Richard Schiff was born on May 27,1955 and is an American actor and director.
43 Facts About Richard Schiff
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Richard Schiff is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award.
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Richard Schiff is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World.
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Richard Schiff had a recurring role on the HBO series Ballers.
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Richard Schiff was born on May 27,1955, in Bethesda, Maryland, and was raised in New York City.
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Richard Schiff is the second of three sons of Charlotte, a television and publishing executive, and Edward Schiff, a real estate lawyer.
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Richard Schiff's brothers are producer Paul Schiff and talent manager David Schiff.
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Richard Schiff's parents divorced, and Charlotte later married Clarence B Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Richard Schiff's grandfather had alleged connections to the Jewish Mafia of New York.
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Richard Schiff directed several off-Broadway plays, including Antigone in 1983 with a just-graduated Angela Bassett.
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Richard Schiff was seen by Steven Spielberg in an episode of the TV drama High Incident and was cast in The Lost World: Jurassic Park 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.
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Richard Schiff became known for his reclusive and intense approach to his craft as well as his low-key delivery style.
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Richard Schiff portrayed a doctor alongside Eddie Murphy in the 1998 Dr Dolittle remake.
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Richard Schiff appeared in one episode of Becker during its first season.
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Richard Schiff 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.
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Richard Schiff appeared in Ray as Jerry Wexler, shaving his beard for the role.
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Richard Schiff had a cameo appearance as himself in the second-season finale of the series Entourage.
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Richard Schiff appeared again as a fictionalized version of himself in Entourage.
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Richard Schiff 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.
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Richard 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.
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Later that year Richard 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.
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Richard Schiff portrayed Charles Fischer in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the Season 2 episode "Complications".
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Richard Schiff was sent back in time to the present as a reward for his service to Skynet.
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Richard Schiff played an Orthodox rabbi on an episode of In Plain Sight with former West Wing co-star Mary McCormack.
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Richard Schiff appeared as a hypnotist in one episode of Monks seventh season.
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Richard Schiff had a recurring role in Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior as FBI Director Jack Fickler.
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Richard Schiff has guest-starred on Any Human Heart with Jim Broadbent playing the role of a psychiatrist and on White Collars second-season episode 15.
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Richard Schiff played the role of an ex-CIA agent in a terrorist organization in Johnny English Reborn.
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Richard 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.
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Richard Schiff was cast to star in the Showtime series House of Lies, starring Kristen Bell and Don Cheadle.
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Richard Schiff starred in the TV movie Innocent with Bill Pullman.
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Richard Schiff 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.
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Richard Schiff portrayed Erie Smith in a revival of the Eugene O'Neill play, Hughie, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, in February and March 2013, and Dr Emil Hamilton in Zack Snyder's 2013 Superman film, Man of Steel.
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In September 2014, Richard Schiff returned to the West End in a revival of Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet, co-starring Lindsay Lohan.
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In 2015, Richard Schiff appeared as Dwayne Johnson's character's boss on HBO's Ballers.
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Richard Schiff had a regular role on the TNT's crime drama Murder in the First as David Hertzberg.
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Richard Schiff provided the facial and motion capture, and voice for Odin in Santa Monica Studio's game God of War Ragnarok, released in 2022.
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Richard Schiff has supported Democratic candidates, but has said he is not a registered member of the party.
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Richard Schiff supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election.
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In 2016, Richard Schiff supported Senator Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries.
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Richard Schiff endorsed Cynthia Nixon's bid for Governor of New York in the 2018 election.
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On November 10,2020, Richard Schiff announced that he and his wife had tested positive for COVID-19 on Election Day and were quarantining at their home in Vancouver.
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On November 19,2020, Richard Schiff was released from the hospital.