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Opening Statement

Someone wrote the following sentence in the opening statement for this article: "He is one of the most gifted actors to ever grace film and television screens, carrying roles with such ease." Not that I necessarily disagree, but shouldn't this be changed to better reflect a netural point of view? ChrisMofNS (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interview with Duchovny...

There's a good interview with David Duchovny here that I thought would make a good inclusion to his page. Includes information about the actor, as well as his experience as a writer and director.

I read in the news that he's going to be in another X-Files Movie. Rumour, speculation...? -71.224.24.99 03:03, 25 November 2006 Media:ghgffhf

The picture sucks

Spelling and Pronunciation

The article says, "His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid...mispronunciations". But the article spells the father's name with the H. Did he change it back or is this a mistake? Venqax (talk) 14:21, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

He's a movie/tv star for goodness sake! Surely there are some pics someplace that don't look like something from the Smoking Gun —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.59.58.126 (talk) 04:05, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Joke or typo?

In "Career" it lists that he starred in an Episode of "Sex and the City" and was the "... high-school X-boyfriend who has commited..."

Should that be "ex-boyfriend"? I didn't want to just change it and have it be some sort of "Sex and the City" inside joke (referring to "The X-Files," obviously) or something... Grfnkmp 15:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Member of the SCA

Duchovny is not the person known as Earl Gregory Ahearn in the Society for Creative Anachronism. "The Quarter", cited as the source for naming Duchovny as a member, is a satirical publication, much as "The Onion" is. <span class=ser:67.80.211.158|67.80.211.158]] (talk • contribs)

You could be right. The Quarter is considered a parody newsletter, somewhat, but it also seems to have some legitimate role for the SCA. As for that particular article, it's hard to tell whether or not it's meant to be taken seriously. I'm not too familiar with the SCA myself so maybe someone else can shed some light on this.

Equazcion • argue/improves • 17:36, 10/1/2007

I have been a member of the SCA for 20+ years. If you look at the cited page of The Quarter, you will see that they also "reveal" other celebrity members of the SCA to be Bernie Kopell (The Love Boat), Brian O'Halloran (Clerks), and Kevin Smith (Silent Bob). It's just a joke -- note that at the top of the page, The Quarter bills itself as "Trimaris' Perfectly Period Parody Publication", and states that it's "not an official publication of Trimaris or the SCA." The only role it serves is to poke gentle fun at the members of the SCA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.211.158 (talk) 03:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I knew about the slogan and I looked at the cited page. I don't really see much evidence of it being a joke though. A lot of my feeling has to do with the fact that nothing on that page seems particularly funny, or even trying to be funny. You can remove the statement if you like; I don't feel strongly either way. I just hope others that know something about this will comment.

Equazcion • argue/improves • 04:06, 10/2/2007

It's a joke of the abbreviation. SCA is also Sexual Compulsives Anonymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.18.204 (talk) 00:58, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm deleting the last sentence of the article that states he jokingly admitted to having a sex addiction problem 10 years earlier. The link just goes to a news article about his current sex addiction problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.227.247.206 (talk) 03:22, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lutheran immigrant from Scotland

I do not know of ANY Lutheran churches in Scotland, membership here is miniscule. Presumably his Scottish ancestor changed to Lutheranism...--MacRusgail (talk) 20:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Siblings birth order

Article says "Duchovny's siblings are Daniel and Laurie Duchovny." but doesn't mention if David is the oldest, middle or baby. 71.191.40.106 (talk) 21:10, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An actor who plays a character with sex addiction is getting "in-patient" sex addiction rehab in real life ???

I don't know about the rest of you, but this sounds like some kind of stunt or put-on. If not, it's about the most ironic thing I've heard of all year. How will Duchovny possibly film a third season of Californication with therapists whispering in both ears? Is there anything out there aside from the MSNBC article? Inquiring minds want to know.

