David Schwimmer engaged to Brit photog

The man who played thrice-married Ross Gellar on "Friends" is getting ready for his first real-life trip to the altar.

A representative for David Schwimmer told EW.com that the 43-year-old actor-director is engaged to British photographer Zoe Buckman, 24.

The news came as Schwimmer was in Chicago for the world premiere of "Trust," a play he co-wrote and co-directed at Lookingglass Theatre. Schwimmer, a 1988 Northwestern grad, is a Lookingglass co-founder.

Buckman, also never married, reportedly met Schwimmer when she was a waitress in 2007 as he was directing the movie "Run Fatboy Run."

She's not the first international conquest for the actor, linked earlier to Australian pop singer Natalie Imbruglia and Israeli actress Mili Avital.

Since the end of "Friends" in 2004, Schwimmer has voiced a giraffe in two "Madagascar" films, made his Broadway debut in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" and starred in a Lookingglass revival of "Our Town."