Actor David Schwimmer

David Schwimmer
Photo of actor David Schwimmer
David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and director of television and film. He was born in New York, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was two. He began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. For much of the late-1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor. He appeared in the television movie A Deadly Silence in 1989. He then appeared in a number of television roles, including L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty in the early 1990s. Schwimmer later gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the situation comedy Friends. Aside from appearing in television, he starred in his first leading role in The Pallbearer (1996), which was followed by roles in Kissing a Fool (1998), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Apt Pupil, and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel. Following the series finale of Friends in 2004, Schwimmer was cast as the titular character in the 2005 drama Duane Hopwood. Other film roles include the computer animated film Madagascar (2005), the dark comedy Big Nothing (2006), the thriller Nothing But the Truth (2008), and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). Schwimmer made his London stage debut in the leading role in Some Girl(s) in 2005. In 2006, he made his Broadway debut in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Schwimmer made his feature film directorial debut with the 2007 comedy Run Fatboy Run. The following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in the 2008 production Fault Lines. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Schwimmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of birth
Astoria, New York, USA Astoria, New York, USA
Date of birth
2nd November 1966
Movies that starred David Schwimmer (9 in total)
Little Death poster

Little Death [2024]

Martin Solomon
Friends: The Reunion poster

Friends: The Reunion [2021]

Self
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted poster

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted [2012]

Melman (voice)
The Iceman poster

The Iceman [2012]

Josh Rosenthal
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa poster

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [2008]

Melman (voice)
Nothing But the Truth poster

Nothing But the Truth [2008]

Ray Armstrong
Big Nothing poster

Big Nothing [2006]

Charlie
Madagascar poster

Madagascar [2005]

Melman (voice)
Six Days Seven Nights poster

Six Days Seven Nights [1998]

Frank Martin
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