00.html|work=People|date=May 19, 1997|volume=47|issue=19|title=Altared State: David Duchovny and Téa Leoni Tie the Knot|first=Tom|last=Gliatto|access-date=August 10, 2014|archive-date=August 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203554/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122178,00.html|url-status=dead}} They have two children, daughter West Duchovny, born in April 1999,{{cite tweet |author=David Duchovny |user=davidduchovny |number=988875468651843584 |title=April 24, 1999. This happened. West happened. And I'll never be the same. Happy birthday, my daughter. Love, Dad |date=April 24, 2018}}{{cite news| url= https://parade.com/336650/kentucker/tea-leoni-on-her-new-role-as-madam-secretary-and-co-parenting-with-her-ex-david-duchovny/|title=Téa Leoni on Her New Role as Madam Secretary and Co-Parenting With Her Ex David Duchovny |date=September 19, 2014 |access-date= March 8, 2017| first=Ken|last= Tucker |work=Parade | archive-date=November 11, 2014| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141111001458/http://parade.com/336650/kentucker/tea-leoni-on-her-new-role-as-madam-secretary-and-co-parenting-with-her-ex-david-duchovny| url-status=live}} and a son, Kyd Duchovny, born in June 2002.{{cite journal |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M. |date= June 18, 2002 |url= http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,624084,00.html |title= Leoni, Duchovny: And Baby Makes Four |journal= People |issn= 0093-7673 |access-date= March 8, 2017 |archive-date= March 8, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170308174415/http://people.com/celebrity/leoni-duchovny-and-baby-makes-four/ |url-status=dead}}], according to a statement issued to Reuters on Monday by the actors' publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details, including the newborn's name, were released.{{cite news |url= http://celebritybabies.people.com/2008/02/15/tea-leoni/ |title= Téa Leoni and Kyd Miller spend a fun day in Malibu |work= People |date= February 15, 2008 |access-date= March 8, 2017 |archive-date= January 23, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150123061939/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2008/02/15/tea-leoni |url-status=live}}
In 2008, the couple separated;{{cite web |last=Fleeman|first=Mike|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20233501,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017033923/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20233501,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 17, 2008 |title=David Duchovny & Téa Leoni Separated 'For Several Months'|publisher=People|date=October 15, 2008|access-date=March 21, 2011}} Duchovny received treatment for sex addiction from August to October.{{Cite news|title=David Duchovny's Sex Rehab Not Because Of Affair: Report |newspaper=Huffington Post|date=February 10, 2008|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/david-duchovnys-sex-rehab_n_122901.html}}{{Cite news|title=Duchovny enters rehab for sex addiction |newspaper=MSNBC |date=August 28, 2008|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/duchovny-enters-rehab-sex-addiction-wbna26446132}} Claims by the Daily Mail that he had an affair with Hungarian tennis instructor Edit Pakay led to legal threats{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/David-Duchovny-sues-27488.aspx|title=The Ex Files: David Duchovny Sues Paper over Affair Story|work=TV Guide|date=October 21, 2008 |access-date=October 22, 2008}} and a retraction by the paper on November 15.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/05/david-duchovny-xfiles-mulder-gillian-anderson |title=David Duchovny: 'I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene' |work=The Guardian |last=Schilling |first=Dave |date=February 5, 2016 |access-date=August 15, 2022}} In 2009, Duchovny and Leoni reunited but separated again on June 29, 2011.{{cite web|title=Scoop – Vol. 76 No. 2|url=http://people.com/archive/scoop-vol-76-no-2/|website=People|access-date=December 10, 2016|date=July 18, 2011}} Duchovny filed for divorce in June 2014, and the couple had agreed to settlement terms by that August.{{cite news |url= http://www.people.com/article/david-duchovny-tea-leoni-divorce |title= David Duchovny and Téa Leoni Are Divorcing |last=Leon |first=Anya |work= People |date= August 9, 2014 |access-date= August 10, 2014}} On May 22, 2025 it became public he had married long-time girlfriend Monique Pendleberry.{{cite web |title=David Duchovny Is Married to Longtime Girlfriend Monique Pendleberry| url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/david-duchovny-marries-monique-pendleberry-after-6-years-together/ |website=US Magazine}}
Duchovny is a pescetarian{{cite web|date=June 5, 2010|title=Men's Health - Celebrity Fitness - Success Secrets: David Duchovny|url=http://www.menshealth.com/celebrity-fitness/the-x-man-cometh|access-date=September 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605041401/http://www.menshealth.com/celebrity-fitness/the-x-man-cometh|archive-date=June 5, 2010}} and is supportive of environmentalism, and he is an enthusiast of electric vehicle technology. He made an appearance at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in support of the film Revenge of the Electric Car.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/driving/article/me-and-my-motor-david-duchovny-9hh66t5dh|title=Me and my Motor: David Duchovny|last1=Pearce|first1=Garth}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zimbio.com/photos/David+Duchovny/Carlos+Ghosen/Tribeca+Talks+After+Movie+Revenge+Electric/k7sg1SZ1IFz|title = David Duchovny Carlos Ghosen Photostream| work=Zimbio }}
Performances and works
=Film=
| class = "wikitable sortable"
!scope="col"| Year !scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !class="unsortable" |Notes | |||
| 1988 | Working Girl | Tess's Friend | Non-speaking |
| 1989 | New Year's Day | Billy | |
| rowspan=3|1990 | Denial | John | |
| Bad Influence | Club Goer | ||
| Julia Has Two Lovers | Daniel | ||
| rowspan=2|1991 | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Bruce | |
| The Rapture | Randy | ||
| rowspan=5|1992 | Ruby | Officer Tippit | |
| Beethoven | Brad Wilson | ||
| Red Shoe Diaries | Jake Winters | ||
| Venice/Venice | Dylan | ||
| Chaplin | Roland "Rollie" Totheroh | ||
| 1993 | Kalifornia | Brian Kessler | |
| 1997 | Playing God | Dr. Eugene Sands | |
| 1998 | The X-Files: Fight the Future | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | |
| 2000 | Return to Me | Bob Rueland | |
| rowspan=2|2001 | Evolution | Dr. Ira Kane | |
| Zoolander | JP Prewitt | ||
| 2002 | Full Frontal | Bill / Gus | |
| rowspan=2|2004 | Connie and Carla | Jeff | |
| House of D | Tom Warshaw | Also writer and director | |
| 2005 | Trust the Man | Tom | |
| rowspan=2|2006 | Queer Duck: the Movie | Tiny Jesus (voice) | |
| The TV Set | Mike Klein | ||
| rowspan=3|2007 | Things We Lost in the Fire | Brian Burke | |
| The Secret | Dr. Benjamin Marris | ||
| Quantum Hoops | Narrator | ||
| 2008 | The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Fox Mulder | |
| 2009 | The Joneses | Steve Jones | |
| 2012 | Goats | Goat Man | |
| rowspan=2|2013 | Phantom | Bruni | |
| Louder Than Words | John Fareri | ||
| 2020 | The Craft: Legacy | Adam Harrison | |
| rowspan=2|2022 | The Bubble | Sean Knox | |
| The Estate | Richard | ||
| rowspan=4|2023 | You People | Arnold | |
| Reverse the Curse | Marty | Also writer and director | |
| Pet Sematary: Bloodlines | Bill Baterman | ||
| What Happens Later | William "Bill" Davis | ||
| rowspan=2|2024 | Adam the First | James | |
| Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World | Narrator | ||
