David Duchovny stars as Special Agent Fox Mulder, the brilliant and focused FBI agent who, armed with only an undying faith in the existence of the unexplainable, explores with his more skeptical partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), cases deemed unbelievable or unsolvable by the Bureau. UFO sightings, alien abductions, voodoo possession, witchcraft -- for Duchovny's Mulder, there is no line between what is possible, and what is impossible. Duchovny's performance on THE X-FILES has earned him the title of "Zeitgeist Icon" by Laura Jacobs in The New Republic and "the first Internet sex symbol with hair" by Maureen Dowd in The New Your Times.

Rapidly emerging as one of the most highly-acclaimed young actors in Hollywood, Duchovny brings a fierce intellect, a quiet intensity and an acerbic wit to his roles on both the small screen and the silver screen.

A passion for renegade films has brought Duchovny critical acclaim for his performances in the features "Kalifornia," in which he costarred with Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis; "The Rapture," the controversial film directed by Michael Tolkin in which he starred opposite Mimi Rogers; and "Julia Has Two Lovers," in which he gave a much heralded performance as a telephone hustler. Duchovny played Roland "Rollie" Totheroh, Charlie Chaplin's longtime confidante and cameraman in the Sir Richard Attenborough directed "Chaplin," starring Robert Downey, Jr.; and had a co-starring role in the smash hit "Beethoven," opposite Charles Grodin, as the evil yuppie determined to take over Grodin's company. He has also starred in the movie-of-the-week, "Baby Snatchers," with Michael Madsen.

Still recognized for his role as Dennis/Denise Bryson, the transvestite detective in David Lynch's breakthrough television series "Twin Peaks," Duchovny has also spent four seasons as the impassioned narrator of Zalman King's erotic anthology series "Red Shoe Diaries," which began as a feature length telefilm for Showtime. This past May, Duchovny guest-hosted the season finale of "Saturday Night Live," on which he offered-up a dead-on impression of Richard Gere and, proving he still has the legs for it, a woman in drag. Duchovny also recently guest starred on an episode of HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" entitled "The Bump," which featured Duchovny nearly losing his guest spot due to an overlong eulogy delivered by Jeffrey Tambor's character Hank Kingley.

On stage, Duchovny has appeared in such plays as "The Copulating Machine of Venice, California" and "Green Cockatoo."

Born and raised in New York City, Duchovny attended Princeton University (where he played one season as shooting guard on the school's basketball team), and was on the road to earning his Ph.D. in English Literature at Yale University when he began to commute twice a week to New York to study acting. He was soon appearing in Off-Broadway plays and, in 1987, in the midst of his doctoral studies, left Yale to pursue acting full-time in New York and, later, Los Angeles.

Duchovny is single and, when not in Vancouver working on THE X-FILES, spends his free time playing basketball, practicing yoga, and reading poetry in local clubs.

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