David Duchovny Biography

David Duchovny starred in TV’s The X-Files as Fox Mulder, an oddball F.B.I. agent obsessed with government conspiracies and paranormal happenings. The show was a ratings winner and pop culture favorite during its run from 1993 to 2001, and it made stars of Duchovny and his sidekick, Gillian Anderson). Duchovny played Mulder in The X-Files: The Movie (1998) and went on to star in the romantic comedies Return to Me (2000) and Trust the Man (2006, with Eva Mendes). Duchovny also had a small but memorable role in the Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander (2001). Showtime cable television subscribers also knew Duchovny for his appearances throughout the 1990s in sexy series The Red Shoe Diaries. He returned to series television in 2007, playing novelist and hedonist Hank Moody in the cable show Californication). Duchovny and Anderson starred in another X-Files movie, X-Files: I Want to Believe, in 2008.