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He became known as paleontologist Ross Geller on the sitcom Friends, a role for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance. In 2016, he portrayed Robert Kardashian on the FX series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story.
He began acting at Beverly Hills High School, and after graduating college, he co-founded Lookingglass Theatre Company as an unemployed actor.
He supplied the voice for the Giraffe, Melman, in the Madagascar franchise and won a Satellite Award for his role in the miniseries Band of Brothers as Herbert Sobel in 2001.
He married Zoe Buckman in 2010, and the following year the couple’s daughter, Cleo Buckman Schwimmer, was born. They later divorced in 2017.
On Friends, his character Ross had an on-again, off-again relationship with the character Rachel, played by Jennifer Aniston.
Quotes by David Schwimmer
"Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception."
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"I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those."
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"The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine."
David Schwimmer
"I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing."
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"I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad."
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