David Schwimmer

Q: Has David Schwimmer won any awards?

David Schwimmer has received several nominations, including Primetime Emmy nominations, but he has not won an Academy Award.

Q: What was David Schwimmer's first film?

David Schwimmer's first film role was in 'Apt Pupil' in 1998, where he played the character Edward French.

Q: What are David Schwimmer's most successful films?

Some of David Schwimmer's most successful films include 'Apt Pupil,' 'Picking Up the Pieces,' and the 'Madagascar' series.

Q: Is David Schwimmer married?

David Schwimmer was married to Zoe Buckman from 2010 until their separation in 2017. They have one daughter together.

Q: What is David Schwimmer's estimated net worth?

David Schwimmer's estimated net worth is around $100 million, largely due to his successful acting career and directing projects.

Q: What notable TV series has David Schwimmer directed?

David Schwimmer has directed episodes of 'Friends' and more recently directed multiple episodes of 'American Crime Story.'

Q: What is a defining characteristic of David Schwimmer's acting style?

David Schwimmer is known for his expressive voice and ability to convey both humor and emotion, making his characters relatable and memorable.

Known for

Madagascar (2011)

IMDb 8.5 / 10

2011 / Documentary

Over 80 per cent of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Discover what made Madagascar so different from the rest...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2008 / Adventure, Animation / 89 min

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft...

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted poster

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2012 / Adventure, Animation / 93 min

Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to...

Name

David Schwimmer

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

2 November 1966, Queens, New York, USA

Spouses

Zoe Buckman (2010–2017)

