David Duchovny: biography, news, photos and videos

It was at Yale University, where he studied literature, that David Duchovny began to take an interest in drama. At the end of the 1980s, after a few castings, he began acting in commercials. In 1988, he even appeared briefly in Mike Nichols' Working Girl. Two years later, he landed a first notable role in the series Twin Peaks, where he played, for three episodes, the role of a transvestite federal agent. David Duchovny could have remained confined to supporting roles or a minor career. His participation in the erotic series Red Shoe Diaries, from 1992, seems to attest to this. However, in 1993, he shared the lead role with Brad Pitt in the thriller Kalifornia, by Dominic Sena. But it was not the cinema that would bring him public recognition. That year, he played special agent Fox Mulder for the first time in the X-Files series, alongside Gillian Anderson. The actor threw himself fully into his role. Over the years, he didn't hesitate to write or direct certain episodes himself, even if it meant putting his film career on hold. After five seasons, it was thanks to Mulder that he returned to the big screen, with the first adaptation of the X-Files for the cinema. It was only after the seventh season that he decided to leave Chris Carter's series and his character, who had become all-consuming, and whom he would return to from time to time over the years. David Duchovny returned to the cinema in 2001 in Evolution, where he played the role of an… alien hunter. The following year, he appeared in Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal. In 2004, he directed his first film, The Prince of Greenwich Village. But once again, it was television that would allow him to return to the forefront. In the series Californication, he played the role of Hank Moody, an alcoholic writer addicted to sex, and won his second Golden Globe for his performance in 2007. The success of the series did not prevent the X-Files team from reuniting in 2008 for a second adaptation of the series for the cinema, The X-Files: Regeneration. In 2010, David Duchovny gave the first appearance opposite Demi Moore in The Jones Family, by Derrick Borte, a comedy-drama in which he plays the father of a false ideal family, in reality employed by a marketing company in order to make his neighbors want to acquire what his home has. The actor returned to the big screen in 2013 in the underwater thriller Phantom, in which he shared the bill with Ed Harris and William Fichtner.SM