RossBio

David Schwimmer / Ross Geller

Ross Geller is a long-suffering palaeontologist in a museum. In the pilot, poor Ross had just been left by his beloved wife Carol, whom have a baby boy together. However Carol had fallen in love with another woman. By the end of that first episode, he was already carrying a rather large torch for Rachel Green. It turned out that Ross had had a crush on her since the days when she was the high school pal of his little sister Monica. As the season went on, Ross suffered memorably as Rachel somehow remained utterly clueless about the fact that this Ubermensch wanted to be more than friends. What else could the guy do but get a monkey and throw himself into the "bone things" at work. Fortunately, Ross seems to be having somewhat better luck in the second season.

What he says about Ross: "He's the '90s Guy, struggling with old-fashioned values in a contemporary world."

Born: 12th November, 1966

He's the son of two lawyers and attended 'Beverly Hills High School'. As a teenager, David shined at the Southern Californian Shakespeare Festival, and played Otto Frank in The Diary of Annie Frank. Having attended a summer workshop in acting at 'Northwestern University' in Chicago, he went on to earn his degree there in speech/theatre in 1988. Afterward, he and some of his Northwestern pals formed the adventurous 'Looking-glass Theatre Company', where he directed an award-winning production of 'The Jungle'. Soon, David was turning up on shows like 'The Wonder Years', 'NYPD Blue', and 'L.A Law', and in movies such as 'Wolf', 'Flight Of The Intruder', 'Crossing the Bridge', and 'Twenty Bucks'. His debut as a TV-series regular on 1993's wobbly Henry Winkler vehicle 'Monty' was a less than thrilling one. "The only thing that I learned was that I was not going to do another situation comedy," Schwimmer told the clod from Rolling Stone. "We had to beg him to come back from Chicago since he was not that excited about doing another television show after 'Monty'." Still, the executive producers felt that this long distance Schwimmer was well worth pursuing. "David doesn't have a false move in him," Marta said. "He's just so honest and real and funny." "Of all the actors, he was the only one who was really in our heads when we wrote the role," Kevin Bright explained. "But even then, David surprised us with his abilities as a physical comedian." David is good friends with 'The Single Guy's' Jonathon Silverman and Brad Pitt's girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow - he went to college with Jonathon and guest starred on 'The Single Guy' as a favour to his old buddy, then David did a movie called 'The Pallbearer' with Gwyneth a few months ago.

Fascinating Fact: His mother being a lawyer, handled one of Roseanne's divorces. In 'The Wonder Years', he played the guy who ended up marrying Kevin's sister Karen.

What he would order at Central Perk: Double latte, non-fat milk, no foam.

Filmography

Band Of Brothers HBO mini
All the Rage (1999)
Six Days Seven Nights (1998) .... Frank Martin
Kissing a Fool (1998) .... Max Abbitt
Apt Pupil (1998) .... Edward French
Since You've Been Gone (1998) (TV) .... Robert
Breast Men (1997) (TV) .... Dr. Christopher Saunders
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life (1997) (TV) .... Himself
Pallbearer, The (1996) .... Tom Thompson
"Friends" (1994/I) TV Series .... Ross Geller
Wolf (1994) .... Cop
"Monty" (1994) TV Series .... Greg Richardson
Twenty Bucks (1993) .... Neil Campbell
Vaiter, The (1993)
Crossing the Bridge (1992) .... John Anderson
"Wonder Years, The" (1988) TV Series .... Michael (1991-1992)
Flight of the Intruder (1990) .... Duty Officer