Children

1 daughter named Cleo Buckman Schwimmer

Parents

Arthur Schwimmer, Doris Schwimmer

Estimated Net Worth

$100 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy The story of Matthew Perry's rise to fame is interwoven with the harrowing story of his final days, as his...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2025	TV Goosebumps: The Vanishing When twins Devin and Cece are sent to spend a summer in Gravesend, Brooklyn with their divorced dad, scientist Anthony...	Anthony Brewer	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2024	Movie Little Death A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog...	Martin Solomon	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2023	TV Captain Fall A goofy, gullible sea captain is hired to helm a high-end cruise ship and becomes the perfect fall guy for...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	TV Extrapolations Eight interconnected stories told over 33 years explore how our planet’s changing climate will affect family, work, faith—and survival.	Harris Goldblatt	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	Movie David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2022	Movie The Fringe, Fame and Me The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago...	Self	Not rated
2021	Movie Friends: The Reunion The cast of Friends reunites for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the hit series, an unforgettable evening filled with iconic memories,...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2020	TV Intelligence When an arrogant, maverick National Security Agent comes over from the US to join a newly-formed team tackling cybercrime at...	Jerry	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	TV Mysterious Planet	Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie The Laundromat When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama...	Matthew Quirk	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	Movie Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary Your friends are still there for you, 25 years later! Celebrate the milestone anniversary of the beloved sitcom, coming to...	Ross Geller	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2019	TV The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan is a British late-night talk show which was broadcast on Channel 4. The show...	Self	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2018	TV The Big Narstie Show Grime legend and social media sensation Big Narstie hosts an anarchic studio show along with his co-host, and the hottest...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2018	TV The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2018	Movie That's Harassment This film is a series of six short films that depicts six different cases of sexual harassment in the workplace,...	Boss	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2017	TV Will & Grace That's right, honey! A decade after their unforgettable eight-season run, comedy's most fabulous foursome is back.	Noah	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	TV Feed the Beast For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in...	Tommy Moran	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows The stars of America's greatest comedies - like Cheers, Friends, Taxi and The Big Bang Theory - get together for...	Self	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2016	TV American Crime Story An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.	Robert Kardashian	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2015	TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	TV Last Week Tonight with John Oliver A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2013	Movie Madly Madagascar Your favorite Madagascar pals are back in an all-new adventure! Alex's favorite holiday, Valentine's Day, brings hilarious surprises and excitement...	Melman (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie Dreamworks: Holiday Classics Join your favourite DreamWorks friends for these four holiday specials. Watch as those zany zoosters from Madagascar save Christmas, Donkey...	Melman (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2012	Movie The Iceman The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.	Josh Rosenthal	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo....	Melman (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie Two college film students set out to make an homage to Charlie LaRue, not for art or for money. They're...	Self (uncredited)	TMDB 2.1 / 10
2012	Movie John Carter John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars)...	Young Thark Warrior	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	TV Web Therapy Fiona Wallice is a therapist with little patience for her patients. Tired of hearing about people's problems for fifty long...	Newell L. Miller	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	TV Episodes A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.	David Schwimmer	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2010	TV Come Fly with Me Come Fly with Me is a comedy sketch series starring David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The series is a spoof...	Himself	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	Movie Merry Madagascar While trapped on the island of Madagascar, the Central Park Zoo escapees receive a visit from Santa--crash landing on their...	Melman (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie Nothing But the Truth When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that...	Ray Armstrong	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2008	Movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane....	Melman (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Big Nothing A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.	Charlie	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	TV 30 Rock Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos...	Greenzo / Jared	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2005	TV The Reichen Show A list of celebrity interviews and sensational topics.	Self	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2005	Movie Duane Hopwood A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.	Duane Hopwood	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	Movie Madagascar Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park...	Melman (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2004	TV Entourage Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty...	David Schwimmer	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	TV Celebrity Poker Showdown Celebrity Poker Showdown is a celebrity game show on the cable network Bravo. It was a limited-run series in which...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	TV The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.	Self	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2002	Movie NBC 75th Anniversary Special A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	TV Uprising On 1 September 1939, Germany invades Poland, after which a regulation was promulgated that all Polish Jews should move to...	Icchak 'Antek' Cukierman	Not rated
2001	Movie Uprising In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.	Icchak 'Antek' Cukierman	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2001	Movie Hotel A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is...	Jonathan Danderfine	TMDB 3.4 / 10
2001	TV Band of Brothers Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the...	Herbert M. Sobel	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2001	Movie The Making of 'Band of Brothers' Interviews made of the various actors and cast members that provide the knowledge and production skills and sets required to...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	TV Curb Your Enthusiasm The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem...	David Schwimmer	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie Picking Up the Pieces A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs...	Father Leo Jerome	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2000	Movie Love & Sex When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an...	Jehovah's Witness	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1999	Movie All the Rage A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of...	Chris	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1998	Movie Apt Pupil One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an...	Edward French	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1998	Movie The Thin Pink Line A film crew in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey...	Kelly Goodich / J.T.	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1998	Movie Six Days Seven Nights In the South Pacific, in Polynesia, on the island of Makatea, Quinn Harris, a taciturn pilot, leads a quiet life,...	Frank Martin	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1998	Movie Since You've Been Gone The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on...	Robert S. Levitt	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1998	Movie Kissing a Fool An egotistical television personality enlists the assistance of his best friend in putting the fidelity of his fiancé to the...	Max Abbitt	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1997	Movie Breast Men We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and...	Dr. Kevin Saunders	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	Movie Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life A special celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's 65th birthday featuring never-before-seen footage of her life and career.	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	TV E! True Hollywood Story E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	Movie The Pallbearer Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life....	Tom Thompson	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1995	TV The Single Guy	Ross Geller	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1994	TV Friends Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the...	Ross Geller	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1994	Movie Wolf An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.	Cop	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1994	TV Monty Monty is a short lived American sitcom that aired on the FOX network in 1994. The series starred Henry Winkler...	Greg Richardson	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1993	Movie Twenty Bucks A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives...	Neil Campbell	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1993	Movie The Waiter	Evil Waiter	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie Crossing the Bridge A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in...	John Anderson	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1991	Movie Flight of the Intruder U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the...	Duty Officer	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1989	Movie A Deadly Silence The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in...	Rob Cuccio	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1988	TV LIVE with Kelly and Mark A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	TV The Wonder Years The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s....	Michael	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1986	TV L.A. Law L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986,...	City Attorney Dana Romney	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1986	TV L.A. Law L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986,...	Dana Romney	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1981	TV Entertainment Tonight Daily tabloid television news show on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Host	TMDB 6.9 / 10
TBA	Movie A Sprinkle of History Sam Born, an ambitious immigrant confectioner, unknowingly finds himself in the crosshairs of a ruthless turf war over the candy...	Bill Rosenberg	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2021	Movie Friends: The Reunion The cast of Friends reunites for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the hit series, an unforgettable evening filled with iconic memories,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2020	TV Intelligence When an arrogant, maverick National Security Agent comes over from the US to join a newly-formed team tackling cybercrime at...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie National Theatre Live: LOVE In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2018	Movie That's Harassment This film is a series of six short films that depicts six different cases of sexual harassment in the workplace,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2014	TV Growing Up Fisher It's not every family that's brought closer together by divorce, but then again, the Fishers are anything but typical.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	Movie Trust A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	Movie Trust A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	TV Little Britain USA Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the stars of the smash-hit BBC comedy Little Britain, bring their unique blend of scripted...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2007	Movie Run Fatboy Run Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2005	Movie New Car Smell A Las Vegas car dealership contest pits an eclectic group of salespeople against each other to see who will become...	Director Directing	Not rated
2004	TV Joey Joey has struck out on his own and moved to Hollywood, hoping to truly make it as an actor. Joey...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1998	Movie Since You've Been Gone The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1998	Movie Kissing a Fool An egotistical television personality enlists the assistance of his best friend in putting the fidelity of his fiancé to the...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1994	TV Friends Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.4 / 10

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2022 / TMDB 10.0

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2022

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2021 / TMDB 7.8

The Laundromat

2019 / TMDB 6.0

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