- Name: David William Duchovny
- Born: August 7,1960 NY city, NY
- Height: 6'00" feet
- Weight: 170 pounds
- Hair: Brown
- Eyes: Hazel
- Hobbies: Reading,Sports(Basket ball,Baseball,Swimming,Jpgging,Yoga),Poem
Family
- wife: Tea Leoni (Actress, BornFebruary 25,1966 NY city, Married May 6,1997)
- daughter: Madelaine West Duchovny (April 24,1999)
- son: Kyd Miller Duchovny (June 15,2002)
- dog: Blue
- father: Amram Ducovny (Author,born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish parents)
- mother: Margaret (born in Scotland)
- brother: Daniel (4 year older)
- sister: Laurie (6years younger)
History
1960, David was born in New York.They lived in an apartmentin the northern section of the LowerEast Side. His four yeard old brother, Daniel was nicknamed him "Ugly" and "Big Nose", due to David's prominent nose and mouth.
1971, When David was eleven, his parents divorced. HIs mother Margaret, who was originally a house wife, became an elementary school teacher to support three children. David learned ot repress his emotions, burying them beneath a cool,calm exterior. So despite his charm and charisma,some find him to be emotionally distant and reserved.
1973, He received an academic scholarship to attend a prestigious Manhattan prep school for boys, Collegiate School,where John F. Kennedy Jr. was studying at the time. He also played basketball and baseball and did extremely well in that area as well,being nicknamed "Duke".
1982, He went on to Princeton University in Princeton.He majored in English literature, played baseball and held down a position ont the university basketball team.
While still in prep school,he had decided he wanted to become a writer, but lacked the bravery to attempt to survive as a writer alone. So he concluded he was to become a universtiy professor and write in his spare time. His undergraduate thesis,submitted in March of 1982,was entitled "The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels". I t is over 150 pages in length and alludes to Freud, Kafka, Dante, Nietzsche, Marx and Shakespeare as well as Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault.
He succeeded well enough to win a Mellon Fellowship to Yale University in Haven, Connecticut. He completed his master's degree and studied for oral examinations that would quality him for the M.A. for nine hours a day. However he did move on to his Ph.D, and after completing the necessary work, began his dissertation, "Magic and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry.
1987, He started making friends in the Yala Drama School during his second year and began to question whether or not he really wanted to become a teacher. Jason Beghe, his best friend from prep school,convinced David to try acting.He auditioned and got the part in a Lowenbrau beer commercial, where he got paid $9000 for tossing a pretzel in the air and catching it in his mouth.
This was twice what he was making for teaching at Yale.He continued his studies, but his ambition for the academic life was gradually slipping away. In 1987, after being cast in a film by Henry Jaglom, he quit Yale to pursue and actor's life.
David found that acting was an excellent way to release all the pent up emotions he had kept hidden for so many years, a form of therapy in a way. I n his first film "New Year's Day", he played Billy and thinks of the character as a version of himself. After he retuened to New York and studied with an acting teacher named Marsha Haufrecht at the Actors' Studio. There, he learned how to cry, yell, scream or laugh, opening himself up emotionally.
He appearedin two off-broadway plays, "The Copulation Machine of Venice,California" and "The Green Cockatto".
David and his friend Jason both attended bartending school, getting a job at a bar called Continental on 13th street in New York. They were eventually fired for drinking champagne at night because of the little business that the bar had. He moved to Los Angels,but that at first did not bring him any more acting roles.David worked for a catering company and wrote a couple of magazine articles.
1993, Little by little,David continues walking along a way as an actor steadily. And the role of FBI agent Fox Mulder in the TV series"The X-Files"Å@made his popularity establish. (Filmography) He writes some scripts in The X Files and directed it.
1997, He married actress Tea Leoni
1999, Daughter Madelaine west was born.
2001, He graduates from The X Files continued for eight years. He advances to the way of the movie which was his wish again.
He first visited Japan in June for the promotion of "Evolution."
2002, Son Kyd Miller was born.
2003, Father Amram Ducovny passed away.
David is also supporting various charity activities in addition to movie works. He is shooting the new movie "House of D" that he wrote the script.
Fan letter to David
David Duchovny
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1122 S.Robertson Blud. Los Angeles, CA90035,USA
