David Schwimmer

Also known as David Lawrence Schwimmer

American actor

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David Schwimmer is an American actor best known for playing Ross Geller on the popular television series "Friends." He has also appeared in various films and other television shows throughout his career.

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Within Vinony's link graph, David Schwimmer is referenced by 468 other articles, and connects out to IMDb, Broadway theatre and Entourage.

It sits within the topics 1966 births, 20th-century American male actors and 21st-century American Jews.

Its subject is documented across 66 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Works: 1

Top works

The Best of Friends

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Film & TV

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,…

Known for

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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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 347
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

via Last.fm · David Schwimmer

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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Image: David Schwimmer 2011.jpg
Height: 1.85
Number of children: 1

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Commons category: David Schwimmer
date of birth: 1966-11-02
start of work period: 1989-00-00
birth name: David Lawrence Schwimmer
social media followers: 698327

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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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