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Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode titled "Talking Points". He is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World.[1] He had a recurring role on the HBO series Ballers. Since September 2017 he has had a leading role in ABC's medical drama The Good Doctor, as Dr. Aaron Glassman, president of a fictional teaching hospital in San Jose, California.[2]

Richard Schiff
Schiff at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight
Born	(1955-05-27) May 27, 1955 (age 67) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater	City College of New York
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Sheila Kelley ​ (m. 1996)​
Children	2
Relatives	Clarence B. Jones (stepfather)

Early life

Schiff was born on May 27, 1955, in Bethesda, Maryland, and was raised in New York City. He is the second of three sons of Charlotte, a television and publishing executive, and Edward Schiff, a real estate lawyer.[3] His parents divorced, and Charlotte later married Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer.[4][5] His early jobs before acting included driving a taxi in New York City and cleaning buses in the Greyhound terminal on 11th Avenue. "It was a Teamster job, from 11pm to 7am. ... We cleaned the grease off bus wheels with diesel fuel. I also laid cable for Manhattan Cable Television. I was a Teamster in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers".[6] Schiff and his family are Jewish. His grandfather had alleged connections to the Jewish Mafia of New York.[7][8] He studied acting at the William Esper Studio.[9]

Career

Schiff initially studied directing. He directed several off-Broadway plays, including Antigone in 1983 with a just-graduated Angela Bassett. In the mid-1980s Schiff decided to try his hand at acting and landed several TV roles. He was seen by Steven Spielberg in an episode of the TV drama High Incident and was cast in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) which led to being cast more frequently and eventually to the role as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler in the television series The West Wing. Schiff became known for his reclusive and intense approach to his craft as well as his low-key delivery style.[10]

In 1995, Schiff portrayed a lawyer in Se7en. In 1996, he guest-starred on the TV series ER (Season 2, Episode 17), and appeared in NYPD Blue the following year. In 1996, he portrayed a corrupt probation officer in City Hall along with Al Pacino and John Cusack. Schiff portrayed a doctor alongside Eddie Murphy in the 1998 Dr. Dolittle remake. He also portrayed Col./Brig. Gen. Robert Laurel Smith in the 1998 HBO TV movie The Pentagon Wars, based on the real-life development of the US Army's Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The same year, Schiff appeared in the movie Deep Impact. Schiff appeared in one episode of Becker during its first season. In 2001, he acted in the movie What's the Worst That Could Happen? starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito. He played the part of the tough lawyer Mr. Turner in I Am Sam opposite Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer and co-starred in People I Know with Al Pacino.

Schiff appeared in Ray as Jerry Wexler, shaving his beard for the role. After working on The West Wing for six seasons, Schiff chose to leave the series, fulfilling his contractual obligations by appearing in half of the final season's episodes. That same year, he starred alongside Peter Krause in Civic Duty.

Schiff had a cameo appearance as himself in the second-season finale of the series Entourage. The scene has Schiff at lunch with his agent Ari Gold, where he declares a desire to act in action movies. He appeared again as a fictionalized version of himself in Entourage (2015). He also starred in the premiere run of Underneath the Lintel, a one-act, single-character play by Glen Berger, at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In February 2007, he appeared in the West End production of Underneath the Lintel in the Duchess Theatre[5] in London, England, and appeared on BBC Radio Five Live and talked at length to Simon Mayo about his experiences acting in The West Wing and his new West End production. In 2007, he appeared as Philip Cowen in the season finale of Burn Notice. A radio version of Underneath the Lintel, performed by Schiff, was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on January 5, 2008. Schiff starred in Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey in fall 2008 as accountant Matt Friedman, opposite Margot White as Sally Talley. Later that year Schiff co-starred in Last Chance Harvey with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson and Another Harvest Moon with Ernest Borgnine and appeared in the season finale of Eli Stone.

Schiff portrayed Charles Fischer in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the Season 2 episode "Complications". The character was a collaborator of Skynet and a traitor to the resistance. He was sent back in time to the present as a reward for his service to Skynet. He played an Orthodox rabbi on an episode of In Plain Sight with former West Wing co-star Mary McCormack. In 2009, he co-starred in the movies Imagine That, with Eddie Murphy, and Solitary Man, with Michael Douglas and Susan Sarandon. Later in 2009, he returned to London to shoot two other movies: The Infidel,[11] in which he starred opposite Omid Djalili, and Made in Dagenham, with Sally Hawkins and Bob Hoskins. Schiff also appeared as a hypnotist in one episode of Monk's seventh season.

Schiff starred in Past Life. He also had a recurring role in Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior as FBI Director Jack Fickler. Schiff had a recurring role in The Cape.[12] He also has guest-starred on Any Human Heart with Jim Broadbent playing the role of a psychiatrist and on White Collar's second-season episode 15. He also played the role of an ex-CIA agent in a terrorist organization in Johnny English Reborn. In April 2011, Schiff returned to the London West End in the play Smash![13] He played opposite Rob Lowe in the drama Knife Fight, and starred opposite Josh Duhamel, Rosario Dawson and Bruce Willis in Fire with Fire. Schiff played an important plot character in three episodes of CBS's NCIS, bridging seasons 9 and 10, as Harper Dearing, the replacement for Osama bin Laden on the Most Wanted Wall for attacks against the United States Navy.

