David Schwimmer

Also known as David Lawrence Schwimmer

American actor

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David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American television and film actor, director, and producer. Born on November 2, 1966, in Flushing, New York City, he is a citizen of the United States. Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High School and Northwestern University. He began his professional work period in 1989.

Schwimmer is a member of the American Jewish ethnic group and practices Judaism. He resides in the East Village and speaks English. His notable work includes the film *Madagascar*. He has one child and stands at a height of 1.85 meters.

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Person · Open Library

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The Best of Friends

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Acting · 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 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,…

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Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy — Self (archive footage)2025
Goosebumps: The Vanishing — Anthony Brewer2025
Little Death — Martin Solomon2024
Extrapolations — Harris Goldblatt2023
Captain Fall2023
The Fringe, Fame and Me — Self2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count — Self2022
Friends: The Reunion — Self2021
Mysterious Planet — Narrator2020
Intelligence — Jerry2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1966

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Total plays: 880

David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and director of television and film. Born in New York, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of two. Several years later, 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 Angel

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,040x
Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,841x
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 63,635x
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 63,464x
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 58,742x

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Encyclopedic overview

David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, director, comedian and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While on Friends, his first leading film role was in The Pallbearer (1996), followed by roles in Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, Apt Pupil (all 1998) and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). Schwimmer was also in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel.

Schwimmer began his acting career performing in school plays at Immanuel College Prep, Bushey England and then Beverly Hills High School. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago. He later moved back to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career, debuting in the television film A Deadly Silence in 1989 and appeared in a number of television roles in the early 1990s, including L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty.

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