Liev Schreiber
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-10-04 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
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).
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Acting
(2025)
Caught Stealing
as Lipa
(2024)
Undisputed
as Self
(2024)
(2023)
Asteroid City
as J.J. Kellogg
(2023)
Golda
as Henry Kissinger
(2023)
Across the River and Into the Trees
as Colonel Richard Cantwell
(2023)
Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Meeting Zelenskyy
as Self
(2022)
Ray Donovan: The Movie
as Ray Donovan
(2022)
(2021)
Don't Look Up
as Bash Narrator (voice)
(2021)
The French Dispatch
as Talk Show Host
(2021)
(2020)
Human Capital
as Drew Hagel
(2019)
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
(2019)
A Rainy Day in New York
as Roland Pollard
(2019)
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
as Narrator
(2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Wilson Fisk (voice)
(2018)
Isle of Dogs
as Spots (voice)
(2018)
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
as Narrator
(2017)
My Little Pony: The Movie
as The Storm King (voice)
(2017)
Chuck
as Chuck Wepner
(2017)
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
as Ross Rhea
(2017)
The Pulitzer At 100
as Self
(2016)
The 5th Wave
as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
(2015)
Creed
as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Spotlight
as Marty Baron
(2015)
Pawn Sacrifice
as Boris Spassky
(2015)
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Kareem: Minority of One
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Finding Babel
as Isaac Babel (voice)
(2014)
Clear History
as Tibor (uncredited)
(2013)
Movie 43
as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
(2013)
The Butler
as Lyndon B. Johnson
(2013)
The Last Days on Mars
as Vincent Campbell
(2013)
Fading Gigolo
as Dovi
(2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Bobby Lincoln
(2013)
A Perfect Man
as James
(2013)
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
Goon
as Ross Rhea
(2012)
Mental
as Trevor Blundell
(2012)
Space Dive
as Himself - Narrator (US version)
(2012)
(2011)
(2011)
(2011)
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
as Narrator
(2011)
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
(2011)
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
as Narrator
(2011)
Runnin' Rebels of UNLV
as Narrator
(2010)
Salt
as Theodore Winter
(2010)
Repo Men
as Frank
(2010)
Every Day
as Ned
(2010)
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
as Narrator (voice)
(2010)
America: The Story of Us
as Himself - Narrator
(2010)
Broad Street Bullies
as (narrator)
(2009)
Taking Woodstock
as Wilma
(2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
as Victor Creed
(2009)
Ted Williams
as Narrator
(2009)
Weapon X Mutant Files
as Self
(2009)
(2009)
Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
as Narrator
(2009)
(2008)
Defiance
as Zus Bielski
(2008)
Operation Filmmaker
as Self
(2008)
Chicago 10
as William Kunstler (voice)
(2008)
Barbaro
as Narrator
(2008)
Thrilla in Manila
as Narrator
(2008)
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
as Narrator
(2008)
(2008)
The Defector
as Narrator
(2008)
(2007)
Love in the Time of Cholera
as Lotario Thurgot
(2007)
The Ten
as Ray Johnson
(2007)
Sputnik Mania
as Narrator
(2007)
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
as Narrator
(2007)
(2007)
Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry
as Narrator
(2007)
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
as Self (Narrator)
(2007)
(2006)
The Omen
as Robert Thorn
(2006)
The Painted Veil
as Charlie Townsend
(2006)
The New Medicine
as Narrator
(2005)
Lackawanna Blues
as Ulysses Ford
(2005)
Oil Storm
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
(2005)
Living with Wolves
as narrator
(2005)
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Manchurian Candidate
as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
(2003)
Spinning Boris
as Joe Shumate
(2003)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
Battle of the X-Planes
as Narrator
(2002)
The Sum of All Fears
as John Clark
(2002)
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Iron and Beyond
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2002)
:03 from Gold
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
Young Dr. Freud
as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
(2002)
A Brilliant Madness
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
(2002)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
as Self - Narrator
(2002)
Ulysses S. Grant
as Narrator
(2001)
Kate & Leopold
as Stuart Besser
(2001)
Fatal Flood
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Shot Heard 'Round the World
as Narrator
(2000)
Scream 3
as Cotton Weary
(2000)
Hamlet
as Laertes
(2000)
RKO 281
as Orson Welles
(2000)
When It Was a Game 3
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
as Narrator
(2000)
Spring Forward
as Paul
(1999)
The Hurricane
as Sam Chaiton
(1999)
Jakob the Liar
as Mischa
(1999)
A Walk on the Moon
as Marty Kantrowitz
(1999)
Desert Blue
as Mickey Moonday (voice)
(1999)
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
as Narrator (voice)
(1999)
Decoding Nazi Secrets
as Himself - Narrator
(1999)
The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships
as Narrator
(1999)
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
as Self - Narrator
(1998)
Sphere
as Dr. Ted Fielding
(1998)
Phantoms
as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
(1998)
Twilight
as Jeff Willis
(1998)
Since You've Been Gone
as Fred Linderhoff
(1998)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
Mr. Miami Beach
as Narrator
(1998)
Babe Ruth
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
(1998)
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
as Himself-Narrator
(1997)
Scream 2
as Cotton Weary
(1997)
The Daytrippers
as Carl Petrovic
(1997)
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1997)
His and Hers
as Glenn
(1997)
(1996)
Scream
as Cotton Weary
(1996)
Ransom
as Clark Barnes
(1996)
Big Night
as Leo
(1996)
Walking and Talking
as Andrew
(1996)
The Sunshine Boys
as Ricky Gregg
(1996)
Spirit of the Games
as Narrator
(1995)
Party Girl
as Nigel
(1995)
Mad Love
as Salesman
(1995)
Denise Calls Up
as Jerry Heckerman
(1995)
Buffalo Girls
as Ogden
(1995)
Two Billion Hearts
as Narrator
(1994)
Mixed Nuts
as Chris
(1994)
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
as Owens
Crew
(2023)
Meeting Zelenskyy
Director
(2023)
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
Executive Producer
(2023)
Rule of Two Walls
Executive Producer
(2022)
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Writer, Executive Producer
(2022)
Ukrainians in Exile
Executive Producer
(2020)
Human Capital
Producer
(2017)
Chuck
Screenplay, Producer
(2009)
The Cove
Thanks
(2005)
Everything Is Illuminated
Director, Screenplay
(2000)
Spring Forward
Associate Producer