
David Schwimmer
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.
79 acting credits · 8 directing credits
Acting · 79

The Daily Show
1996

Friends
1994

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Saturday Night Live
1975

Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000

30 Rock
2006

The View
1997

Entourage
2004

The Wonder Years
1988

Band of Brothers
2001

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

L.A. Law
1986

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014

American Crime Story
2016

Madagascar
2005

The Reichen Show
2005

Will & Grace
2017

The Single Guy
1995

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012

Episodes
2011

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008

Extrapolations
2023

John Carter
2012

Web Therapy
2011

Entertainment Tonight
1981

Goosebumps: The Vanishing
2025

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018

Captain Fall
2023

Monty
1994

Friends: The Reunion
2021

The Big Narstie Show
2018

The Iceman
2012

Intelligence
2020

The Laundromat
2019

Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003

Six Days Seven Nights
1998

Wolf
1994

Madly Madagascar
2013

Feed the Beast
2016

Love & Sex
2000

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Apt Pupil
1998

Merry Madagascar
2009

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016

Flight of the Intruder
1991

The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
2019
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997

Big Nothing
2006

Uprising
2001

Come Fly with Me
2010

Nothing But the Truth
2008

NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002

Uprising
2001

Hotel
2001

Crossing the Bridge
1992

Little Death
2024

Breast Men
1997

Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
2019

The Thin Pink Line
1998

The Pallbearer
1996

Since You've Been Gone
1998

The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001

Picking Up the Pieces
2000

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
2025

All the Rage
1999

Kissing a Fool
1998

National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie
2012

A Deadly Silence
1989

Twenty Bucks
1993
A Sprinkle of History
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Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
2012

That's Harassment
2018

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022

Duane Hopwood
2005

The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022

Mysterious Planet
2020
The Waiter
1993




