Name
Liev Schreiber
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1967-10-04 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
San 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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Caught Stealing
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- 1999 Meltdown at Three Mile Island as Self - Narrator
- 2003 Battle of the X-Planes as Narrator
- 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Victor Creed
- 1998 Sphere as Dr. Ted Fielding
- 2003 Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2006 The Omen as Robert Thorn
- 1999 Jakob the Liar as Mischa
- 1996 Ransom as Clark Barnes
- 2000 Hamlet as Laertes
- 1999 The Hurricane as Sam Chaiton
- 1996 Scream as Cotton Weary
- 2000 Scream 3 as Cotton Weary
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears as John Clark
- 2001 Kate & Leopold as Stuart Besser
- 2007 Love in the Time of Cholera as Lotario Thurgot
- 1994 Mixed Nuts as Chris
- 2010 Repo Men as Frank
- 2019 Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 Twilight as Jeff Willis
- 2010 Salt as Theodore Winter
- 1998 Phantoms as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
- 2007 Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry as Narrator
- 2007 The Ten as Ray Johnson
- 1999 A Walk on the Moon as Marty Kantrowitz
- 2008 Defiance as Zus Bielski
- 2008 Chicago 10 as William Kunstler (voice)
- 1995 Party Girl as Nigel
- 2006 The Painted Veil as Charlie Townsend
- 2010 Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1999 Desert Blue as Mickey Moonday (voice)
- 2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
- 2002 Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team as Self - Narrator
- 2021 Don't Look Up as Bash Narrator (voice)
- 2010 Every Day as Ned
- 2005 Living with Wolves as narrator
- 1995 Denise Calls Up as Jerry Heckerman
- 1995 Mad Love as Salesman
- 2011 Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective as Self
- 1996 Big Night as Leo
- 1997 The Daytrippers as Carl Petrovic
- 1999 RKO 281 as Orson Welles
- 2000 Spring Forward as Paul
- 2013 Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust as Narrator (voice)
- Soon The Guns of Christmas Past as Ebb
- 1999 Decoding Nazi Secrets as Himself - Narrator
- 2002 Iron and Beyond as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2008 Operation Filmmaker as Self
- 1997 His and Hers as Glenn
- 2012 Goon as Ross Rhea
- 2005 Oil Storm as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Movie 43 as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
- 2003 Spinning Boris as Joe Shumate
- 1995 Buffalo Girls as Ogden
- 1998 City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal as Himself-Narrator
- 2012 Mental as Trevor Blundell
- 2013 The Butler as Lyndon B. Johnson
- 2005 Lackawanna Blues as Ulysses Ford
- 1996 The Sunshine Boys as Ricky Gregg
- 2006 The New Medicine as Narrator
- 1998 Babe Ruth as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2013 The Last Days on Mars as Vincent Campbell
- 2007 Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush as Self (Narrator)
- 2001 Fatal Flood as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Fading Gigolo as Dovi
- 2013 Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 A Perfect Man as James
- 2015 Pawn Sacrifice as Boris Spassky
- 2009 Taking Woodstock as Vilma
- 2011 Runnin' Rebels of UNLV as Narrator
- 1997 Sports on the Silver Screen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007 The Living Weapon
- 1997 Scream 2 as Cotton Weary
- 2023 Golda as Henry Kissinger
- 2008 The Defector as Narrator
- 2016 The 5th Wave as Colonel Vosch
- 2015 Spotlight as Marty Baron
- 2009 Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times as Narrator
- 1996 Walking and Talking as Andrew
- 2022 The Conspiracy
- 2017 Goon: Last of the Enforcers as Ross Rhea
- 2023 Meeting Zelenskyy as Self
- 2015 Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 America: The Story of Us as Himself - Narrator
- 2017 Chuck as Chuck Wepner
- 2011 Portraits in Dramatic Time
- 2017 My Little Pony: The Movie as The Storm King (voice)
- 2016 Finding Babel as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
- 1997 Baggage
- 2025 Caught Stealing as Lipa
- 2018 Isle of Dogs as Spots (voice)
- 2015 Creed as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
- 2009 Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina as Narrator
- 2009 Weapon X Mutant Files as Self
- 2011 The Lost Kennedy Home Movies as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 1996 Spirit of the Games as Narrator
- 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Wilson Fisk (voice)
- 2010 Broad Street Bullies as (narrator)
- 2019 A Rainy Day in New York as Roland Pollard
- 2015 Kareem: Minority of One as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s as Self
- 2008 Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open as Self - Host
- 2017 The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
- 2013 Clear History as Tibor (uncredited)
- 2002 Young Dr. Freud as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
- 1998 Since You've Been Gone as Fred Linderhoff
