Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff is an American actor born on May 27, 1955 in Bethesda, Maryland. He is best known for his role as Toby Ziegler on The West Wing; This role brought him the Primetime Emmy award in 2000.
From theater to cinema
In his youth, he studied theater at City College in New York. He first entered the stage world as a director and staged several plays off-Broadway in the early 1980s. Then he turned to acting. In the mid-1990s, he appeared in small roles in films such as Speed โโand Se7en. Steven Spielberg cast him in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) after a performance on television.
Dr. this. Productions such as Dolittle and Deep Impact (1998), I Am Sam (2001) and Man of Steel (2013) followed.
Television career
He played White House communications director Toby Ziegler in The West Wing, which aired from 1999 to 2006. Following the Emmy in 2000, he was nominated in the same category in 2001 and 2002; The cast of the series also won Screen Actors Guild ensemble awards. He also directed an episode of the series. In the following years, he appeared in recurring roles on series such as NCIS, Ballers, and House of Lies.
Between 2017 and 2024, he starred as Dr. in ABC's The Good Doctor. He played Aaron Glassman. In 2022, he voiced the character Odin in the God of War Ragnarรถk game and acted with motion capture.
Schiff continued to return to the stage as well as film and television; In 2012, he starred in the play Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway.
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