David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the science fiction horror drama series The X-Files and the alcoholic, drug-abusing, womanizing novelist Hank Moody on the comedy-drama television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. He has appeared in the two X-Files films, the science fiction-thriller The X-Files (1998) and the supernatural fiction-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).