ACTOR

David Duchovny

1960 - Today

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David William Duchovny ( duu-KOV-nee; born (1960-08-07)August 7, 1960) is an American actor, director, writer, producer and musician. He portrayed FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files (1993–2002, 2016–2018) and played the writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014), 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 (2008). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Duchovny has received more than 14,687,619 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia. David Duchovny is the 767th most popular actor (up from 772nd in 2019), the 1,388th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,426th in 2019) and the 369th most popular American Actor.

David Duchovny is most famous for his role as Fox Mulder on the sci-fi series "The X-Files."

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  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, David Duchovny ranks 767 out of 13,578Before him are Max Wright, Horst Tappert, Sofía Vergara, Scott Wilson, Lila Kedrova, and Annette Bening. After him are Charles Chaplin Jr., Dwight Schultz, Ida Rubinstein, Dirk Benedict, Fernanda Montenegro, and Francisco Rabal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, David Duchovny ranks 41Before him are Hugo Weaving, Pierre Littbarski, James Spader, John F. Kennedy Jr., Khaled, and Anne Parillaud. After him are Gary Lineker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mohamed Bazoum, Jorge Sampaoli, Nena, and Hiroyuki Sanada.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Duchovny ranks 1,388 out of 20,380Before him are Jim Lovell (1928), George Strait (1952), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), John Zorn (1953), Annette Bening (1958), and Henry Gantt (1861). After him are Sacagawea (1780), Nelson Goodman (1906), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), John Brown (1800), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, David Duchovny ranks 369Before him are Tyler Perry (1969), Martin Balsam (1919), Kelly Lynch (1959), Max Wright (1943), Scott Wilson (1942), and Annette Bening (1958). After him are Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), Dirk Benedict (1945), Peter Weller (1947), Adrien Brody (1973), and David Schwimmer (1966).