Liev Schreiber
132 movies · 21 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 4, 1967 (age 59)
- Place of birth
- 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).
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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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Known for
Liev Schreiber: movies and TV shows
Acting (148)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Wilson Fisk (voice)
- Upcoming The Guns of Christmas Past
as Ebb
- 2026
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025 Caught Stealing
as Lipa
- 2025 The Last Twins
as Narrator
- 2024
- 2023 Across the River and into the Trees
as Colonel Richard Cantwell
- 2023 Golda
as Henry Kissinger
- 2023
- 2023 Asteroid City
as J.J. Kellogg
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022 Ray Donovan: The Movie
as Ray Donovan
- 2021 Don't Look Up
as Bash Narrator (voice)
- 2021 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Talk Show Host
- 2020 Human Capital
as Drew Hagel
- 2019 Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 A Rainy Day in New York
as Roland Pollard
- 2019 Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
- 2019 The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
as Narrator
- 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Wilson Fisk (voice)
- 2018 Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
as Narrator
- 2018
- 2018 Isle of Dogs
as Spots (voice)
- 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
- 2016 The 5th Wave
as Colonel Vosch
- 2015 Creed
as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Spotlight
as Marty Baron
- 2015 Kareem: Minority of One
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Pawn Sacrifice
as Boris Spassky
- 2015 Unity
as Narrator (voice)
- 2014
- 2013
- 2013 A Perfect Man
as James
- 2013
- 2013 Fading Gigolo
as Dovi
- 2013 Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 The Butler
as Lyndon B. Johnson
- 2013 The Last Days on Mars
as Vincent Campbell
- 2013 Clear History
as Tibor (uncredited)
- 2013
- 2013 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Bobby Lincoln
- 2013 Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 Movie 43
as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
- 2012 Mental
as Trevor Blundell
- 2012
- 2012 Goon
as Ross Rhea
- 2011 The Curious Case of Curt Flood
as Narrator
- 2011
- 2011 McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
as Narrator
- 2011 Runnin' Rebels of UNLV
as Narrator
- 2010 Salt
as Theodore Winter
- 2010 Broad Street Bullies
as (narrator)
- 2010 Repo Men
as Frank
- 2010 Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 Every Day
as Ned
- 2009 Taking Woodstock
as Vilma
- 2009 Ted Williams
as Narrator
- 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine
as Victor Creed
- 2009 Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
as Narrator
- 2009 Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
as Narrator
- 2008 Defiance
as Zus Bielski
- 2008
- 2008 Thrilla in Manila
as Narrator
- 2008 The Defector
as Narrator
- 2008 Barbaro
as Narrator
- 2008 Chicago 10
as William Kunstler (voice)
- 2008 Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
as Narrator
- 2007 Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry
as Narrator
- 2007
- 2007 Love in the Time of Cholera
as Lotario Thurgot
- 2007 Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
as Narrator
- 2007 The Ten
as Ray Johnson
- 2007 Sputnik Mania
as Narrator
- 2007
- 2007 Raptor Force
as Narrator
- 2007
- 2006 The Painted Veil
as Charlie Townsend
- 2006 The Omen
as Robert Thorn
- 2006 The New Medicine
as Narrator
- 2005
- 2005 Living with Wolves
as narrator
- 2005
- 2005 Lackawanna Blues
as Ulysses Ford
- 2004
- 2004 The Manchurian Candidate
as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
- 2003 Spinning Boris
as Joe Shumate
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 Battle of the X-Planes
as Narrator
- 2003
- 2002 Young Dr. Freud
as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
- 2002 :03 from Gold
as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears
as John Clark
- 2002 A Brilliant Madness
as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
as Narrator
- 2002 Ulysses S. Grant
as Narrator
- 2002 Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
as Narrator
- 2001 Kate & Leopold
as Stuart Besser
- 2001 Shot Heard 'Round the World
as Narrator
- 2001 Fatal Flood
as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 Spring Forward
as Paul
- 2000
- 2000 Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
as Narrator
- 2000 When It Was a Game 3
as Narrator (voice)
- 2000
- 2000 Hamlet
as Laertes
- 2000 Scream 3
as Cotton Weary
- 1999 RKO 281
as Orson Welles
- 1999 The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships
as Narrator
- 1999 The Hurricane
as Sam Chaiton
- 1999 Jakob the Liar
as Mischa
- 1999 Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 Desert Blue
as Mickey Moonday (voice)
- 1999 A Walk on the Moon
as Marty Kantrowitz
- 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 Daytrippers
as Carl Petrovic
- 1997 His and Hers
as Glenn
- 1997
- 1996 Scream
as Cotton Weary
- 1996 Ransom
as Clark Barnes
- 1996 Big Night
as Leo
- 1996 The Sunshine Boys
as Ricky Gregg
- 1996 Walking and Talking
as Andrew
- 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
- 1989
- 1988
- 1982
- 1974
Behind the camera (12)
- Upcoming
- 2025 Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
Executive Producer
- 2023 Meeting Zelenskyy
Director
- 2023 Rule of Two Walls
Executive Producer
- 2022 Ukrainians in Exile
Executive Producer
- 2022 Ray Donovan: The Movie
Writer, Executive Producer
- 2020 Human Capital
Producer
- 2017 Chuck
Screenplay, Producer
- 2013
- 2009 The Cove
Thanks
- 2005 Everything Is Illuminated
Director, Screenplay
- 2000 Spring Forward
Associate Producer
Talk shows and appearances (45)
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024 Violent Earth
5 episodes
- 2021 Hard Knocks: In Season
43 episodes
- 2021
- 2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
1 episode
- 2017
- 2017 America in Color
17 episodes
- 2017 UConn: The March to Madness
1 episode
- 2016
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2 episodes
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
2 episodes
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2013 Drunk History
1 episode
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010 Road to the NHL Winter Classic
12 episodes
- 2010
- 2010 America: The Story of Us
10 episodes
- 2009
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008 The Jewish Americans
3 episodes
- 2007
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001 Hard Knocks
92 episodes
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998
- 1998
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1997
- 1996 The Daily Show
3 episodes
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
3 episodes
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
3 episodes