David William Duchovny is an American actor, director, writer, producer and musician. He portrayed FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and played the writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny appeared in both X-Files films; the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe. He executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius.
His film work includes minor roles in the coming-of-age black comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, and the family comedy Beethoven. Also in 1992, he played Roland Totheroh in the biographical comedy-drama Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr. In the 2000's, he starred in Return to Me with Minnie Driver, Evolution with Orlando Jones, Connie and Carla with Nia Vardalos, House of D with Robin Williams, and The Joneses with Demi Moore.