David Duchovny

David Duchovny

Duchovny was born in New York City, New York, the son of Margaret "Meg" (n�e Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram Ducovny (Duchovny), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.^[1][2][3] Duchovny's paternal grandparents were Russian Jews and his mother is a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland.^[4][5][6] His father dropped the "h" in his surname because of frequent mispronunciations of the name.^[1] Duchovny's siblings are Daniel and Laurie Duchovny. He attended The Collegiate School For Boys in Manhattan and ultimately graduated from Princeton University.^[2] He also holds a Master's degree in English Literature from Yale University and began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished.^[2] The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was "Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose." At Princeton, Duchovny was a member of the Charter Club, one of the University's eating clubs, where upperclassmen take their meals. In 1982, while at Princeton, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets and the title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. Also while at Princeton, he played a season of junior varsity basketball, as a shooting guard, and two playing center field for the varsity baseball team.

David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor, best known for his roles as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.