1966-11-02 ( 58 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
A Sprinkle Of History
2025-12-25
Little Death
2024-01-19
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022-11-21
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022-08-08
Friends: The Reunion
2021-05-27
The Laundromat
2019-09-27
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
2019-09-23
That's Harassment
2018-01-26
Madly Madagascar
2013-01-29
The Iceman
2012-09-01
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012-06-06
Another Dirty Movie
2012-04-25
John Carter
2012-03-07
Merry Madagascar
2009-11-16
Nothing But the Truth
2008-12-19
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008-10-30
Big Nothing
2006-12-01
Duane Hopwood
2005-11-11
Madagascar
2005-05-25
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002-05-05
Uprising
2001-11-04
Hotel
2001-09-12
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001-09-09
Picking Up the Pieces
2000-05-26
Love & Sex
2000-02-23
It's the Rage
1999-09-11
Apt Pupil
1998-10-23
The Thin Pink Line
1998-10-07
Six Days Seven Nights
1998-06-12
Since You've Been Gone
1998-06-06
Kissing a Fool
1998-02-27
Breast Men
1997-12-13
The Pallbearer
1996-05-03
Wolf
1994-06-17
Twenty Bucks
1993-10-21
The Waiter
1993-06-01
Crossing the Bridge
1992-09-11
Flight of the Intruder
1991-01-18
A Deadly Silence
1989-04-16
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