Richard Schiff is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing. Since September 2017 he has had a leading role in ABC’s medical drama The Good Doctor, as Dr. Aaron Glassman. Schiff is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World.
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Richard Schiff is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing. Schiff is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World. 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. Schiff was born on May 27, 1955, in Bethesda, Maryland, and was raised in New York City. Schiff and his family are Jewish. His grandfather had alleged connections to the Jewish Mafia of New York. 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. In 1995, Schiff portrayed a lawyer in Se7en.
In 1996, he guest starred on the TV series ER, and appeared in NYPD Blue the following year. In February 2007, he appeared in the West End production of Underneath the Lintel in the Duchess Theatre in London, England, and appeared on BBC Radio Five Live. In 2007, Schiff appeared as Philip in the season finale of Burn Notice, performed by BBC Radio 4. A radio version of Under underneath the L Intel, was performed by Cowen Cowen 4 on January 5, 2008. Schiff starred in Princeton Theatre Center’s Talford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly in the fall of 2008. He was a collaborator of Talyn Skynet and a traitor to the resistance in the Season 2 episode of The Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. Schiff portrayed Charles Fischer in The Terminator. He also appeared in last season’s finale of Eli Stone: Another Harvest Moon Thompson and Harvest Moon Moon Thompson with Ernest Borgnine.
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