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| David Schwimmer�s performance as Ross, a sensitive, hopeless romantic, has earned him an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series as well as popular and critical acclaim for 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 attend 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 continues to direct episodes of �Friends.� Schwimmer is currently adapting the book �Race,� by Studs Terkel, which he will direct as the opening production for his drama company�s new theater, now under construction, in Chicago in May 2003. Among Schwimmer�s feature credits are �Hotel� (a dark comedy from Mike Figgis) �It�s the Rage,� �Picking up the Pieces,� �Six Days, Seven Nights,� �Apt Pupil,� �Kissing a Fool,� �The Pallbearer,� �Crossing the Bridge� and the critically acclaimed HBO TV projects longform projects �Band of Brothers� and �Breast Men.� His television credits include �Uprising,� Jon Avnet�s 2001 miniseries about the Warsaw Ghetto resistance during World War II, as well as recurring roles on such series as �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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