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David Lawrence Schwimmer was born on November 2, 1966 in Astoria, Queens, New York, USA. He is an Emmy-nominated American actor and director.

Inspired by that experience, he returned to Northwestern where he received a bachelor's degree in speech/theater. In 1988, along with seven other Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company -- an ensemble of actors, writers, directors and designers dedicated to creating vibrant new works for the American stage.

Schwimmer most recently adapted Studs Terkel’s book “Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession for the stage,” which he directed as the premiere production for the company’s new theatre on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

He has acted in or directed numerous productions with Lookingglass including Of One Blood, West, The Odyssey, The Jungle, In the Eye of the Beholder, The Master and Margarita, The Arabian Nights and The Idiot. In addition, he starred in the premieres of Roger Kumble’s D Girl and Turnaround in Los Angeles and Warren Leight’s Glimmer Brothers in Williamstown.

His feature credits include Hotel, It’s the Rage, Picking Up the Pieces, Six Days Seven Nights, Apt Pupil, Kissing a Fool, The Pallbearer, Crossing the Bridge, Since You’ve Been Gone-which he also directed-and the critically acclaimed HBO films Band of Brothers and Breast Men. His television credits include Friends, which he continues to direct; Jon Avnet’s film Uprising; and recurring roles on such series as NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and The Wonder Years.

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Filmography

• Madagascar: The Crate Escape (2008)
• Nothing But the Truth (2008)
• "30 Rock" (1 episode, 2007)
• Big Nothing (2006)
• Madagascar (2005)
• Duane Hopwood (2005)
• "Friends" (238 episodes, 1994-2004)
• Uprising (2001)
• Hotel (2001)
• "Band of Brothers" (2001)
• Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
• Love & Sex (2000)
• All the Rage (1999)
• Apt Pupil (1998)
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
• Since You've Been Gone (1998)
• Kissing a Fool (1998)
• The Thin Pink Line (1998)
• Breast Men (1997)
• "ER" (1 episode, 1996)
• The Pallbearer (1996)
• "The Single Guy" (1 episode, 1995)
• The Party Favor (1995)
• "Monty" (1994)
• Wolf (1994)
• "Blossom" (2 episodes, 1993)
• "NYPD Blue" (4 episodes, 1993)
• "L.A. Law" (5 episodes, 1992-1993)
• The Pitch (1993)
• The Waiter (1993)
• Twenty Bucks (1993)
• Crossing the Bridge (1992)
• "The Wonder Years" (4 episodes, 1991-1992)
• Flight of the Intruder (1991)
• A Deadly Silence (1989)