Schiff was cast to star in the Showtime series House of Lies, starring Kristen Bell and Don Cheadle. He also starred in the TV movie Innocent with Bill Pullman. He had a recurring guest role in the TV series Once Upon A Time and joined Helen Hunt and former West Wing star Bradley Whitford in the movie Decoding Annie Parker. Schiff starred in the political series Chasing The Hill.

In late 2012 and early 2013 he portrayed George Aaronow in a Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. He portrayed Erie Smith in a revival of the Eugene O'Neill play, Hughie, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., in February and March 2013, and Dr. Emil Hamilton in Zack Snyder's 2013 Superman film, Man of Steel. In September 2014, Schiff returned to the West End in a revival of Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet, co-starring Lindsay Lohan. In 2015, Schiff appeared as Dwayne Johnson's character's boss on HBO's Ballers. Around the same time, he also had roles in the films Kill the Messenger, The Automatic Hate, and Take Me to the River.

Schiff had a regular role on the TNT's crime drama Murder in the First as David Hertzberg. The show also starred Taye Diggs, Kathleen Robertson, and Tom Felton.

He will be the voice of Odin in Santa Monica Studio's upcoming game God of War Ragnarök in 2022.

Personal life

Schiff and actress Sheila Kelley married in 1996.[14] Kelley played Schiff's character's love interest, and later his wife, on The Good Doctor. They have a son, Gus, born in 1994, and a daughter, Ruby, born in August 2000.[14]

Schiff has supported Democratic candidates, but has said he is not a registered member of the party.[15] He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Previously, he had endorsed then-Senator Joe Biden, before Biden dropped out. In 2016, Schiff supported Senator Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries.[16] He endorsed Cynthia Nixon's bid for Governor of New York in the 2018 election.[17] Schiff supported Joe Biden in the 2020 election.[18]