Also: what the hell is "in-patient" sex addiction therapy? I'm getting a sort of Clockwork Orange impression, maybe with Duchovny strapped to a chair, electrodes hanging from his man parts, while Behind The Green Door plays on an endless loop. 66.199.58.66 (talk) 21:21, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This may be the greatest thing I have read on Wikipedia since someone included "pedophile" to the list of things that Michael Jackson was on the Simple English Wiki. dethtoll (talk) 21:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It took me a while but I think I've come up with a way of mentioning in the article that, yes, Duchovny entered sex-addiction rehab while playing a sex addict, without violating WP:UNDUE or breaking the encyclopedic tone. It was surprisingly difficult to find a reputable source that calls Duchovny's character, Hank Moody, a sex addict; many call Moody "sex-crazed" or "oversexed" but not an addict, per se. YLee (talk) 00:46, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Religion?

Father was Jewish, mother is Lutheran. What religion was he raised as; what religion is he now? The categories on the article are contradictory, as he is in Russian-American Jews (which states he is Jewish), yet is also in Americans of Jewish descent (which states he has Jewish ancestry, yet is not Jewish). Nietzsche 2 (talk) 21:08, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i'll ask, but i think he's nothing or "N"Buddhist:(lol) Markthemac (talk) 01:19, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, some interviews suggest that he identifies with and/or strongly sympathizes with the plight of his Jewish forefathers and that some references to Judaism as well as anti-Semitism in the series were put there upon the actor's request. Also, this is just some personal OR, but a lot of episodes suggest that it's Mulder's greatest wish to be abducted by aliens some day, and I suppose it could be due to survivor's guilt as suffered by many Jewish holocaust survivors (even no matter whether they were in Europe at the time as long as they were Jewish): They took his sister Samantha but not him, and now he unconsciously wishes or fears they could be taking him instead or as well. --79.242.222.168 (talk) 15:44, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

former vegetarian

"Duchovny is a former vegetarian.[18]". He is also likely a former breast feeder. Does it seem necessary to include every comment a celebrity makes about himself, especially when the description no longer applies? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.138.53 (talk) 15:29, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in David Duchovny

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of David Duchovny's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Youtube":

From The X-Files: "Inside the actor's studio — David Duchovny (part 1)". Youtube. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
From The X-Files (season 1): "Inside the actor's studio - David Duchovny (part 1)". Youtube. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
From Carroll O'Connor: Carroll O'Connor interview with the Archive of American Television on YouTube

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 11:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Marital Status

Duchovny's divorced. You should change his status. http://www.famoushookups.com/site/celebrity_profile.php?name=David-Duchovny&celebid=521 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.110.133.155 (talk) 03:02, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That site is out of date. See this and this. They separated briefly in 2009 but got back together again. rpeh •T•C•E• 11:50, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean Zimbio, one of the latest pictures published there is almost a year old. They are divorced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Southerner2A (talk • contribs) 14:35, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The source provided first stated that they divorced in 2009, which is why I included sites with statements that they're still married that date from 2010. The original site is not reliable because it's user-written. Please provide an up to date source stating when they divorced. rpeh •T•C•E• 14:45, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry for bothering again, but what makes Kansascity more reliable?:) The first site is updated:) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Southerner2A (talk • contribs) 17:49, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not written by users who can add whatever they feel like. rpeh •T•C•E• 18:13, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in any case the truth will come out sooner or later:) What do you know? I was right after all. Check TMZ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Southerner2A (talk • contribs) 03:10, 29 June 2011 (UTC) One more thing that's informative: http://blindgossip.com/?p=17192#more-17192 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Southerner2A (talk • contribs) 12:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gossip. Nymf _hideliho! 22:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

David does have Ukrainian roots

David's paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine ([1]).--Dmytro Lomonosov (talk) 19:36, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is unreliable source. No author, no credits, no sources. And David many times said, that his father was a Russian Jew (1, 2, 3). --Movses (talk) 10:30, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In which case, I would suggest that it is David who confused. His father (who is, after all, the direct connection) seems to have thought differently regarding the matter. It seems a little strange that, of the two citations for his Polish and 'Russian' ancestry, Amram's biography definitively states, "Moshe Duchovny [Amrams' father], who came to American in 1918 from what is now Ukraine, wrote for the Morning Journal."

