David Duchovny

David William Duchovny born August 7 1960 is an American actor writer and director He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The XFiles 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 He is the son of Margaret Meg née Miller a school administrator and teacher and Amram Ami Ducovny 19272003 a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee His father was Jewish from a family that immigrated from the Russian Empire and Poland His mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen Scotland His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys both are in Manhattan He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a BA in English Literature He was a member of Charter Club one of the universitys eating clubs In 1982 his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Becketts Early Novels Duchovny played a season of junior varsity basketball as a shooting guard and centerfield for the varsity baseball team He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a PhD that remains unfinished The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose At Yale he was a student of popular literary critic Harold Bloom Duchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6 1997 In April 1999 Leoni gave birth to a daughter Madelaine West Duchovny Their second child a son Kyd Miller Duchovny was born in June 2002 Duchovny is a former vegetarian and as of 2007 is a pescetarian On August 28 2008 Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction On October 15 2008 Duchovnys and Leonis representatives issued a statement revealing they had separated several months earlierA week later Duchovnys lawyer said that he planned to sue the Daily Mail over an article it ran that claimed he had an affair with Hungarian tennis instructor Edit Pakay while still married to Leoni a claim that Duchovny has denied On November 15 2008 the Daily Mail retracted their claims After getting back together Duchovny and Leoni once again split on June 29 2011