David Duchovny

David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singersongwriter. He is known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the scifi horror action drama show The XFiles and writer Hank Moody on the comedydrama series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny appeared in both of the two XFiles films, the 1998 science fictionthriller of the same name and the supernaturalthriller The XFiles I Want to Believe . As of May 2015, he has been executive producing and starring in the historically based cop drama Aquarius.

Duchovny was born in New York, New York, in 1960. He is the son of Margaret Meg , a school administrator and teacher, and Amram Ami Duchovny , a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. Duchovnys mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father was Jewish Duchovnys paternal grandfather was from Berdychiv, Russian Empire , and Duchovnys paternal grandmother was born in Russian Poland . His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.

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