What ethnicity is David Schwimmer?

Posted by Carisa Kissane on Saturday, May 18, 2024

Actor David Schwimmer is of Jewish ethnicity.

Schwimmer was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City, to attorneys Arthur and Arlene Coleman-Schwimmer.

His parents, Arlene Coleman and Arthur Schwimmer are both Jewish – they descend from Jewish emigrants from Ukraine, Austria, Russia, Germany, and Belarus.

David has an older sister named Ellie. At age 10, his family moved to Los Angeles, where Schwimmer had his first acting experience.

In his first acting experience, Schwimmer was cast as the fairy godmother in a Jewish version of Cinderella.

Following his mother’s successful career as a divorce lawyer, the family relocated to Beverly Hills, where David Schwimmer attended Beverly Hills High School.

Schwimmer commenced his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School.

In 1988, David graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech.

After graduating, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company with seven other Northwestern graduates and returned to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

David Schwimmer shot to fame 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.

His other film credits include  Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Band of Brothers (2001), Big Nothing (2006), The Iceman (2012), Feed the Beast (2016), That’s Harassment (2018), Intelligence (2020–2021) and Extrapolations (2023).

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