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david schwimmer
Ross Geller brought him to fame, thanks to his performance in the television series Friends (1994), and although he has always tried to “get rid” of that character, the truth is that everyone knows him for that role that has given us so much. made laugh. Director, actor and father of a girl, David Schwimmer will always be Ross.
He was born in New York on November 2, 1966, although he grew up in Los Angeles, where he began training to be an actor. Since he was little, he already participated in his school’s plays, but it was in a summer camp that he offered at Northwestern University in Chicago where he really began to specialize. After graduating from Los Angeles High School, he returned to Northwestern with 7 friends he met that summer and together they founded “Lookingglass”, a theater company in Chicago.
David Schwimmer has participated in numerous television series such as Los Angeles Law (1986), Those Wonderful Years (1988) and New York Police Officers (1993). But without a doubt, the one that brought him fame was the famous sitcom Friends (1994), where he made us laugh in its 10 seasons, until 2003, giving life to Ross Geller, Monica’s brother. The series tells the experiences of a group of friends who live in Manhattan. Executive producer Kevin Bright claimed that he did the role of Ross especially for David, who initially did not accept it. He got a lot of positive reviews for this performance and was even nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The series starringJennifer Aniston , Courteney Cox , Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc , Matthew Perry and Schwimmer himself, lasted 10 seasons and is considered one of the best series in television history.
In the TV miniseries, set in World War II and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks , Blood Brothers (2011), Schwimmer plays Captain Herbert Sobel. Thanks to this role he won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His first feature film came with Flight of the Intruder (1991), a story about a group of soldiers. In Pallbearer (1996) she shares the screen with Gwyneth Paltrow , and decided to accept her role for the sole reason of giving a different interpretation to Ross’s; however, it did not get very good reviews.
Two years later he had a supporting role in Six Days and Seven Nights (1998), along with Harrison Ford and Anne Heche . It is a romantic comedy in which the main characters have a plane crash and get lost on a deserted island. In that same year, he participated in Verano de corrupción (1998) and in the comedy Desde que os fuisteis (1998), where in addition to acting he directed the film.
In Little Bites (2000), a black comedy directed by Mexican director Alfonso Arau , he shared the screen with none other than Woody Allen and Sharon Stone . Schwimmer plays a priest who falls in love with a prostitute. A year later, he worked on Uprising in Poland (2001), a war drama based on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943.
Schwimmer has few leading roles: the independent film Duane Hopwood (2005), which chronicles the life of a divorced alcoholic father, and Big Nothing (2006), where he plays Charlie, an embittered and unemployed scientist. In 2012 he also starred in The Iceman , a drama about Richard Kuklinski, a family man who hides his true profession from his wife and daughters: a murderer. He has also been a voice actor in famous animated films: Madagascar (2005), Madagascar 2: Escape Africa (2008), Madagascar 3 (2012) and The Penguins of Madagascar (2013), in all of them voicing Melman the giraffe.
David Schwimmer combines his work as an actor with that of a director. In addition to offering his talent in some episodes of series ( Little Britain USA and Friends ), up to now he has been behind the cameras in half a dozen films, including the aforementioned Since You Were Gone (1998), the comedy Long Distance Runner (2007), with Simon Pegg , and the thriller You Can Trust Me (2011).