Paleontologist Ross has had a hard time facing life since his wife Carol (Janet Sibbett) left him and announced that she is a lesbian. His life is further complicated by the fact that he is co-parenting his son with his ex-wife and her lover. Intelligent, highly emotional and romantic, Ross has been unlucky in love--except for those times when he has been dating Rachel and the one time he married her. Still teaching at the university, Ross will continue to navigate these halls of higher learning as he copes with the ups and downs in the classroom and the faculty lounge.
		In the debut season (1994-95) of “Friends,” David Schwimmer’s performance as Ross, a sensitive, hopeless romantic, earned him an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Receiving both popular and critical acclaim for his work, Schwimmer has displayed his versatility on stage, in film and television in a wide variety of roles. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Schwimmer was encouraged by a high school instructor to atttend a summer program in acting at Northwestern University. 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 now 20-members strong, dedicated to creating vibrant new works for the American stage. Schwimmer’s stage acting credits with Lookingglass include Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot,” as well as “The Master and Margarita,” “Arabian Nights,” “In the Eye of the Beholder,” “West,” “Of One Blood” and “The Odyssey.” In addition, he starred in the premiers of Roger Kumble’s “D Girl” in Los Angeles and Warren Leight’s “Glimmer Brothers” in Williamstown. Schwimmer’s stage directing credits include his adaptation of “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, which received six Joseph Jefferson Awards, “The Serpent” and “Alice in Wonderland,” which toured to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. He also directed the feature film “Since You’ve Been Gone” for Miramax, and recently began directing episodes of “Friends.” Schwimmer recently completed work for Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in “Band of Brothers,” a miniseries this fall based on World War II historian Stephen Ambrose’s book about an Army rifle company that parachuted into France on D-Day. He will also appear in “Hotel,” a dark comedy from Mike Figgis and “Uprising,” the NBC miniseries about the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. His feature credits include “It’s the Rage,” with Gary Sinise, Giovanni Ribisi and Joan Allen, “Picking Up the Pieces,” “Six Days, Seven Nights,” “Apt Pupil,” “Kissing a Fool,” “The Pallbearer,” “Crossing the Bridge” and the critically acclaimed HBO film “Breast Men.” Television credits include roles on such series as “Monty” with Henry Winkler, “NYPD Blue,” “The Wonder Years” and “L.A. Law.” Schwimmer is on the board of directors of the Rape Foundation for the Rape Treatment Center of Santa Monica, plays various sports and enjoys a friendly game of poker. He has residences in Los Angeles and Chicago. His birthday is November 2.

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