Figure timeline
David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor, director, 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 b…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · American actor (born 1966) · television actor · film actor · film director · film producer · voice actor · stage actor · actor · producer · director · also David Schwimmer, Schwimmer
Born 2 November 1966 · Q188792
40 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
3 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
As a director, I was struck by the challenge that I thought the script presented, which was that it was kind of three films in one. You had some great, big physical comedy, and I thought funny dialogue and characters. And then there was some real emotion to it with the relationship between the father and the son and the romance aspect.
but I wanted to be part of the movie
76%WikipediaSource
“As a director, I was struck by the challenge that I thought the script presented, which was that it was kind of three films in one. You had some great, big physical comedy, and I thought funny dialogue and characters. And then there was some real emotion to it with the relationship between the father and the son and the romance aspect.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“but I wanted to be part of the movie”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Page Six: David Schwimmer calls on Elon Musk to remove ‘deranged bigot’ Kanye West from X over ‘hate-filled, ignorant’ rant
Rolling Stone: David Schwimmer Blasts Elon Musk for Allowing Kanye West’s ‘Ignorant Bile’ on X
Boston Herald: David Schwimmer makes friends with mystery in “Goosebumps: The Vanishing”
Page Six: David Schwimmer reveals he once ‘served’ Rod Stewart divorce papers: ‘I don’t think he knows’
Yahoo: One Last Thing with David Schwimmer: All About His Last On-Set Injury: ‘I’m No Longer 22’ (Exclusive)
collider: “The Fun is Just Using Your Imagination”: David Schwimmer Is Finally Experiencing the Horror Genre With ‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’
AOL: David Schwimmer breaks down the 'gross' scene he improvised with a garden tool on “Goosebumps”
Starred as botany professor Anthony Brewer in the second season of supernatural horror anthology series Goosebumps: The Vanishing, earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yahoo: 'Friends' icon David Schwimmer is to star in 'Goosebumps' S2
Snopes rated the claim “In "Friends," Ross's mix-up between Emily and Rachel originated by accident, in a mistake by the actor David Schwimmer.” True.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
Schwimmer was cast as a main character in the British sitcom Intelligence broadcast on Sky One
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And aired 10 episodes through August before being canceled
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer starred as lawyer Robert Kardashian in The People v
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer played Robert Kardashian in the first season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer was cast as the lead in the ABC comedy pilot Irreversible, playing "one half of a somewhat eccentric, self-absorbed couple"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer appeared as Josh Rosenthal, a mobster who was brought up by the notorious Roy DeMeo and part of the Gambino Family, alongside Michael Shannon in The Iceman
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
UPI: Topic: David Schwimmer
Rebutted two longstanding rumors: one that he appeared as a soldier on a train in Biloxi Blues (1988), saying, "No
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Their daughter Cleo Buckman Schwimmer was born in 2011.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer guest-starred on the British comedy series Come Fly with Me starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams, whom he directed in Little Britain USA
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer played himself in the sixth season of the HBO television series, Entourage
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer made a guest appearance in the second season of the television series 30 Rock, where he played Greenzo, an NBC environmental mascot
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
With the comedy Run Fatboy Run, and the following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in Fault Lines
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer began a relationship with British artist Zoë Buckman in 2007 and they married on June 4, 2010.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Made his Broadway debut in Herman Wouk's two-act play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer branched out into film and stage work
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer was director and executive producer on Nevermind Nirvana, a sitcom about an Indian American family that was not picked up by NBC
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer played Captain Herbert M
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Were Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, and Apt Pupil
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And was watched by almost 22 million American viewers
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer was cast as Ross Geller in NBC's situation comedy Friends, a series that revolved around a group of friends who live near each other in Manhattan
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And the comedy-drama series The Wonder Years
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And appeared in a number of television roles in the early 1990s, including L
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
With a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
With a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Schwimmer graduated from Beverly Hills High and wanted to go straight into acting, but his parents insisted he go to college first so he would have something to fall back on
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
(although some sources say November 12), in Flushing, Queens, New York City, to attorneys Arthur (1941–2024) and Arlene Coleman-Schwimmer (born 1940)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1966-11-02.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections