David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Bill Rosenberg
as Martin Solomon
as Anthony Brewer
as Harris Goldblatt
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Jerry
as Narrator
as Matthew Quirk
as Ross Geller
as Boss
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Noah
as Tommy Moran
as Robert Kardashian
as Melman (voice)
as Josh Rosenthal
as Melman (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Young Thark Warrior
as Newell L. Miller
as David Schwimmer
as Himself
as Melman (voice)
as Ray Armstrong
as Melman (voice)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Charlie
as Greenzo / Jared
as Duane Hopwood
as Melman (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Icchak 'Antek' Cukierman
as Jonathan Danderfine
as Self
as Herbert M. Sobel
as Herbert Sobel
as Father Leo Jerome
as Jehovah's Witness
as David Schwimmer
as Chris
as Edward French
as Kelly Goodich / J.T.
as Frank Martin
as Robert S. Levitt
as Max Abbitt
as Dr. Kevin Saunders
as Self
as Tom Thompson
as Self
as Ross Geller
as Cop
as Ross Geller
as Greg Richardson
as Neil Campbell
as Evil Waiter
as John Anderson
as Duty Officer
as Rob Cuccio
as Michael
as City Attorney Dana Romney
as Patient
as Self
as Self - Host
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer