The Biggest Movies and TV Coming in September

See which big screen releases you can watch from the comfort of your couch.

Theatrical Releases Coming to Streaming

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Richard was born in Bethesda, Maryland, 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. He dropped out of high school and switched to night school because he could finish sooner with less work. He studied at the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1973. "In college when I tripped and fell over the drama program at the City College of New York, and went and got into the Professional Acting Training Program by fluke, and Earle Gister, who was, uh, had just come from Carnegie-Melon, and was on his way to the Yale School of Drama stopped for a little pit stop at the City College of New York for three years to run the Davis Center for Performing Arts. I was very lucky that he was there." After not bothering to show up for finals though, he headed to Colorado where he cut firewood and lived a hippie life. He returned to New York in 1975 and started studying acting at CCNY and eventually was accepted into their theater program. He initially disliked acting and studied to be a director. He directed several off-Broadway plays, including "Antigone" with a then just-graduated Angela Bassett in 1983. He also met present wife, Sheila Kelley, during auditions for this play. The two married in 1996. In the mid-1980s, Richard says he conquered his fears and decided to take a stab at acting. He got several TV roles, but he was seen by Steven Spielberg in an episode of the TV drama High Incident (1996). Spielberg then cast him in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and his career has been on an upward climb ever since that has led to his co-starring role in The West Wing (1999).

Played different characters in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0118254/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Ally McBeal (1997)</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0118437/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Practice (1997)</a>, two shows that are
set in the same universe.

Received an alumni association award from his alma mater, the
City College of New York, for outstanding post-graduate achievement. (2000)

Schiff and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0445992/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Sheila Kelley</a> have a son, Gus.

Trivia

Richard Schiff

Contribute to this page

More from this person

More to explore

Recently viewed