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Liev Schreiber

Acting

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

Also known as Isaac 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Liev Schreiber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class · 2022
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actor in a Play · 2005
  • Tony Awards · 2005
  • Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Actor in a Play
  • Drama League Award
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  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2010 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2007 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Road to the NHL Winter Classic

as Narrator

Rick and Morty

2013as Fear Hole Demon (voice)

BoJack Horseman

2014as Copernicus (Voice)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018as Wilson Fisk (voice)

America: The Story of the US

2010as Self - Narrator (voice)

America: The Story of Us

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Cove

2009Thanks

The Simpsons

1989as "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)

A Small Light

2023as Otto Frank

Hard Knocks: Training Camp

2001as Self - Narrator (voice)

Nature

1982as Narrator (voice)

America in Color

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Isle of Dogs

2018as Spots (voice)

Spotlight

2015as Marty Baron

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games

1999as Narrator (voice)

Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals

2010as Narrator (voice)

Robot Chicken

2005as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000as Michael Keppler

Unity

2015as Narrator (voice)

Ray Donovan

2013as Ray Donovan

Creed

2015as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)

The Hurricane

1999as Sam Chaiton

Scream

1996as Cotton Weary

My Little Pony: The Movie

2017as The Storm King (voice)

The Butler

2013as Lyndon B. Johnson

The Painted Veil

2006as Charlie Townsend

Everything Is Illuminated

2005Director, Screenplay

Don't Look Up

2021as Bash Narrator (voice)

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

2003as Ernst Hanfstaengl

The French Dispatch

2021as Talk Show Host

The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti

2019as Narrator

Sputnik Mania

2007as Narrator

Shot Heard 'Round the World

2001as Narrator

City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal

1998as Himself-Narrator

Big Night

1996as Leo

NOVA

1974as Narrator (voice)

Violent Earth

as Self - Host

Caught Stealing

2025as Lipa

Across the River and Into the Trees

2022as Colonel Richard Cantwell

Hard Knocks: In Season

2021as Self - Narrator (voice)

Babe Ruth

1998as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Saturday Night Live

1975as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Ray Donovan: The Movie

2022as Ray Donovan

Drunk History

2013as Victor Lustig

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve

2013as Narrator (voice)

Defiance

2008as Zus Bielski

The Perfect Couple

2024as Tag Winbury

Pawn Sacrifice

2014as Boris Spassky

Love in the Time of Cholera

2007as Lotario Thurgot

Jakob the Liar

1999as Mischa