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school. When his parents divorced, David was raised by his mother, along
with his sister Laurie and his brother Daniel.
"My father took the 'h' out of our last name because he was tired of
having it mispronounced," says David. "But when my parents divorced,
my mother put the 'h' back in, as a show of solidarity with how a family
member spelled the name. I think it's a beautiful name that I'm told means
'spiritual' in Russian. I don't care how people spell the name as long as
they get the meaning."
When David was a boy he went to a prestigious private school in
Manhattan. "He was a very bright kid with a brilliant sense of humour,"
his father remembers. "At school he was always top of the class."
After school he entered Princeton University. Then he studied
English Literature at Yale University and worked as a teaching assistant.
David was working at his PhD thesis at Yale when one of his
friends suggested that he should try acting classes.
"It made sense," says David, "because I was 26 years old and didn't
feel like spending the rest of my life teaching. I liked teaching, but it
seemed like living in an unreal world."
Soon he made $9,000 for appearing in a TV commercial for
Lowenbrau beer. It was twice as much money as he made as a teaching
assistant.
Duchovny's PhD thesis, “Magic and Technology in Contemporary
Fiction and Poetry” was never finished. He moved to Hollywood.
David's first year in Hollywood was very hard. He was unemployed
and could hardly make both ends meet. Luckily, he was invited to play in
a commercial and later in a feature film.
Very soon Duchovny appeared in such feature films as Chaplin,
Beethoven, Julia Has Two Lovers, Red Shoe Diaries, and California. His
work in the movies attracted the attention of Chris Carter, the famous
creator of The X-Files. So he became agent Fox Mulder.
David Duchovny admits that he has some things in common with
Fox Mulder. "We look alike. We're not completely different. Nothing
shocks either of us... And I think it would be impossible to act all the time
10 months of the year. It would kill you."
David is often asked if he believes in UFOs. "I don't know if we've
been contacted or the aliens have landed," he says, "but it would seem
rather odd to me if this planet is the only one in the universe with life on
it."
David is very surprised not only by the success of The X-Files but by
his own personal popularity. Chris Carter has called him 'frighteningly
smart'. Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) has described him as 'hysterically

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