David Duchovny, 48, gained his fame through the “The X-Files Series,” in 1993. But he first appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987. After that, he had a role in the “Twin Peaks” series, as a transvestite DEA agent. He also played in the Showtime “Red Shoe Diaries,” the long-running softcore series.

Still, in 1993 he played the role of his life, interpreting Special Agent Fox Mulder in “The X-Files,” a conspiracy theorist who believes his sister was abducted by aliens. The series quickly became a cult and one of FOX Network’s major smash hits.

David Duchovny is an Emmy-nominated for “The X-Files” and won the Golden Globe in 2007 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, for the role in “Californication,” where he plays a character obsessed with sex. No wonder he has just entered rehab for his sex addiction…it seems he took his role pretty serious.

In a statement released by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, on Thursday, the 48-year-old actor said that he entered rehab voluntarily and that he only asks for respect and privacy for his wife and children as “we deal with this situation as a family.”

David Duchovny married Tea Leoni on May 6, 1997 and in 1999 she gave birth to daughter Madelaine West Duchovny. They also have a son, born in 2005, Kyd Miller Duchovny and they all live in Malibu, California.