Biography
David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards Duchovny was born in New York City, New York in 1960. He is the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. His father was Jewish, from ...
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Complete Filmography

FEEL
2025
as Sitter 7
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never ex...

Strokes
2025
as Footage as Fox Mulder
A Brakhage-ish wannabe study mixing a shot similar to the ones in La mirada de Goya with some other shots from an X-Files episode the director watched...

Reverse the Curse
2024
as Marty Fullilove
Follows Ted, an aimless thirtysomething who moves in with his father Marty when he develops a fatal illness. Marty’s health suffers every time the Bos...

Reverse the Curse
2024
Writer, Director, Producer
Follows Ted, an aimless thirtysomething who moves in with his father Marty when he develops a fatal illness. Marty’s health suffers every time the Bos...

Adam the First
2024
as James
Adam, a 14-year-old boy travels across the country to meet a series of men who could be his father after finding a letter with a list of names and add...

Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
2024
as Narrator (voice)
New York City's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka is best known for its borscht and varenyky, but it has become a beacon of hope for Ukraine. As th...

What Happens Later
2023
as Bill
Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themse...

What Happens Later
2023
Executive Producer
Two ex-lovers get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themse...

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023
as Bill Baterman
In 1969, young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a d...

You People
2023
as Arnold
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.

The Estate
2022
as Richard
Down-on-her-luck divorcee Macey and her fickle sister Savanna attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt Hilda in hopes of bec...

The Bubble
2022
as Dustin Mulray
Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hot...

The Craft: Legacy
2020
as Adam
An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

Louder Than Words
2013
as John Fareri
After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the heali...

Phantom
2013
as Bruni
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a co...

Goats
2012
as Goat Man
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: ...

FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
as Self
A special celebrating FOX's 25 years on the air. Highlights from iconic series and tributes to memorable moments, as well as celebrities honoring the ...

The Joneses
2010
as Steve Jones
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come ...

The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
as Fox Mulder
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
as Self
The Who were honored at the 2008 ceremony from the Pauley Pavilion at UCLA instead of the usual Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center. The concert cons...

Quantum Hoops
2007
as Narrator
While most sports films celebrate the quest for a championship, "Quantum Hoops" follows a team that is searching for a single win. The documentary chr...

The Secret
2007
as Dr. Benjamin Marris
Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horr...

Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
as Steven Burke
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the f...

The TV Set
2007
as Mike Klein
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network e...

Queer Duck: The Movie
2006
as Tiny Jesus (voice)
Queer Duck and his partner of 18 months (a lifetime in gay years), Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator, hit a relationship crisis when the fey fowl is wooed b...

Trust the Man
2005
as Tom
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem t...

House of D
2004
as Tom Warshaw
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappa...

House of D
2004
Director, Writer
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappa...

Connie and Carla
2004
as Jeff
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers wor...
Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone
2002
Three erotic tales make up this collection from the popular Zalman King series. In “The Art of Loneliness,” a beautiful blind radio show personality e...

Full Frontal
2002
as Gus
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

Zoolander
2001
as J.P. Prewitt
Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's...

Evolution
2001
as Dr. Ira Kane
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the ...

Return to Me
2000
as Bob Rueland
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten i...

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
1999
as Pauline (archive footage) (uncredited)
Before he was Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, The Waterboy, or Billy Madison, Adam Sandler was doing Saturday Night Live playing hilarious characters and...

Red Shoe Diaries 8: Night of Abandon
1998
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Night of Abandon: A wild blissful night in Brazil during Carnival. Liar's Tale: A burned out photojournalist's obsession with a high-class call girl ...

The X-Files
1998
as Agent Fox Mulder
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about ...

Akte X Intern - Was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
1998
as Fox Mulder / Self

Inside The X-Files
1998
as Self
Inside the X-Files for a behind-the-scenes look at the show. Also included are interviews with the cast and creator Chris Carter, never before seen se...

Skip Chasers
1998
An unsold CBS pilot about a mailman named Deacon, who gets entangled in a mess involving a team of Bail Enforcement Agents (bounty hunters who chase ...

Playing God
1997
as Dr. Eugene Sands
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life on...
Red Shoe Diaries Movie 10: Some Things Never Change
1996
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
A beautiful cowgirl (Sammi Davis) fights off the advances of a handsome stranger (Maximo Morrone), until she realizes he's not trying to tame her. He ...

Red Shoe Diaries 6: How I Met My Husband
1996
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Three separate episodes of the Red Shoe Diaries (1992) tv series - "How I Met My Husband", "Naked in the Moonlight" and "Midnight Bells" - edited toge...

Red Shoe Diaries 5: Weekend Pass
1995
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Evan, a beautiful bounty hunter after a seductively handsome and charming con man who makes his living using his looks and wit to defraud women of the...

Red Shoe Diaries 4: Auto Erotica
1994
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
A sultry Italian maid unlocks a couple's secret chamber and unleashes a private fantasy. An architect is lured by a mysterious beauty into a torrid ga...

Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
Just Like That: A receptionist in a large firm cheats on her voyeuristic lover with a delivery boy who has a crush on her. Another Woman's Lipstick: A...

Kalifornia
1993
as Brian Kessler
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare
1993
as Jake Winters (archive footage)
A cab ride with a dangerously seductive stranger ignites a steamy, purely sexual affair for a woman torn between her hunger for lust and her passion f...

Chaplin
1992
as Rollie Totheroh
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent per...

Red Shoe Diaries
1992
as Jake Winters
A man grieving the loss of his fiancée discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. In an effort to understand, he reaches out...

Baby Snatcher
1992
as David Anderson
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic sear...

Venice/Venice
1992
as Dylan
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. ...

Beethoven
1992
as Brad
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their h...

Ruby
1992
as Officer Tippit
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.

The Rapture
1991
as Randy
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have ima...

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
as Bruce
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings...

Julia Has Two Lovers
1990
as Daniel
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day.

Bad Influence
1990
as Clue Goer with Glasses
Wimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disapp...

New Year's Day
1990
as Billy
A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they...

Denial
1990
as John
A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationshi...

Working Girl
1988
as Tess's Birthday Party Friend
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...
See You When I See You
N/A
Navigating mental health struggles and grief, a family finds humor and healing through the lens of a comedic yet poignant story inspired by a memoir.