David Duchovny
- Born: 7 Aug, 1960
The dark and handsome David Duchovny was well on his way to a Ph.D. at Yale when he caught the acting bug, leaving the ivied halls of academia forever. What was at first a lark (he was just raising money for school when he landed his first commercial for Lowenbrau beer) soon seemed far more appealing than the cloistered life of a college professor. He scored a one-line bit as a partygoer in "Working Girl" (1988), and then Henry Jaglom cast him as a womanizer in "New Year's Day" (1989), setting the precedent for a sexy screen persona in much of his early work, notably opposite Mimi Rogers in Michael Tolkin's brilliant, flawed apocalyptic tale "The Rapture" and in "Julia Has Two Lovers" (both 1991). A small role as a greedy yuppie in "Beethoven&qu...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Amram Duchovny: divorced from Duchovny's mother c. 1971; living in Paris c. 1998; originally from Coney Island, Brooklyn
- mother Margaret Duchovny: divorced from Duchovny's father c. 1971; born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland
- brother Daniel Duchovny: older
- sister Laurie Duchovny: younger
- daughter Madelaine West Duchovny: born on April 24, 1999; mother, Tea Leoni
- son Kyd Miller Duchovny: born on June 15, 2002; mother Tea Leoni
- Perrey Reeves: together from 1993 to 1995
- wife Tea Leoni: married on May 6, 1997 in the courtyard of NYC's Grace Church School where Duchovny's mother worked
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