Liev Schreiber
Biography
Isaac Liev Schreiber (/ˈliːɛv ˈʃraɪbər/ LEE-ev SHRY-bər; born October 4, 1967) is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award and nominations for nine Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. Schreiber's early film roles include Mixed Nuts (1994), Party Girl (1995), The Daytrippers (1996), and Big Night (1996). He appeared in the first three Scream horror films (1996–2000), Ransom (1996), The Hurricane (1999), Hamlet (2000), Kate & Leopold (2001), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Painted Veil (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Spotlight (2015). He acted in the Wes Anderson films Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). He made his directorial film debut with Everything Is Illuminated (2005). He made his Broadway debut in In the Summer House (1992). He earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing Richard Roma in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross (2005). He was Tony-nominated for his roles in the Eric Bogosian play Talk Radio (2007), the Arthur Miller revival A View from the Bridge (2010) and the John Patrick Shanley revival Doubt (2024). He also acted in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016). For his television roles, he most notably portrayed the titular character in the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan (2013–2020). He reprised the role in the television film Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022). The role has earned him nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. He also portrayed Orson Welles in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999) and Otto Frank in the Nat Geo miniseries A Small Light (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Liev Schreiber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Self - Narrator
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Narrator
Battle of the X-Planes
Victor Creed
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Dr. Ted Fielding
Sphere
Self - Narrator (voice)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Robert Thorn
The Omen
Mischa
Jakob the Liar
Clark Barnes
Ransom
Laertes
Hamlet
Sam Chaiton
The Hurricane
Cotton Weary
Scream
Cotton Weary
Scream 3
John Clark
The Sum of All Fears
Stuart Besser
Kate & Leopold
Lotario Thurgot
Love in the Time of Cholera
Chris
Mixed Nuts
Frank
Repo Men
Narrator (voice)
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
Jeff Willis
Twilight
Theodore Winter
Salt
Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
Phantoms
Narrator
Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry
Ray Johnson
The Ten
Marty Kantrowitz
A Walk on the Moon
Zus Bielski
Defiance
William Kunstler (voice)
Chicago 10
Nigel
Party Girl
Charlie Townsend
The Painted Veil
Narrator (voice)
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
Self - Narrator (voice)
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
Mickey Moonday (voice)
Desert Blue
Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
The Manchurian Candidate
Self - Narrator
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Bash Narrator (voice)
Don't Look Up
Ned
Every Day
narrator
Living with Wolves
Jerry Heckerman
Denise Calls Up
Salesman
Mad Love
Self
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Leo
Big Night
Carl Petrovic
The Daytrippers
Orson Welles
RKO 281
Paul
Spring Forward
Narrator (voice)
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
Ebb
The Guns of Christmas Past
Himself - Narrator
Decoding Nazi Secrets
Self - Narrator (voice)
Iron and Beyond
Self
Operation Filmmaker
Glenn
His and Hers
Ross Rhea
Goon
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Oil Storm
Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
Movie 43
Joe Shumate
Spinning Boris
Ogden
Buffalo Girls
Himself-Narrator
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
Trevor Blundell
Mental
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Butler
Ulysses Ford
Lackawanna Blues
Himself - Narrator (US version)
Space Dive
Ricky Gregg
The Sunshine Boys
Narrator
The New Medicine
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Babe Ruth
Vincent Campbell
The Last Days on Mars
Self (Narrator)
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
Narrator (voice)
Fatal Flood
Dovi
Fading Gigolo
Narrator (voice)
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
James
A Perfect Man
Boris Spassky
Pawn Sacrifice
Wilma
Taking Woodstock
Narrator
Runnin' Rebels of UNLV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sports on the Silver Screen
The Living Weapon
Cotton Weary
Scream 2
Henry Kissinger
Golda
Narrator
The Defector
Self (archive footage)
Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
The 5th Wave
Marty Baron
Spotlight
Narrator
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
Andrew
Walking and Talking
The Conspiracy
Ross Rhea
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Self
Meeting Zelenskyy
Narrator (voice)
Unity
Himself - Narrator
America: The Story of Us
Chuck Wepner
Chuck
Portraits in Dramatic Time
The Storm King (voice)
My Little Pony: The Movie
Isaac Babel (voice)
Finding Babel
Baggage
Ed
Caught Stealing
Spots (voice)
Isle of Dogs
HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
Creed
Narrator
Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
Self
Weapon X Mutant Files
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies
Narrator
Spirit of the Games
Wilson Fisk (voice)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
(narrator)
Broad Street Bullies
Roland Pollard
A Rainy Day in New York
Narrator (voice)
Kareem: Minority of One
Self
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
Self - Host
Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open
Self
The Pulitzer At 100
Tibor (uncredited)
Clear History
Sigmund Freud (Voice)
Young Dr. Freud
Fred Linderhoff
Since You've Been Gone
Narrator
Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
Narrator
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Narrator
Thrilla in Manila
Narrator
Barbaro
Narrator
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
Narrator
Two Billion Hearts
Narrator
Ted Williams
Narrator
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
Narrator
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
Narrator (voice)
:03 from Gold
Drew Hagel
Human Capital
Narrator
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Bobby Lincoln
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Narrator (voice)
A Brilliant Madness
Narrator
The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships
Narrator
Ulysses S. Grant
Narrator
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
Narrator
Shot Heard 'Round the World
Talk Show Host
The French Dispatch
Self
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
Self - Narrator (voice)
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship
Narrator
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
Narrator
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
Narrator (voice)
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
The Shakespeare Sessions
Owens
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Colonel Richard Cantwell
Across the River and Into the Trees
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
Narrator (voice)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Ray Donovan
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Narrator
Mr. Miami Beach
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
J.J. Kellogg
Asteroid City
Narrator
Sputnik Mania
Narrator
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Broadway’s Leading Men: A Musical Celebration
Self
Undisputed
Narrator (voice)
When It Was a Game 3
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
147
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-10-04
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
Isaac Liev Schreiber