David Duchovny

David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the science fiction horror drama series The X-Files and the alcoholic, drug-abusing, womanizing novelist Hank Moody on the comedy-drama television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.[1] He has appeared in the two X-Files films, the science fiction-thriller The X-Files (1998) and the supernatural fiction-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). He has a B.A. in English Literature from Princeton University and an M.A. in English Literature from Yale University.