Red Shoe Diaries is a 1992 romantic drama television film directed by Zalman King and starring David Duchovny, Brigitte Bako, and Billy Wirth. The story follows a man who grieves the loss of his fiancée and discovers a diary she kept that details a side of her he never knew. The film is intended as a pilot to the Showtime anthology series Red Shoe Diaries and premiered on the network on May 16, 1992.

David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer and musician. He portrayed FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and played the writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014), both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny appeared in both X-Files films—the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). He executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–2016).