David Duchovny

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David Duchovny was born on August 7th 1960 in New York, New York. His father Amram Duchovny was famous publicist, divorced from david's mother Margaret in 1971. He was rised in NY with his siblings brother Daniel and older sister Laurie. In 1982, Duchovny, now 22, graduated from Princeton with a degree in English Literature. Two years later, he earned his masters degree from Yale and began work on his doctorate. He began commuting between Yale and New York and soon began appearing in off-Broadway plays. He quit his doctoral studies in order to concentrate on his acting career. From 1993 to 2001, 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. In a few years, we will see if his penchant for deadpan acting will make him a superstar or if he will disappear like many of the television stars before him.