Portrait of Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Acting

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.

Born: October 4, 1967

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Filmography

2025
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

as Sam Fisher (voice)

2025
2025
The Last Twins

as Narrator

2024
Undisputed

as Self

2024
The Perfect Couple

as Tag Winbury

2024
Violent Earth

as Self - Host

2023
Across the River and into the Trees

as Colonel Richard Cantwell

2023
Golda

as Henry Kissinger

2023
Command Z

as Kohlberg Pryce

2023
Asteroid City

as J.J. Kellogg

2023
A Small Light

as Otto Frank

2022
2021
Don't Look Up

as Bash Narrator (voice)

2021
Hard Knocks: In Season

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021
The French Dispatch

as Talk Show Host

2020
Human Capital

as Drew Hagel

2019
2019
A Rainy Day in New York

as Roland Pollard

2019
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)

2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

as Wilson Fisk (voice)

2018
Civilisations

as Narrator

2018
Isle of Dogs

as Spots (voice)

2017
My Little Pony: The Movie

as The Storm King (voice)

2017
America in Color

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2017
Chuck

as Chuck Wepner

2016
The 5th Wave

as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch

2015
Creed

as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)

2015
Spotlight

as Marty Baron

2015
Kareem: Minority of One

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015
Finding Babel

as Isaac Babel (voice)

2015
Pawn Sacrifice

as Boris Spassky

2015
Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2014
BoJack Horseman

as Copernicus (Voice)

2014
Clear History

as Tibor (uncredited)

2013
Rick and Morty

as Fear Hole Demon (voice)

2013
2013
2013
2013
The Butler

as Lyndon B. Johnson

2013
The Last Days on Mars

as Vincent Campbell

2013
Drunk History

as Victor Lustig

2013
Ray Donovan

as Ray Donovan

2013
2013
Movie 43

as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")

2012
Mental

as Trevor Blundell

2012
Goon

as Ross Rhea

2011
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2010
America: The Story of Us

as Himself - Narrator

2010
Salt

as Theodore Winter

2010
2010
America: The Story of Us

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2010
Repo Men

as Frank

2010
Every Day

as Ned

2009
2009
Ted Williams

as Narrator

2009
2008
Defiance

as Zus Bielski

2008
2008
The Defector

as Narrator

2008
Barbaro

as Narrator

2008
Chicago 10

as William Kunstler (voice)

2008
The Jewish Americans

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2007
Love in the Time of Cholera

as Lotario Thurgot

2007
The Ten

as Ray Johnson

2007
Sputnik Mania

as Narrator

2007
2006
The Painted Veil

as Charlie Townsend

2006
The Omen

as Robert Thorn

2006
The New Medicine

as Narrator

2005
Oil Storm

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

2005
2005
Robot Chicken

as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)

2005
Lackawanna Blues

as Ulysses Ford

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
Hitler: The Rise of Evil

as Ernst Hanfstaengl

2003
NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet

as Self - Narrator(voice)

2002
Young Dr. Freud

as Sigmund Freud (Voice)

2002
Iron and Beyond

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2002
:03 from Gold

as Narrator (voice)

2002
2002
A Brilliant Madness

as Narrator (voice)

2002
Ulysses S. Grant

as Narrator

2002
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2001
Kate & Leopold

as Stuart Besser

2001
Hard Knocks

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2001
Fatal Flood

as Narrator (voice)

2000
2000
2000
2000
Hamlet

as Laertes

2000
RKO 281

as Orson Welles

2000
Scream 3

as Cotton Weary

1999
The Hurricane

as Sam Chaiton

1999
1999
Desert Blue

as Mickey Moonday (voice)

1999
1999
A Walk on the Moon

as Marty Kantrowitz

1998
Babe Ruth

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1998
Since You've Been Gone

as Fred Linderhoff

1998
Twilight

as Jeff Willis

1998
Surviving the Dust Bowl

as Narrator (voice)

1998
Sphere

as Dr. Ted Fielding

1998
Mr. Miami Beach

as Narrator

1998
Phantoms

as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle

1997
Scream 2

as Cotton Weary

1997
The View

as Self

1997
Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1997
The Daytrippers

as Carl Petrovic

1997
His and Hers

as Glenn

1996
Scream

as Cotton Weary

1996
Ransom

as Clark Barnes

1996
Big Night

as Leo

1996
The Sunshine Boys

as Ricky Gregg

1996
1996
The Daily Show

as Self, Bank Manager

1996
1996
1995
Party Girl

as Nigel

1995
Mad Love

as Salesman

1995
Denise Calls Up

as Jerry Heckerman

1995
1995
1994
Mixed Nuts

as Chris

1989
The Simpsons

as "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)

1988
American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

1982
Nature

as Narrator (voice)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1974
1974
NOVA

as Narrator (voice)