He played many roles, but most of all he could be remembered as the mysterious and eccentric Fox Mulder from the series "The X-Files" and the eternally enamored lascivious "child of vice" Hank Moody from the series "Prurient California". Just these two images for a long time could penetrate the life of the famous American actor David William Duchovny.
Family Profession
In New York on August 7, 1960 in a family of immigrants from Scotland, a teacher of English literature in Margaret College, was born the second child, who was named David. Wakter has an older sister Laurie and a younger brother, Daniel. The father of the future actor was a Brooklyn born in a family of Jewish immigrants who came from the Ukraine. In addition to teaching, the head of the family was engaged in journalism and gave out paruknig. Despite the same occupation, three joint children and their feelings, David's parents were completely different people, which was the reason for their disruption. When the boy was 11 years old, his mother and father filed a divorce. Margaret with three children moved to New York and settled down the lower East Side. Despite the bad glory that constantly went about the region, the actor will more than once with great pleasure remember the times when he lived there.
Left alone, Margaret decided to make every effort to ensure that her children could get a good upbringing and education. By the way, it was Mother who influenced the character of David, she tried in every possible way from a self-enclosed boy to bring up a strong and persistent man. But despite the great love from his mother, the future actor was never a "mama's son" and very often he hid from her all his adventures. Even that, instead of the profession of a philologist, he began acting career, David, in order not to upset his mother, did not immediately report. Even his love adventures, which the boy started from the age of 14, he secretly kept from her. The thing is that Margaret had old-fashioned and firm beliefs on this account and she clearly would not have been delighted that her loved son at the age of 14 lost her virginity, and even with a girl for a year younger.
School boy finished with good grades and then go to the faculty of pedagogy at Prinston University, where he shows good results in his studies. Another year of the boy's summer was filled with a desire to try himself as a writer. Shortly he goes to graduate school at Yale University, where he receives a master's degree in English literature and prepares to defend his dissertation on the degree of philosophy.
When David turned 26 years old, he already taught classical English literature in Yale. It was at this age that he first debuted on stage, in the framework of one of the performances, decided by the theatrical circle. From that moment, Dukhovny felt as if something had changed in Dukhovny's soul and he could not live without actor's skill. The guy began to combine teaching at a university with evening training in a theater studio in Manhattan.
Finally, he decided to break with his profession and devote himself to the art of crafts in 1987. At this point, David is sampled napar low-budget paintings and filmed in advertising.
The beginning of time
The very first actor's debut on the television screen took place just in 1987 in one of the commercials of beer. After which he is content for a long time with episodic roles in minor theatrical productions and films. But this insignificant experience did not become a hindrance to getting to Hollywood. The debut of the big screen took place in 1988, when Dukhovny played an episodic role in Mike Nichols' "Business Girl".
A year later, the beginning and eccentric actor noticed the director David Lynch, who invited him to star in three episodes of the series "Twin Peaks." David played an agent of the service that deals with the fight against drugs, Denise Bryson, who was a transvestite. In this manner, the actor very much took a snap to another director Zalman King who, without thinking for a second, sent an invitation for the role of an ideal and lonely lover-narrator in his new picture "The Diaries of the Red Shoes", after this and the same-name erotic series.
Famous producer of the studio "XX Century Fox" Randy Stone noticed David Duchovny at one of the film festivals and recommended it to director Chris Karter. At this moment, and starred acquaintance Duchovny and Carter, in the future - the director of the "X-Files". So, in 1993, the actor's debut in this science fiction series, where he fell one of the key roles of FBI agent Fox Mulder. The "secret materials" broke all records and became the most popular series, which opened for David Duchovny the way to the pedestal of world recognition and fame. Seven seasons, the actor leaves the series, but sometimes continues to act in separate episodes. The final series, in which the actor starred, was in 2002. For this role, he has been rewarded with a lot of awards, as the best dramatic actor.
In parallel with the filming in the "X-Files", the actor of the paros was a participant in the cult satirical show "Lari Sanders", where he performed himself. The only thing that was involved was a homosexual attraction to Sanders. In addition to the series, the actor starred in more than 25 films, of which one should mention such as "Julia has two lovers" (1991), "California" (1993), "Picturing God" (1997), "Come Back to Me" (2000) ), "In all its glory" (2002), "Connie and Carla" (2004). Also, the actor was able to make his own film under the title "House D", where he himself played the main role.
By the way, he failed to completely forget about his professional background and he decided to flash his mind - he wrote several scripts for the series "X-Files". Dukhovny also writes for herself. Not so long ago, I published my poem and at the moment is actively working on the creation of a collection of poetry.
Since 2007, and to this day, David Duchovny plays a central role for writer Hank Moody, who has problems with his personal life in a comedy television series with erotic scenes "Prudent California." This role helped the actor get the Golden Globe Award, nominated in the category "Best Actor Series."
On a personal front
May 6, 1997, the wife of Duchovny was actress Tee Leoni, in the spring of 1999 a girl was born in the family Madelain West Duchovny. In 2002, she gave her husband the son of Kid Miller Dukhovny. After living together for 11 years, the actresses divorced, and David, in turn, loudly stated that he was suffering from hypersexuality. But in 2009 the ex-spouses reconciled again, and in 2011, happiness broke again, the "pitfalls", and they decided to live separately.
The actor can boast a huge number of hobbies, which leads a completely sportive lifestyle, because in addition to filming in the movie and writing poetry, he is actively engaged in baseball and basketball. The actor even was able to get to the star cast of the NBA team. Every year he takes part in the triathlon competitions, and also deals with the box, jogging and yoga.