Naturally, I am not going to change the Russia as it is clear that David Duchovny considers and uses 'Russian' as a constituent part of his ethnicity. To change this would be original research and completely inappropriate for a BLP. What I would suggest is that Mr. Duchovny perceives his background in a manner similar to Dustin Hoffman (i.e., confusing the Russian Empire with the current nation-state of Russia). This also ties in with Mosche's having arrived in America in 1918 (Revolution), therefore I would propose that the link to Russia should be changed to the Russian Empire so that it reads as, "His father was Jewish, from a family that immigrated from Russia and ..." lest Wikipedia be perceived as being remiss regarding accuracy. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:41, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 06:04, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated, All Hallow's Wraith! I've never edited this article and prefer not to barge in without checking first. Even the most unlikely articles can be unexpectedly sensitive. Hopefully, no one else who watches this article has any objects. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 09:33, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was no Ukraine before 1918. And the Ukrainian nation appeared only in the 19th century. Catherine the Great was born in Prussia, which is currently the territory of Poland. But this does not mean at all that the German Catherine the Great turned into a Polish by nationality. 85.113.33.129 (talk) 13:02, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

David has himself just tweeted "I grew up thinking I was Russian only to find recently that I've been Ukrainian all along. Never too late to change."[2] Maybe time to change now? Närking (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, under these circumstances tweets from his personal account would be considered acceptable. See WP:TWITTER. It's not an exceptional claim; he is not commenting on a third party; it is only an incidental regarding his background and does not affect the bulk of the content of the article. If he's happy to jump on the "it's currently cool be be Ukrainian" bandwagon, it isn't up to us to deny him his change in self-perception. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:49, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

Can someone add the pronunciation of his last name? — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 10:03, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article also says his father dropped the H in his last name to avoid mispronunciations. But the article spells the father's name with the H. Is this a mistake or did he change it back? Venqax (talk) 14:26, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Age

Actor's age has not automatically switched to 55 in the box under his picture. 108.219.52.37 (talk) 22:34, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It has. Wikipedia is set to Coordinated Universal Time, meaning that it doesn't change over by whatever region of the world you live in, but by UTC standard time. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:59, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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it says Meg Duchovny was teacher and and administrator. So I took out that he attended Grace Church School, albeit true, Grace Church School acknowledgeable employs racists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.75.232.134 (talk) 21:55, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Original research removed

Just a heads-up that I removed unsourced claims in this article per WP:V and WP:OR. If anyone has questions, please let me know. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:06, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Military service

Between 1985 and 1991 was part of the goth militants in korobaliv 2A00:23C4:3E15:EB01:A5FB:4913:BBF0:9D34 (talk) 18:28, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

PBS, Feb 13, 2023: Bedouin police and "violently expelled"

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In the early 20th century, the Duchovnys made their way to Jaffa, where they opened an inn. Unfortunately, the Duchovnys, along with 6000 fellow Jews, were violently expelled from the state one night in December of 1914 by the local Ottoman government... The clip describes how one day, Bedouin police invaded the Jewish quarter of Jaffa, where the Duchovnys lived and worked, and forced them out of their homes with only bags and meager belongings. They were put aboard the Vincenzo Florio, a steamer headed to Port Said, Egpyt.
At night, the “relatively orderly” deportation turned violent. According to the clipping, men were thrown overboard, possessions were looted, jewelry was ripped off women and parents and children were separated, with the young ones “carried from […] the quayside.”
“There were desperate appeals on every side in the darkness, with heartrending screams. Everyone arrived in Alexandria resourceless,”...

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