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Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Acting1967San Francisco, California, USA

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).

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Acting History

2025
The American Revolution
TVas Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)4 eps
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
TVas Sam Fisher (voice)
2024
The Perfect Couple
TVas Tag Winbury6 eps
2023
Asteroid City
as J.J. Kellogg
Across the River and into the Trees
as Colonel Richard Cantwell
Golda
as Henry Kissinger
A Small Light
TVas Otto Frank8 eps
Command Z
TVas Kohlberg Pryce2 eps
Rick and Morty
TVas Fear Hole Demon (voice)1 eps
2022
2020
Human Capital
as Drew Hagel
2019
A Rainy Day in New York
as Roland Pollard
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
The Simpsons
TVas "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)1 eps
2017
My Little Pony: The Movie
as The Storm King (voice)
Chuck
as Chuck Wepner
Chuck
Producer
Chuck
Screenplay
2016
The 5th Wave
as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
Finding Babel
as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
Drunk History
TVas Victor Lustig1 eps
2015
Pawn Sacrifice
as Boris Spassky
Spotlight
as Marty Baron
Creed
as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
Kareem: Minority of One
as Narrator (voice)
BoJack Horseman
TVas Copernicus (Voice)1 eps
2014
Clear History
as Tibor (uncredited)
Ray Donovan
TVDirector2 eps
2013
The Butler
as Lyndon B. Johnson
The Last Days on Mars
as Vincent Campbell
Movie 43
as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
TVas Narrator (voice)3 eps
Ray Donovan
TVas Ray Donovan82 eps
2012
Mental
as Trevor Blundell
Goon
as Ross Rhea
Robot Chicken
TVas Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)1 eps
2010
Every Day
as Ned
Repo Men
as Frank
Salt
as Theodore Winter
America: The Story of Us
as Himself - Narrator
Road to the NHL Winter Classic
TVas Narrator12 eps
America: The Story of Us
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
The Omen
as Robert Thorn
The Painted Veil
as Charlie Townsend
The New Medicine
as Narrator
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
2002
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Iron and Beyond
as Self - Narrator (voice)
:03 from Gold
as Narrator (voice)
Young Dr. Freud
as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
A Brilliant Madness
as Narrator (voice)
Ulysses S. Grant
as Narrator
Hard Knocks
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)91 eps
2001
2000
Scream 3
as Cotton Weary
Hamlet
as Laertes
When It Was a Game 3
as Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Dead
TVas Narrator
Spring Forward
Associate Producer
1999
RKO 281
as Orson Welles
The Hurricane
as Sam Chaiton
Decoding Nazi Secrets
as Himself - Narrator
Desert Blue
as Mickey Moonday (voice)
A Walk on the Moon
as Marty Kantrowitz
1998
Twilight
as Jeff Willis
Sphere
as Dr. Ted Fielding
Since You've Been Gone
as Fred Linderhoff
Phantoms
as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
Babe Ruth
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Narrator (voice)
Mr. Miami Beach
as Narrator
1997
His and Hers
as Glenn
The Daytrippers
as Carl Petrovic
Scream 2
as Cotton Weary
The View
TVas Self
American Experience
TVas Narrator (voice)8 eps
1996
Ransom
as Clark Barnes
The Sunshine Boys
as Ricky Gregg
Scream
as Cotton Weary
Big Night
as Leo
The Daily Show
TVas Self / Self, Bank Manager
1995
Party Girl
as Nigel
Mad Love
as Salesman
Denise Calls Up
as Jerry Heckerman
1993
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Cameo (uncredited) / Self - Host
1974
NOVA
TVas Narrator (voice)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/4/1967(58 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA