Subsequently, David Duchovny emerged to become one of the most highly acclaimed actors in Hollywood. The star of Fox Television's monster hit The X-Files, David was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, and he was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his highly acclaimed and some say risqué appearances on The Larry Sanders Show and for Sex And The City. In January 1997, David won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. He has been nominated for a total of three Golden Globes, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a TV Critic's Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
The press and the public both agree that Duchovny brings a fierce intellect, a quiet intensity and an acerbic wit to his roles on both the small screen and the silver screen. The X-Files debuted nine seasons ago, millions and millions of self-proclaimed X-Files spent their Sunday nights wide-eyed in anticipation as their hero, the brilliant and sullen FBI agent Fox Mulder (Duchovny), explored cases deemed unbelievable or unsolvable by the Bureau. Duchovny's remarkable performance on The X-Files 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 York Times.
Duchovny added the role of director to his already extensive list of accomplishments when he wrote, directed and starred in two critically acclaimed episodes of The X-Files, titled The Unnatural, which starred Jessie Martin, and Hollywood A.D., starring Garry Shandling and actress Téa Leoni. His feature credits include the action-comedy Evolution opposite Julianne Moore, directed by Ivan Reitman of Ghostbuster fame, the romantic-comedy Return to Me, opposite Minnie Driver, directed by Bonnie Hunt. The X-Files movie, directed by Rob Bowman, and the Touchstone film, Playing God, with Timothy Hutton and Angelina Jolie, an action thriller, directed by Andy Wilson (winner of a Cable Ace Award for Cracker). Recently, Duchovny appeared in Ben Stiller's film Zoolander in a hilariously funny un-billed cameo performance.
Duchovny's passion for renegade films has brought him critical acclaim for his performances in the feature films Kalifornia, in which he co-starred with Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis; The Rapture, the controversial film directed by Michael Tolkin in which Duchovny starred opposite Mimi Rogers; and Julia Has Two Lovers, in which he turned in 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, which starred Robert Downey Jr. in the title role; and starred in the smash hit Beethoven, opposite Charles Grodin, as the evil yuppie determined to take over Charles Grodin's company.
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 The Red Shoe Diaries, which began as a feature length telefilm for Showtime. On stage, Duchovny has appeared in such plays as The Copulating Machine of Venice, California, and Green Cockatoo. In Full Frontal, he starred opposite Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood and David Hyde Pierce for director Steven Soderbergh. Duchovny made a brief return to television in good friend Bonnie Hunt's show, Life With Bonnie, in which he guest starred as over-the-top weatherman Johnny Volcano. Duchovny made two appearances in the 2002-2003 season and he has been nominated for an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Duchovny recently completed shooting the feature Connie & Carla Do L.A., directed by Michael Lembeck, starring opposite Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette. It is a hilarious story of two females who flee from the mafia after witnessing a murder. This leads them to Los Angeles where Connie (Nia) falls in love with Jeff (David) and start new careers as drag queen musicians.
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