Acting
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.
Friends
1994 · TV
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV
The Daily Show
1996 · TV
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · TV
30 Rock
2006 · TV
The View
1997 · TV
Entourage
2004 · TV
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · TV
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · TV
L.A. Law
1986 · TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV
The Wonder Years
1988 · TV
Band of Brothers
2001 · TV
American Crime Story
2016 · TV
Madagascar
2005 · Movie
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008 · Movie
The Reichen Show
2005 · TV
Will & Grace
2017 · TV
Episodes
2011 · TV
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 · Movie
John Carter
2012 · Movie
Extrapolations
2023 · TV
The Single Guy
1995 · TV
Web Therapy
2011 · TV
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · TV
Six Days Seven Nights
1998 · Movie
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · TV
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
2025 · TV
Captain Fall
2023 · TV
Intelligence
2020 · TV
The Big Narstie Show
2018 · TV
The Iceman
2012 · Movie
Come Fly with Me
2010 · TV
Love & Sex
2000 · Movie
Friends: The Reunion
2021 · Movie
The Laundromat
2019 · Movie
Uprising
2001 · Movie
Wolf
1994 · Movie
Monty
1994 · TV
Merry Madagascar
2009 · Movie
Madly Madagascar
2013 · Movie
Feed the Beast
2016 · TV
Apt Pupil
1998 · Movie
Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003 · TV
Nothing But the Truth
2008 · Movie
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
2019 · TV
Big Nothing
2006 · Movie
The Pallbearer
1996 · Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · TV
Twenty Bucks
1993 · Movie
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016 · Movie
Flight of the Intruder
1991 · Movie
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
2025 · Movie
The Thin Pink Line
1998 · Movie
Uprising
2001 · TV
National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie
2012 · Movie
Hotel
2001 · Movie
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002 · Movie
Duane Hopwood
2005 · Movie
Little Death
2024 · Movie
Breast Men
1997 · Movie
Picking Up the Pieces
2000 · Movie
Crossing the Bridge
1992 · Movie
All the Rage
1999 · Movie
Since You've Been Gone
1998 · Movie
Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
2012 · Movie
Kissing a Fool
1998 · Movie
The Making of 'Band of Brothers'
2001 · Movie
That's Harassment
2018 · Movie
A Deadly Silence
1989 · Movie
Mysterious Planet
2020 · TV
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
2019 · Movie
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022 · Movie
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022 · Movie