On November 10, 2020, Schiff announced that he and his wife had tested positive for COVID-19 on Election Day and were quarantining at their home in Vancouver.[19] The following Monday, he announced he was hospitalized, but "showing improvements" while Kelley was at home "doing better", but still sick.[20] On November 19, 2020, Schiff was released from the hospital.[21]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Arena Brains	Deli Clerk	Short film
1988	Medium Straight	Pat Harding
1990	Young Guns II	Rat Bag
1992	Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot	Gun Clerk
	Rapid Fire	Art Teacher
	The Public Eye	Thompson Street Photographer
	Malcolm X	JFK Reporter
	The Bodyguard	Skip Thomas
	Hoffa	Government Attorney
1993	Skinner	Eddie
	My Life	Young Bill Ivanovich
	Ghost in the Machine	Scanner Technician
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Mailroom Screamer
	Speed	Train Driver
	Major League II	Commercial Director
1995	Tank Girl	Trooper In Trench
	Rough Magic	Marvin Wiggins
	Se7en	Mark Swarr
1996	City Hall	Larry Schwartz
	The Arrival	Calvin
	The Trigger Effect	Gun Shop Clerk
	Michael	Italian Waiter
1997	Touch	Jerry
	Volcano	Haskins
	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Eddie Carr
1998	Dr. Dolittle	Gene Reiss
	Living Out Loud	Phil 'Philly' Francato
	Deep Impact	Don Beiderman
1999	Forces of Nature	Joe
	Crazy in Alabama	Norman
2000	Gun Shy	Elliot
	Whatever It Takes	P.E. Teacher
2001	I Am Sam	Mr. Turner
	What's the Worst That Could Happen?	Walter Greenbaum
2002	People I Know	Elliot Sharansky
2004	Ray	Jerry Wexler
2004	With It	Virgil LaRocca	Short film
2006	Civic Duty	Tom Hilary
2007	Waiting	John	Short film
	Martian Child	Mr. Lefkowitz
2008	Last Chance Harvey	Marvin
2009	Imagine That	Carl Simons
	Solitary Man	Steve Heller
	Another Harvest Moon	Jeffery
2010	The Infidel	Lenny Goldberg
	Made in Dagenham	Robert Tooley
2011	Johnny English Reborn	Titus Fisher
2012	Knife Fight	Dimitris Vargas
2013	Decoding Annie Parker	Mr. Allen
	The Frozen Ground	Roy Hazelwood
	Man of Steel	Emil Hamilton
2014	Kill the Messenger	Richard Zuckerman / Walter Pincus
	The Gambler	Jeweler
	Before I Disappear	Bruce Warham
2015	The Automatic Hate	Ronald Green
	Entourage	Himself
	Take Me to the River	Don
2016	American Fable	Jonathan
2017	Alien Code	Miles Driskoll	AKA The Men
	Shock and Awe	The Usual
	Geostorm	Senator Thomas Cross
2019	Clemency	Marty Lumetta
	After Class	Jeff Cohen
2022	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	TBA	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Cheers	Tourist	Episode: "One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape"
1990	Tales from the Crypt	Lester Middleton	Episode: "Korman's Kalamity"
1992	Picket Fences	Joey Fero	Episode: "Pilot"
	L.A. Law	Dog Pound Operator	Episode: "Helter Shelter"
1993	South of Sunset	Bobby Bruck	Episode: "Dream Girl"
	Doogie Howser, M. D.	Billy Tishler	Episode: "What Makes Doogie Run"
1994	The John Larroquette Show	Wilson	Episode: "Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste"
	Murphy Brown	Mel Woodworthy	Episode: "Anything but Cured"
	Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas	Deputy Dano	Television film
	Thunder Alley	Pat Perkins	Episode: "Blood Suckers"
	Love & War	Lester Michaels	Episode: "The Bum"
1995	Maybe This Time	Pearlman	Episode: "Snitch Doggy-Dogg"
	NYPD Blue	Vartan Illiescu	Episode: "Bombs Away"
	Murder One	Professor Stanley Fletcher	Episode: "Chapter Nine"
1996	ER	Mr. Bartoli	Episode: "The Match Game"
	Chicago Hope	Mark Sarison	Episode: "Quiet Riot"
	Special Report: Journey to Mars	Eric Altman	Television film
1996–1997	Relativity	Barry Roth	Main 17 episodes
1997	NYPD Blue	Steve Cameron	Episode: "Is Paris Burning?"
1998	The Practice	Bob Show	Episode: "Trees in the Forest"
	Brooklyn South	Chris McIntrick	Episode: "Cinnamon Buns"
	Ally McBeal	Bernie Gilson	Episode: "These Are the Days"
	The Pentagon Wars	Lieutenant Colonel / Brigadier General Robert Laurel Smith	Television film
	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	Mr. Green	Television film
1999–2006	The West Wing	Toby Ziegler	Main 141 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2000) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2001–02) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2001–02) Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2003–06)
1999	Becker	Barry	Episode: "Truth and Consequences"
	Roswell	Agent Stevens	Recurring 3 episodes
2005	Entourage	Himself	Episode: "The Abyss"
2007	Burn Notice	Phillip Cowan	Recurring 2 episodes
2008	Eli Stone	David Green	Episode: "Soul Free"
	Monk	Dr. Lawrence Climan	Episode: "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized"
	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	Charles Fischer	Episode: "Complications"
2009	In Plain Sight	Samuel Garfinkel	Episode: "Aguna Matatala"
2010	Past Life	Dr. Malachi Talmadge	Main 9 episodes
	Svetlana	Dr. Lawrence	Episode: "Eco-Shlong"
	Any Human Heart	Dr. Byrne	Recurring 2 episodes
2011	The Cape	Patrick Portman	Recurring 3 episodes
	White Collar	Andrew Stanzler	Episode: "Power Play"
	Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior	Jack Fickler	Recurring 4 episodes
	Up All Night	Dr. Dean Chafin	Episode: "Parents"
2012–2016	House of Lies	Harrison 'Skip' Galweather	Recurring 9 episodes
2012	Once Upon a Time	King Leopold	Recurring 2 episodes
	The Mindy Project	Doctor	Episode: "Pilot"
	NCIS	Harper Dearing	Recurring 3 episodes
2013	Bones	Professor Leon Watters	Episode: "The Spark in the Park"
2014	Murder in the First	David Hertzberg	Main 10 episodes
	Key and Peele	Ambassador	Episode: "Sex Addict Wendell"
2014–2015	Manhattan	Occam	Recurring 9 episodes
2015	Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp	Dean Fairchild	Episode: "Auditions"
2015–2017	Rogue	Marty Stein	Main 22 episodes
2015–2019	Ballers	Brett Anderson	Recurring 26 episodes
	The Affair	Jon Gottlief	Recurring 12 episodes
2016	The Grinder	Gordon Stutz	Recurring 2 episodes
	Mom	Robert	Episode: "Pure Evil and a Free Piece of Cheesecake"
	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	Detective Zimmerfield	Recurring 5 episodes
2017	When We Rise	Judge Vaughn Walker	Recurring 2 episodes
	Chicago Justice	Frank Linden	Episode: "Tycoon"
	Jean-Claude Van Johnson	Alan Morris	Recurring 2 episodes
2017–present	The Good Doctor	Dr. Aaron Glassman	Main
2018	Castle Rock	Warden Porter's Superior (voice)	Episode: "Harvest"
2018–2019	Counterpart	Roland Fancher	Recurring 7 episodes
2020	Psych 2: Lassie Come Home	Dr. Hirsch	Television film
	A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote	Toby Ziegler	Television special
2022	Super Pumped	Randall Pearson	Episodes: "Grow or Die" and "War"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2022	God of War Ragnarök	Odin

References

External links

• Official website
• Richard Schiff at IMDb
• Richard Schiff at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

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[ru] Шифф, Ричард

Ричард Шифф (англ. Richard Schiff; род. 27 мая 1955, Бетесда, Мэриленд) — американский актёр, обладатель премии «Эмми» в 2000 году за роль Тоби Зиглера в телесериале «Западное крыло».

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