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Richard Schiff is an Emmy Award-winning actor whose work spans film, television, theatre and performance capture. Two of his most internationally recognized roles are White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler in Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing, and Dr. Aaron Glassman in ABC’s The Good Doctor, but he is equally well known for his work in feature films, theatre productions globally and his humanitarian work. Schiff won the 2000 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for The West Wing, with further nominations in 2001 and 2002, and shared the cast’s Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2001 and 2002. He stayed with the series through its final season in 2006, directing as well as starring. His seven seasons as Glassman opposite Freddie Highmore on The Good Doctor concluded in 2024 and brought a 2019 Critics Choice nomination. On film, Schiff played equipment specialist Eddie Carr in Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, record producer Jerry Wexler in Taylor Hackford’s Ray, Dr. Emil Hamilton in Man of Steel, and death-row attorney Marty Lumetta in Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency, winner of the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Further credits include Malcolm X, Se7en, I Am Sam, Made in Dagenham, Kill the Messenger and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. His other television work includes Ballers, House of Lies, Counterpart, Super Pumped, Manhattan and The Affair. Schiff came to acting through the theatre. After graduating from City College of New York, he founded Manhattan Repertory Theatre as its Artistic Director and directed Off-Broadway, including Antigone with Angela Bassett, before performing himself. Stage work began in NY with the Off-Broadway hit Talking Minks and led to work with Tim Robbins’ Actors’ Gang in Los Angeles and other plays that brought him an Ovation Award for Urban Folktales and a Drama-Logue Award for Goose and Tomtom. He made his Broadway debut in the 2012 revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross opposite Al Pacino, and has led Eugene O'Neill’s Hughie at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly at the McCarter, and The Chosen at Barrington Stage Company. London has become a second home with his solo turn in Underneath the Lintel at the Duchess Theatre, Smash! at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow in the West End. His 2025 performance as Tati in Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop earned an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play. In Spring 2026, he returned to London as Niels Bohr in Michael Longhurst’s revival of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen at Hampstead Theatre, the play’s first London staging since 1998, opposite Alex Kingston and Damien Molony. Schiff performed and voiced Odin in God of War Ragnarök, has directed episodes of The West Wing and In Treatment, and executive produced the documentary Public Defender. He sits on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World and The Creative Coalition. On screen, he joins The Roman, Netflix’s Las Vegas casino drama from Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Oscar Isaac. He also will portray Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Paramount+’s The Best of Us, the limited series starring Jeremy Strong. He also shot the pilot for Public Interest, starring opposite Patricia Heaton, directed by David Barrett.