David Schwimmer
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1966-11-02
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
Also Known For
Madagascar
May 25, 2005
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Oct 30, 2008
Wolf
Jun 17, 1994
Uprising
Nov 04, 2001
Six Days Seven Nights
Jun 12, 1998
The Pallbearer
May 03, 1996
It's the Rage
Sep 11, 1999
Merry Madagascar
Nov 16, 2009
Apt Pupil
Oct 23, 1998
Duane Hopwood
Nov 11, 2005
Big Nothing
Dec 01, 2006
Nothing But the Truth
Dec 19, 2008
Since You've Been Gone
Jun 06, 1998
Kissing a Fool
Feb 27, 1998
The Iceman
Sep 01, 2012
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Jun 06, 2012
Twenty Bucks
Oct 21, 1993
Breast Men
Dec 13, 1997
Madly Madagascar
Jan 29, 2013
Hotel
Sep 12, 2001
The Thin Pink Line
Oct 07, 1998
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
May 05, 2002
Picking Up the Pieces
May 26, 2000
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Aug 08, 2022
National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie
Apr 25, 2012
Little Death
Jan 19, 2024
The Waiter
Jun 01, 1993
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Nov 21, 2022
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Feb 21, 2016
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
Feb 24, 1997
A Deadly Silence
Apr 16, 1989
Crossing the Bridge
Sep 11, 1992
Flight of the Intruder
Jan 18, 1991
The Laundromat
Sep 27, 2019
Love & Sex
Feb 23, 2000
Friends: The Reunion
May 27, 2021
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
Sep 23, 2019
John Carter
Mar 07, 2012
That's Harassment
Jan 26, 2018
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
Sep 09, 2001
A Sprinkle of History
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
Feb 25, 2025
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
The Single Guy
Sep 21, 1995
Friends
Sep 22, 1994
E! True Hollywood Story
Aug 21, 1996
The Wonder Years
Jan 31, 1988
30 Rock
Oct 11, 2006
Band of Brothers
Sep 09, 2001
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Monty
Jan 11, 1994
Extrapolations
Mar 16, 2023
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Mar 06, 2018
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
American Crime Story
Feb 02, 2016
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Oct 15, 2000
Feed the Beast
Jun 05, 2016
Captain Fall
Jul 28, 2023
Come Fly with Me
Dec 25, 2010
Episodes
Jan 09, 2011
Mysterious Planet
Feb 20, 2020
The Reichen Show
Nov 11, 2005
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Dec 02, 2003
Web Therapy
Jul 19, 2011
Will & Grace
Sep 28, 2017
Intelligence
Feb 21, 2020
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
L.A. Law
Sep 15, 1986
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
The Big Narstie Show
Jun 29, 2018
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
Jul 19, 2019
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
Jan 10, 2025
Entourage
Jul 18, 2004
Band of Brothers
Sep 09, 2001
Uprising
Nov 04, 2001
