David Schwimmer
Acting
Born 1966-11-02
New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Friends
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
The View
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
30 Rock
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Band of Brothers
L.A. Law
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Wonder Years
American Crime Story
Madagascar
The Reichen Show
Joey
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
John Carter
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Extrapolations
Will & Grace
The Single Guy
Episodes
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
Entertainment Tonight
Six Days Seven Nights
Web Therapy
Captain Fall
Friends: The Reunion
The Laundromat
The Iceman
Apt Pupil
Madly Madagascar
Trust
The Big Narstie Show
Love & Sex
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Wolf
Growing Up Fisher
Merry Madagascar
Monty
Intelligence
Run Fatboy Run
Flight of the Intruder
Uprising
Twenty Bucks
Big Nothing
Come Fly with Me
Feed the Beast
All the Rage
Nothing but the Truth
E! True Hollywood Story
Little Britain USA
National Theatre Live: LOVE
Uprising
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
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