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David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966^[1]) is an American actor. He played Ross Geller, one of the six main characters in the televisionsitcomFriends.

Early life

Schwimmer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, to Arthur Schwimmer and Arlene Colman.^[1] He then lived in Valley Stream, Long Island, until he was two years old. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School.^[1]

He attended Northwestern University’s summer “Cherub” program (the National High School Institute) in 1983. He later enrolled at the university as a theater student. In 1988, along with seven other Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company.

Personal life

Schwimmer married Zoe Buckman in June 2010. He has a daughter Cleo Buckman Schwimmer. He lives in Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York.

Filmography

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When the 1994 fall television season began, NBC’s Friends quickly became one of the breakout success stories of the new lineup, and David Schwimmer quickly became its breakout male sex symbol. As Ross Geller, the nerdy but attractive paleontologist whose wife left him for another woman, Schwimmer was immediately pegged as the perfect man for the 1990s: he was sweet and sensitive. With his personality not so far removed from his character’s, Schwimmer has sheepishly accepted all the praise and accolades that come with his newfound super-stardom.

Born in Queens, New York, Schwimmer grew up in Los Angeles with his prominent attorney parents Arlene and Arthur Schwimmer and an older sister. “Even as a kid I knew I would be an actor or an ophthalmic surgeon,” he mused to Rolling Stone. “I’d lose myself in all kinds of wild roles or perform laser eye surgery.” He insister in People, “I was a fat, ugly geek.” When friends from his alma mater Beverly Hills High read that Schwimmer considered himself a nerd, he told US, they call and say “You were not - we all looked up to you!”

But Schwimmer never felt anything like so many of the beautiful people that went to this famously wealthy high school. As he told Janice Dunn in Us, “The popular clique was t