大卫·休默身高1.88米出生在纽约，在洛杉矶长大，父母都是律师。所以他一直都在考虑要成为一个医生或者和父母一样成为律师。但他在比弗利山中学读书时，教导主任偶然建议他参加西北大学短期表演班的戏剧表演的学习。虽然这次学习纯粹是偶然，但是他发现了自己是个好演员，更重要的是他热衷演戏。所以当他完成了课程后被鼓励在芝加哥西北大学参加一个暑期计划，之后他就确定了自己要走演戏这条路。高中毕业后，休默因为此前的经历入读西北大学。1988年毕业，得到了演讲/戏剧专业的学士学位。同年，他和7个要好的同学在芝加哥成立了Looking glass戏剧公司，7人既是演员、编剧也是导演，几人导演和参演了不少片子。现在他仍经营着这公司，为解决财政问题，他在一些戏剧中演出，也导演一些其他的片子。在1993年，休默初次在电视剧里登场，成为喜剧Monty的正式演员。因为休默众多出色的表现，1994年，NBC电视台的经典情景喜剧《老友记》开拍前，制作人为休默度身定做了罗斯·盖勒一角，休默不用试镜就得到了这个角色。有些讽刺的是，休默是在不情愿的情况下接受了罗斯一角，因为他不想再演情景喜剧。但优秀的表现还是让他在1995年被提名艾美奖喜剧类最佳男演员。不满足于《老友记》的成功，休默客串了众多在《老友记》中体验不到的角色，如《纽约重案组》。扩大了自己的兴趣范围，参加了多部影片的编剧、制片和导演。有几集《老友记》就是他导演的。大卫·休默证明了自己是个出色的演员，而且就算他不想再演戏，他也可以从事编剧或导演。他比自己所预期的要成功的多。

2010年10月13日，大卫·休默亲口证实，已于今年6月和25岁女友佐伊·巴克曼（Zoe Buckman）秘密完婚。大卫·休默和佐伊·巴克曼2007年相识，当时佐伊·巴克曼还是一名餐厅女招待，后转型当摄影师，2010年3月份之时，两人传出过订婚的消息。佐伊·巴克曼是个英国人，居住于北伦敦，和大卫·休默结婚后，她已随丈夫搬往洛杉矶生活。

David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and director of television and film. He was born in New York, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was two. He began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. For much of the late-1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor.

He appeared in the television movie A Deadly Silence in 1989. He then appeared in a number of television roles, including L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, NYPD Blue, and Monty in the early 1990s. Schwimmer later gained worldwide recognition for playing Ross Geller in the situation comedy Friends. Aside from appearing in television, he starred in his first leading role in The Pallbearer (1996), which was followed by roles in Kissing a Fool (1998), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Apt Pupil, and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) as Herbert Sobel.

Following the series finale of Friends in 2004, Schwimmer was cast as the titular character in the 2005 drama Duane Hopwood. Other film roles include the computer animated film Madagascar (2005), the dark comedy Big Nothing (2006), the thriller Nothing But the Truth (2008), and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). Schwimmer made his London stage debut in the leading role in Some Girl(s) in 2005. In 2006, he made his Broadway debut in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Schwimmer made his feature film directorial debut with the 2007 comedy Run Fatboy Run. The following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in the 2008 production Fault Lines.

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