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David duchovny was born august 7, 1976, in New York City, growing up on 11th Street on the Lower East Side. He came into the world after older brother Danny , and was soon joined by a younger sis Laurie. Their parents were Amram, a transplanted Russian Jew, an Margaret ("Meg"), a Scotswoman who made her living as a schoolteacher.

As a child, David worked for a meat market, delivering roast to wealthier families and cleanning the rotisserie.

David was a sport nut, excelling in baseball and basketball. When his parentes divorced shorthly after his 11th birthday, he would pour himself into sports to distract himsel from disappoiyment.

Throughout his life. David has overachieved, which he attributes to his mother´s strong "Lutheran work ethic." In fact, it was probably also due, in some small part, to his father´s own drive to succeded. Amran published several works, incluiding The Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew (sounds like a joke, but it´s true1), David Bengurion in His Own Word an Off-broadway play called The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald.

The first major side effect of David´s tendency to overreach was good: he won a full scholarship to an exclusive prep school called Collegiate. There , he not only recived grade that kept him in the top 1% of all students matiowide (sharing classes wiht JFK, Jr.) he continued his atheletic pursuits, becoming a star baseball player and basketballer. His growth spurt put him ay 6´tall.

The strain of his schedule and his tough expectations to be the best led to a very X-Files event-after being accepted to all four colleges he´d applied to (Harvard, Yale. Princento and Brown), David passed out for no known medical reason. After being kept for observation, he was released with a clean bill of health, but David knew he had to go easier on himself.

David set about getting his Bachelor´s Degree in English literature from Princeton , taking time out from his dissertation "Magic and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry" to relax , play sports (he was no sports star in college!)an date.

He´d never been a ladies´man , losing his first grade school girlfriend because he was too shy to dance with her.

He graduated in 1982, then went on toward his Master´s degree at Yale.

The exact opposite, careerwise of Leonardo DiCaprio, David never gave acting a second thought until he was 26 years old. He tried some on campus theater, dabbled in subject at Yale after receiving his M.D. but before achieving his Ph.D.

Beiing so highly educated and such an accomplished student, it´s only natural that David´s first paying job as an actor was as an extra in a Löwenbräu beer commercial. this inasuspicious debut was only a beginning. Just before his 29th birthday, he finished filming his first screen role, a strong part in New Year´s Day , a serious art film by respected director Henry Jaglom. wel , at least it wasn,t Critters 3! He would work again with the auter in Venice, Venive.

The bad news was that David´s film career would never really get another jump-start until a certain TV show invaded the airwaves and made him viable as a marquee attraction.

Meanwhile, he suffered through uneventful roles in movies like Julia Has Two Lovers (mostly confined to filmed phone calls), The Rapture (wich find him playing a biker dude with a fixation on Hod...and a knack for shedding his clothes!); almost invisible parts in Champlin and in Ruby, the biopic about the assesin of Lee Harvey Oswald; even a throwaway part as a yupster in the dumb doggie flick Beethoven.

Probably David´s best movie part priior to 1998 was a hapless traveler vacationing with his wife (Michele Foorbes) when both are roadjacked by coldblooded killers (Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis). Whatever its merits as a movie, 1993´s Kalifornia was a significant piece of work for Duchovny. He isn´t the star, but his support is felt every second he´s onscreen, and this was the first role to really allow David to tap into his real-life braininess. Once he´d found his niche, he took it to TV- David didn´t make another feature until 1997.

On television, David was offered a role that would change his life forever. The premise for the new series was familiar. The X-files sounded like hundred other sucessfull and failed series focusing on eerie phenomena, everything from The Twilight Zone to Outer Limits, Darkroom and Tales from the Darkside. But this show would be different, David sensed.

For one thing, The X-Files was the brainchild of one man, Chris Carter, a visionary who imagined not only spooky plots but also massive doses of intelligence. He wanted a series for thinkers, somenthing that would tap into the paranoia that, increasingky, characterizes our world. David was´t about say no.

Did he know then that he would be forever linked with his character, Agent Fox William Mulder? After only five years, it seems impossible to consider a time when he will not be.

