Duchovny is a former vegetarian and, as of 2007, is a pescetarian. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born in June 2002. In April 1999, Leoni gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. At Yale, he was a student of popular literary critic Harold Bloom.ĭuchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6, 1997. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. Duchovny played a season of junior varsity basketball as a shooting guard and centerfield for the varsity baseball team. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a B.A. His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.ĭuchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys both are in Manhattan. His mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father was Jewish, from a family that immigrated from the Russian Empire and Poland. He is the son of Margaret 'Meg' (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram 'Ami' Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee.

He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards Duchovny was born in New York City, New York in 1960. David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960, height 6' 0½' (1,84 m)) is an American actor, writer, and director.

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