DAVID DUCHOVNY: BIOGRAPHY
Name: David William Duchovny
DOB: August 7, 1960
Place of Birth: New York City, New York Height: 6'
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Identifying Mark: Mole on right cheek
Mother: Margaret "Meg", living in New York, of Scottish origin. Head-mistress at Grace Church School in New York.
Father: Amram "Ron" Ducovny, living in Europe (He dropped the "h" in his last name.) Written several plays and books including: "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" and "Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew". He is a Brooklyn born publicist for the American Jewish Commitee.
Siblings: Daniel (older),Laurie (younger)
Marital Status: Married to actress Téa Leoni Originally met through a luncheon with Tonight Show execs in 1992. Met again five years later in 1997, got married May 6th, 1997
Children: Daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny, born April 24, 1999. Son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, born 15 June 2002
Educational Information
At the age of 13, David won a scholarship to New York's Collegiate School, an elite private boys' school whose students included the likes of John F. Kennedy Jr. David's nicknames at school included "Duke" and "Doggie." After high school, David went to Princeton where he earned a Bachelor's (AB) degree for English literature in 1982. His senior thesis was "The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels." For his Master of Arts degree in English Literature, he went to Yale. David started his acting career at Yale while working on his dissertation, "Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose," which still remains unfinished.
AWARDS WON
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a TV series drama in 1997, American Comedy Award for best guest appearance in a comedy for his performance in The Larry Sanders Show: Flip, GQ Man of the Year 1998, TV Guide Award for best Actor in a drama series 1999. Nominated for 2 Emmys, 4 Golden Globes, and 4 SAG Awards all for his work as Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files.
FACTS
He is colour blind in his right eye. He had an accident while playing basketball in high school. He uses dye to keep the colour right and to keep the pupil from dilating too much. Duchovny learned to drive when he was 27. In 1996 he was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. He tried out for the replacing role (for Val Kilmer) of Batman in Batman & Robin (1997)
David Duchovny once seemed an unlikely candidate to become an actor. A native New Yorker, Duchovny attended Yale University, where he received a graduate degree in English literature to prepare for a career as a teacher. While at Yale, he began commuting to New York to study acting and was soon appearing in off-Broadway plays. In 1987, in the midst of his doctoral studies, he left Yale to pursue acting full time.
HOBBIES/INTERESTS
Sports: David enjoys basketball that he has shown on several occasions, including playing in MTV's Rock-n-Jock Charity basketball game. He also played on Princetons basketball team and has displayed his talent on the "Red Shoe Diaries" and "The X-Files". He also enjoys baseball and again he has played on MTV's Rock-n-Jock Charity Baseball game. He likes swimming, jogging and yoga.
Literature: He enjoys reading and writing poetry, and he likes the works of playwrite/actor Sam Shepard and the author Samuel Beckett.
FAVOURITES
Favorite Authors: Norman Mailer, Elmore Leonard and Thomas Pynchon
Favorite Playwright: Sam Shepard
Favorite TV Show: The Larry Sanders Show
Favorite Music/Bands: The Rolling Stones, the Black Crowes, Sly and the Family Stone, Seventies Funk, disco music
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, basketball, baseball, jogging, racquetball, and swimming.
Thanks to duchovny.net for some of this info.