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David Schwimmer

David Schwimmer

Birthday: 1966-11-02 | Place of Birth: Astoria, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Schwimmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Friends: The Reunion

as    Self

2020
Intelligence

as    Jerry

2019
The Laundromat

as    Matthew Quirk

2016
Feed the Beast

as    Tommy Moran

2013
The Iceman

as    Josh Rosenthal

2013
Madly Madagascar

as    Melman (voice)

2012
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

as    Melman (voice)

2009
Merry Madagascar

as    Melman (voice)

2009
Merry Madagascar

as    Melman (voice)

2008
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

as    Melman (voice)

2008
Nothing But the Truth

as    Ray Armstrong

2006
Big Nothing

as    Charlie

2005
Duane Hopwood

as    Duane Hopwood

2005
Madagascar

as    Melman (voice)

2001
Uprising

as    Icchak 'Antek' Cukierman

2000
Picking Up the Pieces

as    Father Leo Jerome

1998
Six Days Seven Nights

as    Frank Martin

1998
The Thin Pink Line

as    Kelly Goodich / J.T.

1998
Kissing a Fool

as    Max Abbitt

1998
Since You've Been Gone

as    Robert S. Levitt

1997
Breast Men

as    Dr. Kevin Saunders

1996
The Pallbearer

as    Tom Thompson

1994
Friends

as    Ross Geller