David Schwimmer

Known for ActingBorn 1966-11-02 (age 59)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Little Death

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

That's Harassment

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

Band of Brothers

Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary

Friends

The Wonder Years

E! True Hollywood Story

Friends: The Reunion

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Dreamworks: Holiday Classics

American Crime Story

Will & Grace

30 Rock

Entourage

Episodes

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

The Graham Norton Show

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Mysterious Planet

Goosebumps: The Vanishing

Come Fly with Me

Nothing But the Truth

Celebrity Poker Showdown

The Making of 'Band of Brothers'

Madagascar

L.A. Law

Monty

The Waiter

Little Britain USA

Captain Fall

Web Therapy

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

The Iceman

Saturday Night Live

Trust

Madly Madagascar

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Merry Madagascar

Apt Pupil

Big Nothing

Uprising

John Carter

Growing Up Fisher

The Daily Show