Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 02, 1966
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
86 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
Self (archive footage)
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
Anthony Brewer
Little Death
Martin Solomon
Captain Fall
Extrapolations
Harris Goldblatt
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
Friends: The Reunion
Self
Intelligence
Jerry
Mysterious Planet
Narrator
The Laundromat
Matthew Quirk
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
Ross Geller
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
Self
National Theatre Live: LOVE
Executive Producer
The Big Narstie Show
Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
That's Harassment
Boss
Will & Grace
Noah
Feed the Beast
Tommy Moran
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Self
American Crime Story
Robert Kardashian
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
Growing Up Fisher
Director
Madly Madagascar
Melman (voice)
Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
Melman (voice)
The Iceman
Josh Rosenthal
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Melman (voice)
National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie
Self (uncredited)
John Carter
Young Thark Warrior
Web Therapy
Newell L. Miller
Episodes
David Schwimmer
Come Fly with Me
Himself
Trust
Director
Merry Madagascar
Melman (voice)
Nothing but the Truth
Ray Armstrong
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Melman (voice)
Little Britain USA
Director
Run Fatboy Run
Director
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Big Nothing
Charlie
30 Rock
Greenzo / Jared
The Reichen Show
Self
Duane Hopwood
Duane Hopwood
Madagascar
Melman (voice)
New Car Smell
Director
Joey
Director
Entourage
David Schwimmer
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self