David Duchovny is an actor who has had a long career in movies and television, with his best known role playing Fox Mulder on the hit show The X-Files. He started his career off in small roles before taking on parts in popular films such as Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead and Beethoven. In 1993, he got the role of Fox Mulder, which helped to propel him into super-stardom.

In addition to acting on the show, Duchovny also directed some episodes and he appeared in two feature films that were made after the series ended in 2002. Duchovny married actress Tea Leoni in 1997 and they have two children together. It was just recently announced that Duchovny and Leoni divorced in a surprise announcement.

With the news of Duchovny’s divorce, we are looking back at some of the top ten roles Duchovny has brought to the screen. Whether playing a small part in a role about a St. Bernard to starring in a television show about a sex addict, Duchovny has had a versatile acting career. Here are some of the top ten roles Duchovny has had in television and film.

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10. Baby Snatcher

In this 1992 made for television film, actress Nancy McKeon plays a mother who has given birth to her third child, a baby girl. Unfortunately, a woman who is close to divorce devises a plan to kidnap a baby after faking a pregnancy and she kidnaps the infant girl that was born. David Duchovny plays the baby’s father.

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9. Beethoven

In this loveable family movie about a St. Bernard named Beethoven, David Duchovney plays a man named Brad, who is secretly out to swindle Beethoven’s owner’s air freshener firm.

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8. Playing God

Duchovny plays Dr. Eugene Sands, a surgeon from Los Angeles who loses his license after performing a surgery while high. One night at a bar, he saves a man life and catches the attention of a criminal, who decides to use his skills as a doctor for other criminals who get injured and will not go to the hospital for help.

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7. Zoolander

Duchovny plays JP Prewitt, who used to be a hand model and tells Zoolander about models who have been behind assassinations in past history.

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6. The Joneses

Alongside Demi Moore, David Duchovny plays Steve Jones, both of whom are marketers who make it their jobs to use product placement in order to generate sales.

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5. House of D

Duchovny plays an artist named Tom Warshaw, who lives in Paris after having left Greenwich Village in New York. He tells his wife about a friendship he had with a mentally challenged man named Pappass, played by Robin Williams, and he eventually returns home to face his past.

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4. Californication

For seven years, Davis Duchovny played Hank Moody, a writer who battles sex addiction and drug issues as he works through relationships with his daughter and her mother.

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3. Things We Lost In The Fire

In this heartwrenching film, David Duchovny plays Brian Burke, who is married to Audrey, played by Halle Berry. The couple has a happy life together with their two children, until Brian is gunned down after trying to save a woman who was being beaten by her husband.

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2. Return To Me

In this heartwarming romantic movie, Minnie Driver is a woman who had a heart transplant and meets the man of her dreams, Bob Rueland, played by David Duchovny. What they don’t realize is the heart Driver received was from Duchovny’s character’s deceased wife.

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1. X-Files

In his most famous role, Duchovny played Fox Mulder, an FBI agent who was obsessed with finding out the truth about possible alien activity after his sister was abducted while they were kids. The clip below is a trailer for the 1998 X-Files film