David Duchovny was a dissertation away from a Ph.D. in English Literature at Yale University when he left academia to shill beer for Lowenbrau and star in low-budget films. He has appeared in films like Working Girl, New Year's Day and The Rapture. But, it wasn't until his leading role on The X-Files that he became a household name. With the television series and most recently The X-Files: Fight the Future and Return to Me, David is gaining notoriety as a talented and versatile actor. In 1997 Duchovny married Tea Leoni and two years later they celebrated the birth of their first child, Madelaine West.