DAVID SCHWIMMER

Schwimmer’s many television and film acting credits include the hit comedy series Friends, for which he received his first Emmy Award Nomination, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson for which he received a second Emmy nomination, Band of Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Madagascar 1, 2 & 3, Feed the Beast, Six Days Seven Nights, Apt Pupil, The Pallbearer, Duane Hopwood, The Iceman, The Laundromat and Little Death.  Schwimmer executive produced and starred as the lead in the Sky TV / Peacock original sitcom Intelligence and in Extrapolations for Apple TV+.   

He will next be seen in Disney’s anthology series Goosebumps, based on R.L. Stine’s bestselling Scholastic series.  

Schwimmer has directed over twenty plays, including his adaptations of Studs Terkel’s RACE and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for Lookingglass, and Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers for the Second Stage Theatre.  Other stage credits outside of Lookingglass include Detroit at Playwrights Horizons, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial on Broadway and the premiere of Neil LaBute’s Some Girls in the West End, London. 

Schwimmer’s television and film directing includes ten episodes of Friends, the HBO series Little Britain USA, Growing Up Fisher for NBC, the feature films Since You’ve Been Gone, Run Fat Boy Run and the independent drama Trust starring Clive Owen, Catherine Keener and Viola Davis.  He also produced the film LOVE directed by Alexander Zeldin for the BBC based on his play produced at the National Theatre in London. 

Bio as of 2024