David Duchovny is a famous actor, director, TV artist, writer, and musician who was born in New York on 7th August 1960. David’s mother was a teacher and his father was a writer and advertiser. By religion, his father was Jewish and his mother belonged to Scottish. He was rich therefore, we will discuss David Duchovny net worth, career, and other interesting aspects of life in this article.
David is famous for his characters in Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication and achieved an award. David Duchovny also performed prominent roles in almost 30 films. David got married to Tea Leoni on May 13, 1997, she was also an actress.
David William Duchovny studied at Yale University, but later on, David decided to leave his Ph.D. program and start his professional acting career. During the 1980s and 90s, he appeared in several movies and TV programs with smaller roles. Later on, he began writing and directing, and he directed the feature film “House of D” and excelled on the hit show “Californication” on air from 2007 to 2014.
David Duchovny spent his childhood with siblings Daniel and Laurie with his mother Margaret, who was a school administrator and his father Amram was a writer, publicist, and Jewish. David studied at Grace Church School where he joined a basketball team as a junior varsity player. Meanwhile, in 1982 he completed his graduation degree in English literature, and in the same year, he was nominated for the Academy of American Poets.
In 1987 during his Ph.D. he spent the summer taking classes in New York. He did his first role in Löwenbräu beer commercial. After that from 1990 to 91 David played transgender DEA agent Denise Bryson in three episodes of “Twin Peaks”. Although featured in “The X-Files,” David completed many films, such as “Playing God” {1997} and “Return to Me” {2000}, and David also compered “Saturday Night Live” in 1995 and 1998. In 2005, Duchovny appeared in “House of D,” which was written and directed by himself.
In 2011 David started playing guitar and after four years released his first music album “Hell or Highwater” and 2nd released “Every Third Thought” after three years of the first release of his first album of 2015. Furthermore, David also wrote all 24 songs that are on the music albums. He boarded a U.S. and European tour for each album.
Throughout David’s tenure on “Californication,” he received a salary of $225,000 for one episode. Earlier, for three seasons of “The X-Files,” he got $150,000 per episode. By the 4th season, David’s earnings were $240,000 per episode. Thus he earned $5.76 million for a 24-episodes.
David Duchovny Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth and Forbes David Duchovny net worth is almost $80 million. In 2012 he purchased a corner apartment with three bedrooms with an attached bath along with a private elevator for $6.25 million.
