Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty.Īfter the series finale of Friends in 2004, Schwimmer branched out into film and stage work. For much of the late 1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor, until he starred in the television movie A Deadly Silence in 1989 and appeared in a number of television roles in the early 1990s, including L.A. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech. Schwimmer began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. He was then cast in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel.

While still acting in 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 gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends, 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.

David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and comedian.

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