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Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Acting · Production · Crew · Directing

Born October 4, 1967, San Francisco, California, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (40)
  • 2024Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration — Self
  • 2024Undisputed — Self
  • Violent Earth — Self - Host
  • 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
  • Hard Knocks: In Season — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Firing Line with Margaret Hoover — Self
  • America in Color — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2017The Pulitzer At 100 — Self
  • 2016Finding Babel — Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
  • 2011Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective — Self
  • 2011The Lost Kennedy Home Movies — Himself - Narrator (voice)
  • 2010America: The Story of Us — Himself - Narrator
  • America: The Story of Us — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2009Weapon X Mutant Files — Self
  • 2009Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins — Self
  • 2008Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open — Self - Host
  • 2008Operation Filmmaker — Self
  • The Jewish Americans — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2007Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush — Self (Narrator)
  • 2005Oil Storm — Himself - Narrator (voice)
  • 2005Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2005Seamless — Self
  • 2003Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2003NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet — Self - Narrator(voice)
  • 2003Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s — Self
  • 2002Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team — Self - Narrator
  • 2002Iron and Beyond — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2002Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Hard Knocks — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 1999Decoding Nazi Secrets — Himself - Narrator
  • 1999Meltdown at Three Mile Island — Self - Narrator
  • 1998Babe Ruth — Himself - Narrator (voice)
  • 1997Sports on the Silver Screen — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • The View — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)