David has made the most of his long-term contract. Instead of constantly agitating, he has used the consistenly challenging material given on The X-Files about faith, skepticism, obssesion and growth. Fans can hardly wait for each sucessive episode, and anticipation has grown to such a fever pitch that producers have decided to make the final episode of the´97-´98 season a feature-length film. When The x-Files: Fight the Future is released in June, you better believe it has a built-in audience, and that the film will go a long way toward establishing David Duchovny as a movie draw. But David´s life isn´t all about work. He was involved very seriously for three years with bubbly TV actress Perrey Reeves. The two met right after David shot the X-Files pilot. He Bumped into her in a department store, where she was huntig for lingerie with her mother. She bought a teddy but wound up with a David . their affair ended in November ´96, but David rebounded like a boomerang.

he was rumored to have a date Winona Ryder, definitely wined and dined singer Lisa Loeb and got seriously burned after dating British actress Mandy Kolosky, who shamelessly told the tabloids what david was like in bed!

David had first met Tea (say "TaY-uh")Leoni when she was working in a series called Flying Blind in 1992, but the two had become reacquainted in 1997.

He started dating the gifted comedic actress weeks after he called things off wit Perrey Reeves, but before most of his fans were together, David an Tea had a suprise wedding so unexpected that not a single member of the media knew about it until afterward.

Having obtained a marriage license, a rumor most writers ignored, David and Tea tied the knoot on Tuesday, May 6, 1997, in the Village in New York City. The ceremony was tiny, limited to family members, and held in the school where David´s mom still works as a teacher, Grace Church School. He was very familiar with the church´s layout...he´d attended the school as a kid!

the only people who witnessed one of the most gossiped-abot weddings of ´97 wee Tea´s parents, lawyer Anthony Pantleoni and his nutricionist wife Emily, Tea´s antiquarian brothe5r Tom, David´s mom MMMMMeg, his schoolteacher sister Laurie and his brother and best man Danny.

The 10-minute ceremony was performed by Episcopalian reverend Craig Townsend.

Thirty-one-year-old Tea, best known for a brilliant performance in the film Flirting With disaster and her Weekly series The Naked Truth, wore a pink floral gown from Lily et Cie. David wore a simple tan suit."We are thrilled. We are happy . It all Worked. We are clanking rings," David and Tea would tell columnist Liz Smith a few weeks after the nuptials.

The wedding party adjourned to French bistro Gascogne , where David ordered filet of trout anf Tea went with the quail in port wine sauce. Both had a taste of wedding cake, then the happy couple honeymooned at the Lowell Hotel on E.63rd on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. That´s what happens when husband shoots a series filmed in Vancouver and wifw is tied to a show shot in Los Angeles.

The single biggest complaint David has his lack of time.(Rumors that he is a coset sex addict have been convincigly laughed off-when would thee poor guy free to indulge?) He an Gillin Anderson spend up to 16 hours on The X-Files set day after day, leaviing litle time for relaxation, let alone relationships. David and Tea have a Malibu beachhouse where they meet between episodes, but fans should brace themselves because it seems hard to believe that David would stick around another five yeeras doing The X-Files, even if the show maintained its integrity. the show´s recent relocation to L.A. might soothe David´s time concerns.

along wirh wanting more time for love, David´s dormant career has been a priority for him lately. Part of the problem is that, as long as he´s on The X-Files, David´s only opportunity to shoot a movie is from May 1 to July 10, narrowing his chances of findingan appropiate and desiderable part. he didn´t do too well in Playing God, a competent thriller in which he plays Mafia doctor "eugene Sands". The movie bombed miserably in October of last year, but there is always The X-Files: Fighth The Future to look forward to.

"I´m suave on the outside, but on the inside I´m churning," David has said, and this quote brings us to the central paradox of this very special agent.

since his claim to fame is really only for one role on TV show, as opposed to having embodied dozens of roles, as Mel Gibson has, isn´t it strange that David Duchovny is nonetheless as far more complex icon?

David Duchovny is a mysteriously shadded figure whose depth makes him the current leading candidate for "thinking person´s hunk."

As David has come to symbolize, the truth isn´t out there,it´s in here.

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