His film credits include Apt Pupil, The Pallbearer, Breast Men, Kissing a Fool, Six Days Seven Nights, and Madagascar (voice). Schwimmer likewise appeared in the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks television production Band of Brothers.

Innate inside Future York & raised around Los Angeles, Schwimmer was encouraged by the high school teacher to attend a summertime program inside acting at Northwestern University. Divine by that own experience, he returned to Northwestern in which he received the bachelor's degree within speech/theater. Around 1988, along with 7 more Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company.

He processed his West End theatrical debut in 2005 in Neil LaBute's play "Some Girl(s)" at a Geilgud Theatre around London as the character 'Human' alongside Catherine Tate, Saffron Burrows, Sara Powell, and Lesley Manville.