David Schwimmer

David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American-born actor and director who plays Ross Geller on the television series Friends.

David was born on November 2, 1966 in New York, in the family of lawyers Arthur Schwimmer and Arlene Coleman, of Jews by nationality. David has an older sister, Ellie. In 1968, the parents moved with their children to Los Angeles in Beverly Hills. The Schwimmers were able to afford an elite mansion after their mother took up the divorce business.

David went to Beverly Hills High School, where, in addition to the main program, he began to attend a drama class. At the age of 10, the boy made his debut as a fairy in the play Cinderella. Two years later, David began attending Shakespeare's workshop under the guidance of British artist Ian McKellen. Here David tried his hand not only in the classical repertoire, but also in modern productions that touch on the theme of the Holocaust. For his performances in Shakespeare's plays, David has twice received the highest prize of the Youth Theater Festival, which takes place in the Lake Tahoe coastal zone.

When the master decided to move to Chicago, Schwimmer followed him. In a large center, David after a while entered the acting department of Northwestern University, after which he became one of the leaders of the Lookingglass Theater Company and the Association of Actors and Directors. In the second half of the 1980s, Schwimmer worked extensively on the theater scene as a director and actor.

David first appeared on screen in 1988 in the comedy drama Biloxi Blues. After filming Deadly Silence, David gets a supporting role in the 1991 military blockbuster Intruder's Flight. In the same year, Schwimmer first appeared on television in the family series “The Wonderful Years”.

A year later, Mike Beidner's crime tragicomedy "Crossing the Bridge" starts, in which David plays the role of the main character John Anderson. Schwimmer also appeared in the television series Los Angeles Law, which pioneered the genre of serial crime films about lawyers. In the philosophical comedy "Twenty Bucks", David again gets into the secondary cast.

Appearing in episodes of NYPD and Flower, in 1994 Schwimmer gets the lead role in Mike Nichols' thriller The Wolf, in which an all-star cast is selected: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader. In the comedy "Monty" Schwimmer is reincarnated as the liberal son of Greg Richardson, who constantly comes into conflict with his conservative father.

In the same year, James Burroughs' major television project "Friends" was launched, which influenced the artist's further creative biography. The pilot episode received 22 million viewers. The comedy series about the life of six friends in New York immediately took the first position in the NBC channel ratings, which allowed the creators to continue the work, which stretched for 10 seasons.

The roles of Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Chandler Bing, Joey Tribbiani, Phoebe Buffet were cast by producers David Crane and Martha Kauffman. As a result, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow were selected. The exception was the hero Ross Geller - a paleontologist, whose role was previously written under David Schwimmer.

For his work in the first season of Friends, David was nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series at the 95 Emmy Awards. In addition to acting, David realized himself in the series and as a director, filming 10 episodes from different seasons on his own. After the completion of the project in 2004, Jennifer Aniston took up work in cinema, Courtney Cox retrained as a producer, David Schwimmer continued acting and directing, the rest of the artists remained to work on television.

In the late 90s, David appeared in an episode of the rating series Ambulance, then in the lead role with the actress Gwyneth Paltrow in the melodrama Aliens Funeral and in the acting trio with Chris Cooper and Emily Procter in the medical drama The Implantators. On account of Schwimmer's participation in the films "Where Have You Worn?", "Able Student", "Thin Pink Line". In the box-office action adventure Six Days, Seven Nights, David starred opposite Harrison Ford and Anne Heche, and in Alphonso Aarau's fantasy comedy Piece by Piece, Schwimmer joined the cast alongside Woody Allen and Sharon Stone.

In 2001, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' war drama, Brothers in Arms, starring Schwimmer as Captain Herbert M. Sobel, appeared on television. In 2005, the actor reincarnated as the main character Dwayne Hopwood in the drama "Repentance". David's character suffers from alcoholism, but at some point decides to quit addiction and start a new life. A year later, the actor's filmography is replenished with the crime comedy "Complete Bummer" with Alice Eve and Simon Pegg in the lead roles.

In 2007, David Schwimmer directed the feature-length sports film Run Fat Run in the UK, starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton. The film grossed $ 35 million worldwide. In 2012, the actor took part in the creation of the box-office animated film Madagascar, where he voiced the character of Melman the giraffe.

Personal life of David Schwimmer has remained unchanged for a long time: despite the fact that the screen star regularly changed girlfriends, he still remained a convinced bachelor. Since the 2000s, David managed to be in close relationships with Australian singer Natalie Imbrulya, Israeli actress Mili Avital, American Rochelle Ovitt, until one day in 2007 while filming his own picture in Great Britain he met an ordinary waitress Zoe Buckman.

For three years, David hid the relationship with the girl, until he announced his engagement to an Englishwoman in 2010. In the summer, the couple got married, and in early May 2011, the wife gave David a daughter, Cleo. David Schwimmer is not a fan of social events, the actor lives quite secluded with his family. Since the star of the screen does not have its own page on Instagram, photos appear only in print or online publications.

In 2016, as part of a television show dedicated to director James Burroughs, the cast of Friends met at NBC Studios for a special two-hour episode. In 2016, David also starred in the FX drama American Crime Story, which revolves around a high-profile crime in the mid-90s featuring film and football star OJ Simpson. In the film, Schwimmer played the role of lawyer Robert Kardashian, who defended the criminal and helped him to avoid punishment.

In 2017, the actor's creative life remains busy. David is currently filming the new AMC series Feed the Beast as a cafe owner suffering losses. Schwimmer directed social videos that were included in a project aimed at combating sexual harassment against women.

In March 2017, Schwimmer made an official statement that after 7 years of marriage, he was breaking up with Zoe Buckman. The divorce of the spouses took place in April, while both remained on friendly terms.

1989 - Deadly silence 1991-1992 - Wonderful years 1993 - Twenty bucks 1994-2004 - Friends 1996 - Another's funeral 1997 - Implantators 1998 - Where have you been? 1998 - Fake Kiss 1998 - Six Days, Seven Nights 2000 - Piece by Piece 2005 - Remorse 2006 - Bummer 2012 - Internet Therapy 2016 - American Crime Story 2016 - Feed the Beast

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