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David Duchovny Biography

David Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for playing FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.

David appeared in both X-Files films, the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). David executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–16). He earned a A.B. in English literature from Princeton University, and an M.A. in English literature from Yale University, and has since published three books, Holy Cow: A Modern-Day Dairy Tale in 2015, Bucky F*cking Dent in 2016 and Miss Subways in 2018.

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David was born on August 7, 1960 in New York. He is 58 years old as of 2019 January.

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David stands at a height of 1.84 m.

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David was born in New York. He is the son of Margaret “Meg” (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram “Ami” Duchovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.

His  mother is a Scottish Presbyterian emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. David’s father was Jewish and his  paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine).  His paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Russian Poland (now in Poland). David’s father dropped the his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.

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David attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys which are both located in Manhattan. In 1982 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with an A.B. summa cum laude in English literature. David was a member of Charter Club, one of the university’s eating clubs.

His poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1982. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett’s Early Novels.  At Princeton He played junior varsity basketball.  From Yale University he earned himself a Master of Arts in English Literature 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.

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On May 13, 1997 David married actress Téa Leoni.  Leoni gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny on April 24 1999. They welcomed their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, on June 15, 2002. David is a former vegetarian and, as of 2007, is a pescetarian.

David announced on August 28, 2008 that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. David’s and his wife representatives issued a statement revealing they had separated several months earlier. A week later, David’s lawyer said that he planned to sue the Daily Mail over an article it ran that claimed he had had an affair with Hungarian tennis instructor Edit Pakay while married to Leoni, a claim that Duchovny has denied.

The Daily Mail retracted their claims. After getting back together, they once again split on June 29, 2011. David declared in 2012 that, he was still married to Leoni, though they were separated.  In June 2014 their divorce was finalized.

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David is rumored to be dating Monique Pendleberry. Their relationship is said to be growing strong. David is 33 years older than the UC Irvine alum Moique. Neither the actor or Pendleberry have addressed their relationship status publicly.

David Duchovny Books

• 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.

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David released his first music album entitled Hell or Highwater on May 12, 2015, which consists of 12 songs.

He released his second album entitled Every Third Thought on February 9, 2018.

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David started starring in the science fiction series The X-Files in 1993, as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a conspiracy theorist who believed his sister had been abducted by aliens. This show evolved into a cult hit and quickly became one of The Fox Network’s first major television hits. According to Chris Carter X-Files creator David turned out to be one of the best-read people he knew. After David got the role, he thought the show would not last for long or that it would not make as much impact as it did.  Frank Spotnitz executive producer called David”amazingly smart”. He further stated that David was behind some of the main characteristic ideas behind Mulder. In 1993, David was cast alongside Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis, in the Dominic Sena-directed thriller Kalifornia.

When  The X-Files was running, in between the fifth and sixth seasons, David co-starred alongside Gillian Anderson in simply titled The X-Files, a 1998 motion picture that continued the X-Files storyline.  David remained with the series until quitting in 2001, partly because of a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming.  He appeared in half of the season eight episodes, but did not appear in season nine until the series finale in 2002.

David was announced as returning in a six-episode continuation of The X-Files in March 2015 . It premiered on January 24, 2016, on FOX.

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NBC announced in March 2014,that a new TV series, entitled Aquarius, would be produced starring David. He portrayed a 1960s police sergeant investigating small-time criminal and budding cult leader Charles Manson.

David Duchovny Novel

• Miss Subways: A Novel
• Bucky F*cking Dent: A Novel Apr 05, 2016
• Holy Cow: A Novel Feb 03, 2015

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Following his character in David used to smoke.  The fictional character known as Cigarette Smoking Man (abbreviated CSM or C-Man; sometimes referred to as Cancer Man or the Smoking Man) and one of the primary antagonists of the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files. He serves as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder. In the show’s sixth season, his name is said to be C.G.B. Spender, but Dana Scully suggests this is one of “hundreds of aliases”; the show’s characters and fans continue to refer to him by variations of “the Smoking Man” because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes. In the eleventh season, he reveals his full name to be Carl Gerhard Busch.

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David starred as Ira Kane in the sci-fi comedy film Evolution in 2001, alongside Seann William Scott, and had a cameo as hand model J.P. Prewitt in the Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander.

Evolution is a comic science fiction film directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Julianne Moore, and Ted Levine. It was released by DreamWorks in the United States and by Columbia Pictures internationally. The plot of the film follows college professor Ira Kane (David Duchovny) and geologist Harry Block (Orlando Jones), who investigate a meteor crash in Arizona. They discover that the meteor harbors extraterrestrial life, which is evolving very quickly into large, diverse and outlandish creatures.

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David has played Hank Moody, a troubled, womanizing, novelist in Showtime’s series Californication. His role earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical in 2007.

Californication is a comedy-drama television series created by Tom Kapinos, which aired for seven seasons on Showtime from August 13, 2007 to June 29, 2014. The show is based on New Yorker Hank Moody (David Duchovny), a troubled novelist who moves to California and suffers from writer’s block. His drinking, womanizing, and drug abuse complicate his relationships with his longtime lover Karen (Natascha McElhone) and their daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). Hank struggles to find purpose in his life as he passes up multiple opportunities, eventually making the right decision for happiness

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David keeps himself in shape by doing Lagree Pilates at Los Angeles area Pilates Plus Opens a New Window. He has also competed in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon Opens a New Window. six times.  David is an avid runner, and follows an exercise routine of weightlifting and a variety of sports including basketball, swimming, boxing, and baseball. He  also considers himself to be a “very lazy vegetarian. I really don’t have any secrets to looking young; I just eat well. I exercise, take one-a-day vitamins,” he says. Opens a New Window. “On a health scale of 1 to 10, I’ll put my diet at a 9.”

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He had a small role in the family film Beethoven in 1992.

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