| rowspan=2|TBA | Feel | TBA | Post-production |
| See You When I See You | TBA | Filming |
=Television=
| class = "wikitable sortable"
!scope="col"| Year !scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Role !scope="col" class="unsortable" |Notes | |||
| 1990–1991 | Twin Peaks | DEA Agent Denise Bryson | 3 episodes |
| 1992 | Baby Snatcher | David Anderson | Television film |
| 1992–1997 | Red Shoe Diaries | Jake Winters | 10 episodes |
| 1993–2002; 2016–2018 | The X-Files | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder | Main role, starred in 191 episodes also wrote and directed a few episodes. |
| rowspan=2|1995–1998 | The Larry Sanders Show | Himself | 3 episodes |
| | Saturday Night Live | Host / himself | 2 episodes | |
| 1995 | Eek! The Cat | Fox Mulder (voice) | Episode: "Eek Space 9" |
| rowspan=2|1996 | Frasier | Tom (voice) | Episode: "Frasier Loves Roz" |
| Space: Above and Beyond | Handsome Alvin | Episode: "R&R" | |
| rowspan=2|1997 | The Simpsons | FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder (voice) | Episode: "The Springfield Files" |
| Duckman | Richard (voice) | Episode: "The Girls of Route Canal" | |
| 1998 | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist | Himself | Episode: "Metaphors" |
| 2001 | The Lone Gunmen | Fox Mulder | Episode: #12 All About Yves |
| rowspan=2|2002 | Primetime Glick | Himself | 2 episodes |
| Life with Bonnie | Johnny Volcano | 2 episodes | |
| 2003 | Sex and the City | Jeremy | Episode: "Boy, Interrupted" |
| 2007–2014 | Californication | Hank Moody | 84 episodes |
| 2015–2016 | Aquarius | Sam Hodiak | 26 episodes |
| 2016 | Better Things | Himself | Episode: "Brown" |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks | Denise Bryson | Episode: "Part 4" |
| 2021 | The Chair | Himself | Episode: "The Last Bus in Town" |
| 2021–2023 | Ten Year Old Tom | Ice Cream Man (voice) | 6 episodes |
| 2023 | History of the World, Part II | Howard Cosell impersonator | Episode: "VIII" |
| 2024 | The Sympathizer | Ryan Glenn/Thespian | 3 episodes |
| 2025
|Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny |Himself |10 episodes | |||
| 2025 | Malice | Jamie Tanner | Post production |
=Video games=
| class = "wikitable"
!scope="col"| Year !scope="col"| Title !scope="col"| Voice role | ||
| 1998 | The X-Files Game | Fox Mulder |
| 2003 | XIII | Jason Fly |
| 2004 | The X-Files: Resist or Serve | Fox Mulder |
| 2005 | Area 51 | Ethan Cole |
=Audiobooks=
- 2015: Audiobook To Legend He Goes: A Tale from The Legend of Drizzt{{cite book|title=To Legend He Goes: A Tale from The Legend of Drizzt: R. A. Salvatore, David Duchovny: 9781501257933: Amazon.com: Books|isbn=1501257935}}
- 2017: Audiobook X-Files - cold cases - an Audible original
- 2017: Audiobook X files - stolen lives - an Audible original
=Bibliography=
- 2011: Introduction to: Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference {{ISBN|978-1-4384-3734-7}}.
- 2015: Holy Cow: A Modern-Day Dairy Tale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux {{ISBN|978-0-374-17207-7}}.
- 2016: Bucky F*cking Dent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux {{ISBN|978-0-374-11042-0}}.
- 2018: Miss Subways: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux {{ISBN|978-0-374-21040-3}}.
- 2021: Truly Like Lightning: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux {{ISBN| 978-0-374-27774-1}}.
- 2022: The Reservoir: A Novella, Akashic Books {{ISBN| 978-1-636-14044-5}}.
- 2022: Kepler, Dark Horse Books {{ISBN| 978-1506733456}}.
=Discography=
See also
References
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- The Washington Post Interview with David Duchovny, April 2007 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041900612.html David Duchovny and the Drama of Television]
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