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Win Golden Globes for both TV Drama and TV Comedy: Duchovny was the first to do so, and only Kelsey Grammer has since matched it in 2012.
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Filed a $25 million lawsuit against the producers and syndicators of The X-Files alleging he was cheated of his contractual share of profits.
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Speaks French, Hebrew, and Latin.
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Is a huge fan of Doctor Who and has expressed interest in appearing on the series as a villain.
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Very good friends with Nicholas Lea, who played his nemesis Alex Krycek on The X-Files.
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Checked himself into a rehabilitation center for sex addiction in 2008; completed rehab on October 7, 2008. He announced separation from Téa Leoni soon after, but they later reconciled.
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Loves dogs and had to attack a dog in a scene for The X Files: I Want to Believe which he hated.
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Made his film debut in Working Girl 1988 as a guest hiding in the bathroom at Tess McGill’s surprise party.
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Paternal grandfather Moshe Duchovny was a Jewish immigrant from Berdychiv now Ukraine; paternal grandmother was a Polish Jewish immigrant. Father Amram Ducovny died on August 23, 2003 from heart disease. Mother Margaret Miller is a Lutheran immigrant from Scotland. Has brother Daniel Ducovny, sister Laurie Birnbaum, and stepbrother Jonathan Sahula. The surname Duchovny means spiritual in Russian.
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His mother taught at Grace Church School in New York City and had a portion of the building named after her when she retired.
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Played scholarship-level basketball in high school and college; an accident while playing basketball damaged his right eye.
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Has an allergic reaction to metal that prevents him from wearing his wedding ring at times.
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While at Yale, was classmates with Jennifer Beals, whom he suggested for a role on The X-Files which went to Gillian Anderson.
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Birthday is two days before co-star Gillian Anderson; he is eight years her senior.
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Was ABD All But Dissertation when he left Yale; never received graduate degree. His uncompleted doctoral thesis was titled Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose.
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Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television on January 25, 2016.
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Has played Fox Mulder on five different series: The X-Files, Eek! The Cat, The Simpsons, The Lone Gunmen, and Millennium.
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First celebrity guest to appear on the premiere of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on January 3, 2005.
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Was best man at Mitch Pileggi’s second wedding.
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Partially responsible for moving the filming of The X-Files from Vancouver to California.
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Started off acting in soft porn films.
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Daughter West born April 24, 1999; son Kyd Miller born June 15, 2002.
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Does a very good impersonation of Jeff Goldblum, as demonstrated on Saturday Night Live.
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Appeared on the celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2000, winning $32,000 for charity.
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His last name means spiritual in Slovak and Czech.
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Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1996.
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Childhood friends with Jason Beghe, who was his best man when he married Téa Leoni.
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His last name spelled: duchowny means a clergyman in Polish.
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Is the only cast member of The X-Files to host Saturday Night Live.
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Is a die-hard fan of the New York Yankees.
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Was the subject of the song David Duchovny by Bree Sharp.
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Former boyfriend of Maggie Wheeler.
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Kept three dogs and four cats as a child.
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Celebrated his 10th birthday on Erraid, a small island off the west coast of Scotland.
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His parents split when he was 11.
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Former boyfriend of Perrey Reeves.
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Appeared on MTV’s Rock n Jock Softball Game’.
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Friends with actor Ron Eldard.
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Endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
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Stayed in 411 Witherspoon Hall his freshman year at Princeton University.
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Uncle of twin boys Gabriel and Luca born May 2004, sons of his sister Laurie.
