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David Schwimmer
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…
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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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2027
A Sprinkle of History
Movie Bill Rosenberg
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2026
Band of Brothers: Legacy
Movie Self
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2025
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
TV show Anthony Brewer
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2024
Little Death
Movie Martin Solomon
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2023
Captain Fall
TV show
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2023
Extrapolations
TV show Harris Goldblatt
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2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Movie Self
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2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Movie Self
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2021
Friends: The Reunion
Movie Self
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2020
Intelligence
TV show Jerry
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2020
Mysterious Planet
TV show Narrator
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2019
The Laundromat
Movie Matthew Quirk
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2019
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
Movie Ross Geller
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2019
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
TV show Self
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2018
National Theatre Live: LOVE
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
The Big Narstie Show
TV show Self
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2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
That's Harassment
Movie Boss
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2017
Will & Grace
TV show Noah
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2016
Feed the Beast
TV show Tommy Moran
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2016
American Crime Story
TV show Robert Kardashian
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV show Self
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2014
Growing Up Fisher
TV show Director
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2013
Madly Madagascar
Movie Melman (voice)
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2012
Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
Movie Melman (voice)
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2012
The Iceman
Movie Josh Rosenthal
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2012
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Movie Melman (voice)
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2012
National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2012
John Carter
Movie Young Thark Warrior
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2011
Web Therapy
TV show Newell L. Miller
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2011
Episodes
TV show David Schwimmer
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2010
Come Fly with Me
TV show Himself
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2010
Trust
Movie Director
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2009
Merry Madagascar
Movie Melman (voice)
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2008
Nothing But the Truth
Movie Ray Armstrong
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2008
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Movie Melman (voice)
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2008
Little Britain USA
TV show Director
