David Duchovny

=David Duchovny=

Personal life
David Duchovny was born August 7, 1960 in New York. David's mother was a school administrator and his father was a teacher, writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.His father is from Ukraine and Poland and his mother is from Scotland. Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature and received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University. He began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. Duchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6, 1997. Their first child was born in April 1999, named Madelaine West Duchovny. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born in June 2002. Duchovny is also a former vegetarian and, as of 2007, is a pescetarian. On August 28, 2008, Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. In 2012 he declared that him and his wife are separated.

Career
Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. He had a recurring role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator and host in the TV series Red Shoe Diaries. In 1992, he played the role of Rollie Totheroh, in the film Chaplin, based on the life of Charlie Chaplin. 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 quickly became one of The Fox Network's first major television hits. Also in 1993, Duchovny was cast alongside Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis, in the Dominic Sena-directed thriller, Kalifornia. Duchovny has guest hosted Saturday Night Live twice. He also played Hank Moody, a troubled novelist in Showtime's series Californication. In March 2014, NBC announced that a new series, entitled Aquarius and starring him, has been ordered. David portrays a 1960s police sergeant investigating small-time criminal and budding cult leader Charles Manson.