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The Grandma is a great fan of Fox Mulder, a fictional character played by David Duchovny, who celebrates today his birthday.
Congratulations!
David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
He is known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.
Duchovny appeared in both of the two X-Files films, the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).
He executively produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–16).
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Duchovny received an A.B. in English literature from Princeton University, and an M.A. in English literature from Yale University, and has since published two books, Holy Cow: A Modern-Day Dairy Tale in 2015 and Bucky F*cking Dent in 2016.
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| David Duchovny as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder |
Duchovny was born in New York, New York, in 1960. He is the son of a school administrator and teacher, and a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. Duchovny's mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father was Jewish; Duchovny's paternal grandfather was a Jewish emigrant from Berdychiv, Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, and Duchovny's paternal grandmother was a Jewish emigrant from Russian Poland, now in Poland. His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.
Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1982 with an A.B. in English literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets.
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The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton. He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.
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| David Duchovny as DEA Agent Denise Bryson |
Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. The next year he appeared in two scenes in Working Girl (1988).
He had a recurring role as a transgender DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator and host in the long-running Showtime erotica/soft-core TV series Red Shoe Diaries.
In 1992, he played the role of Rollie Totheroh, in the biographic film Chaplin, directed by Richard Attenborough and based on the life of Charlie Chaplin.
In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the science fiction series The X-Files, as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, a conspiracy theorist who believed his sister had been abducted by aliens. The show evolved into a cult hit and quickly became one of The Fox Network's first major television hits. According to X-Files creator Chris Carter, Duchovny turned out to be one of the best-read people he knew.
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After getting the role, Duchovny thought the show would not last for long or that it would not make as much impact as it did. Executive producer Frank Spotnitz called Duchovny amazingly smart. Spotnitz further stated that Duchovny was behind some of the main characteristic ideas behind Mulder.
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| Fox Mulder and The Grandma |
During The X-Files run, in between the fifth and sixth seasons, Duchovny co-starred alongside Gillian Anderson in The X-Files: Fight the Future, a 1998 motion picture that continued the X-Files storyline. He remained with the series until quitting in 2001, partly because of a contract dispute that occurred after season seven finished filming. Duchovny appeared in half of the season eight episodes, but did not appear in season nine until the series finale in 2002.
He also provided the voice for a parody of his Mulder character in, the episode The Springfield Files of the animated comedy series The Simpsons. Duchovny has been nominated for four Emmy Awards.
In March 2014, NBC announced that a new TV series, entitled Aquarius, would be produced starring Duchovny. Duchovny portrayed a 1960s police sergeant investigating small-time criminal and budding cult leader Charles Manson.
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In March 2015, Duchovny was announced as returning in a six-episode continuation of The X-Files.
If you're smart, you'll always be humble.
You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody
who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
David Duchovny
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