- Birthday
- 1955-05-27
- Place of Birth
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Richard Schiff
ActingBiography
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Born in Bethesda, Maryland, he is the middle of three sons of Edward, a real estate lawyer, and Charlotte, a cable TV and publishing executive. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he dropped out of high school, switching to night school before later studying at the City College of New York, though he did not graduate. After living for a time in Colorado, he returned to New York to study acting and began his caree...