Richard Schiff

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Richard Schiff
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Schiff at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight
Born (1955-05-27) May 27, 1955 (age 68)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater City College of New York
OccupationActor
Years active1983–present
Spouse
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(m. 1996)​
Children2
Relatives Clarence B. Jones (stepfather)

Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing , a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his television 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] He also provided the voice and motion-capture for Odin in Santa Monica Studio's God of War: Ragnarök , released in 2022. [3]

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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.[ citation needed ] His brothers are producer Paul Schiff and talent manager David Schiff. [4] His parents divorced, and Charlotte later married Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer. [5] [6] 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". [7] Schiff and his family are Jewish. His grandfather had alleged connections to the Jewish Mafia of New York. [8] [9] He studied acting at the William Esper Studio. [10]

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. [11]

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 .

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Schiff in May 2009

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 [6] 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 , [12] 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 . [13] 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! [14] 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 provided the facial and motion capture, and voice for Odin in Santa Monica Studio's game God of War Ragnarök , released in 2022.

Personal life

Schiff and actress Sheila Kelley married in 1996. [15] 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. [15]

Schiff has supported Democratic candidates, but has said he is not a registered member of the party. [16] 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. [17] He endorsed Cynthia Nixon's bid for Governor of New York in the 2018 election. [18] Schiff supported Joe Biden in the 2020 election. [19]

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. [20] The following Monday, he announced he was hospitalized, but "showing improvements" while Kelley was at home "doing better", but still sick. [21] On November 19, 2020, Schiff was released from the hospital. [22]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1987Arena BrainsDeli ClerkShort film
1988Medium StraightPat 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
2004With ItVirgil LaRoccaShort film
2006 Civic Duty Tom Hilary
2007WaitingJohnShort 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
2017Alien 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 U.S. Secretary of State

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 Cheers TouristEpisode: "One Happy Chappy in a Snappy Serape"
1990 Tales from the Crypt Lester MiddletonEpisode: "Korman's Kalamity"
1992 Picket Fences Joey FeroEpisode: "Pilot"
L.A. Law Dog Pound OperatorEpisode: "Helter Shelter"
1993 South of Sunset Bobby BruckEpisode: "Dream Girl"
Doogie Howser, M. D. Billy TishlerEpisode: "What Makes Doogie Run"
1994 The John Larroquette Show WilsonEpisode: "Don't Drink and Drive Nuclear Waste"
Murphy Brown Mel WoodworthyEpisode: "Anything but Cured"
Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas Deputy DanoTelevision film
Thunder Alley Pat PerkinsEpisode: "Blood Suckers"
Love & War Lester MichaelsEpisode: "The Bum"
1995 Maybe This Time PearlmanEpisode: "Snitch Doggy-Dogg"
NYPD Blue Vartan IlliescuEpisode: "Bombs Away"
Murder One Professor Stanley FletcherEpisode: "Chapter Nine"
1996 ER Mr. BartoliEpisode: "The Match Game"
Chicago Hope Mark SarisonEpisode: "Quiet Riot"
Special Report: Journey to MarsEric AltmanTelevision film
1996–1997 Relativity Barry Roth17 episodes
1997 NYPD Blue Steve CameronEpisode: "Is Paris Burning?"
1998 The Practice Bob ShowEpisode: "Trees in the Forest"
Brooklyn South Chris McIntrickEpisode: "Cinnamon Buns"
Ally McBeal Bernie GilsonEpisode: "These Are the Days"
The Pentagon Wars Lieutenant Colonel / Brigadier General Robert Laurel SmithTelevision film
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Mr. GreenTelevision film
1999–2006 The West Wing Toby Ziegler141 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 BarryEpisode: "Truth and Consequences"
Roswell Agent Stevens3 episodes
2005 Entourage HimselfEpisode: "The Abyss"
2007 Burn Notice Phillip Cowan2 episodes
2008 Eli Stone David GreenEpisode: "Soul Free"
Monk Dr. Lawrence ClimanEpisode: "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized"
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Charles FischerEpisode: "Complications"
2009 In Plain Sight Samuel GarfinkelEpisode: "Aguna Matatala"
2010 Past Life Dr. Malachi Talmadge9 episodes
Svetlana Dr. LawrenceEpisode: "Eco-Shlong"
Any Human Heart Dr. Byrne2 episodes
2011 The Cape Patrick Portman3 episodes
White Collar Andrew StanzlerEpisode: "Power Play"
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior Jack Fickler4 episodes
Up All Night Dr. Dean ChafinEpisode: "Parents"
2012–2016 House of Lies Harrison 'Skip' Galweather9 episodes
2012 Once Upon a Time King Leopold2 episodes
Fire with Fire Harold GetherTelevision Movie
The Mindy Project DoctorEpisode: "Pilot"
2012 NCIS Harper Dearing3 episodes
2013 Bones Professor Leon WattersEpisode: "The Spark in the Park"
2014 Murder in the First David Hertzberg10 episodes
Key and Peele AmbassadorEpisode: "Sex Addict Wendell"
2014–2015 Manhattan Occam9 episodes
2015 Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Dean FairchildEpisode: "Auditions"
2015–2017 Rogue Marty Stein22 episodes
2015–2019 Ballers Brett Anderson26 episodes
The Affair Jon Gottlief12 episodes
2016 The Grinder Gordon Stutz2 episodes
Mom RobertEpisode: "Pure Evil and a Free Piece of Cheesecake"
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Detective Zimmerfield5 episodes
2017 When We Rise Judge Vaughn Walker 2 episodes
Chicago Justice Frank LindenEpisode: "Tycoon"
Jean-Claude Van Johnson Alan Morris2 episodes
2017–present The Good Doctor Dr. Aaron Glassman
2018 Castle Rock Warden Porter's Superior (voice)Episode: "Harvest"
2018–2019 Counterpart Roland Fancher7 episodes
2020 Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Dr. HirschTelevision film
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote Toby ZieglerTelevision special
2022 Super Pumped Randall PearsonEpisodes: "Grow or Die" and "War"

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2022 God of War Ragnarök Odin Facial, motion capture & voice acting

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