- 2007 Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team as Narrator
- 2008 Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed as Narrator
- 2008 Thrilla in Manila as Narrator
- 2008 Barbaro as Narrator
- 2008 Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football as Narrator
- 1995 Two Billion Hearts as Narrator
- 2009 Ted Williams as Narrator
- 2011 McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice as Narrator
- 2018 Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes as Narrator
- 2002 :03 from Gold as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 Human Capital as Drew Hagel
- 2019 The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti as Narrator
- 2019 Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
- 2013 The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Bobby Lincoln
- 2002 A Brilliant Madness as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships as Narrator
- 2002 Ulysses S. Grant as Narrator
- 2002 American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) as Narrator
- 2001 Shot Heard 'Round the World as Narrator
- 2021 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Talk Show Host
- 2009 Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins as Self
- 2005 Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2000 Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible as Narrator
- 2011 The Curious Case of Curt Flood as Narrator
- 1999 Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 The Shakespeare Sessions
- 1994 Janek: The Silent Betrayal as Owens
- 2023 Across the River and into the Trees as Colonel Richard Cantwell
- 2012 Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
- 1998 Surviving the Dust Bowl as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 Ray Donovan: The Movie as Ray Donovan
- 1998 Mr. Miami Beach as Narrator
- 2021 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2023 Asteroid City as J.J. Kellogg
- 2007 Sputnik Mania as Narrator
- 2007 Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure as Narrator
- 2024 Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 2024 Undisputed as Self
- 2000 When It Was a Game 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 The Last Twins as Narrator
- 2002 Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies as Narrator
- 2003 NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet as Self - Narrator(voice)
- 2003 Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi
- 2025 They Fight with Cameras
- 2027 Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Wilson Fisk (voice)
- 2004 Secrets of the Dead: D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict as Narrator
- 2007 Raptor Force as Narrator
- 2005 Rebels on the Run: The Rise and Fall of UNLV Basketball as Narrator
- 2013 Ray Donovan ( 82 episodes ) as Ray Donovan
- 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 4 episodes ) as Michael Keppler
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode )
- 1974 NOVA ( 4 episodes )
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1982 Nature ( 1 episode ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 Secrets of the Dead ( 52 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 UConn: The March to Madness ( 1 episode )
- 2007 24/7 ( 64 episodes )
- 2024 The Perfect Couple ( 6 episodes ) as Tag Winbury
- 1974 NOVA ( 16 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2008 The Jewish Americans ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2010 America: The Story of Us ( 10 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil ( 2 episodes ) as Ernst Hanfstaengl
- 2017 America in Color ( 17 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 A Small Light ( 8 episodes ) as Otto Frank
- 1988 American Experience ( 8 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle ( 3 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 Robot Chicken ( 1 episode ) as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)
- 2014 BoJack Horseman ( 1 episode ) as Copernicus (Voice)
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self, Bank Manager
- 2013 Drunk History ( 1 episode ) as Victor Lustig
- 2021 Hard Knocks: In Season ( 43 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Rick and Morty ( 1 episode ) as Fear Hole Demon (voice)
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2001 Hard Knocks ( 91 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018 Civilisations ( 9 episodes ) as Narrator
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 2010 Road to the NHL Winter Classic ( 12 episodes ) as Narrator
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)
- 2024 Violent Earth ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2025 Splinter Cell: Deathwatch ( 8 episodes ) as Sam Fisher (voice)
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 Command Z ( 2 episodes ) as Kohlberg Pryce
- 2026 Nocturne ( 10 episodes ) as Jonah Lynn
- 2025 The American Revolution ( 6 episodes ) as Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
- 2026 Born to Bowl ( 5 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2001 Hard Knocks ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator
