David Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom
Friends, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While still acting in
Friends, his first leading film role was in
The Pallbearer (1996), followed by roles in
Kissing a Fool; Six Days, Seven Nights; Apt Pupil ; and
Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries
Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel.