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Toby Ziegler

Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler
Toby Zachary Zielger - Communications Director

Personal

  • Toby is from Brighton Beach, New York.
  • He was born on 23rd December 1954.
  • He's Jewish and attends temple regularly on Delaware, where his rabbi is Rabbi Glassman.
  • His father, Julie, was a member of Murder Incorporated and spent much of Toby's childhood in prison.
  • His mother is dead.
  • His brother, David, was an astronaut. He contracted cancer and killed himself in 2005.
  • He has at least two sisters.
  • He's divorced from Congresswoman Andrea Wyatt.
  • He and Andi have twins, Molly & Huck, born the night of Zoey Bartlet's kidnapping on 7th May 2003 (which later became late June when season 5 aired as Huck's bris was performed on 4th July, eight days after he was born)

Professional & Education

  • Toby appears to have attended City College New York.
  • Until Bartlet won the presidency, Toby had never won an election.
  • He was the only member of Bartlet's original team who Leo didn't fire.
  • Toby was Jed's second choice for communications director. His first choice, David Rosen, turned the job down.
  • Toby's assistants are Bonnie & Ginger.

Misc

  • It was Toby who found the injured Josh as Rosslyn. Afterwards he spent weeks obsessing about ways to prosecute hate groups.
  • His draft number was 125, they called up to 90 that year.
  • Toby was arrested, along with Charlie, after stepping in to defend his ex-wife, Andrea Wyatt, from a drunken patron in a bar in California.
  • He's a Yankees fan.
  • He once bought $5000 of internet stock which increased in value to $125,000 after an old friend testified in front of the Commerce Committee on the future of such stocks. To avoid any scandal, Toby's salary was reduced to $1 for a year and he cashed in his stock.
  • He smokes cigars and needs to eat pie to help him write.
  • Toby is opposed to organized prayer in schools.