Liev Schreiber

Acting • Born 1967-10-04

Acting4San 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Liev Schreiber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

195 credits

Meltdown at Three Mile Island

Movie • 1999

Self - Narrator

Battle of the X-Planes

Movie • 2003

Narrator

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Movie • 2009

Victor Creed

Sphere

Movie • 1998

Dr. Ted Fielding

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

Movie • 2003

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Omen

Movie • 2006

Robert Thorn

Jakob the Liar

Movie • 1999

Mischa

Ransom

Movie • 1996

Clark Barnes

Hamlet

Movie • 2000

Laertes

The Hurricane

Movie • 1999

Sam Chaiton

Scream

Movie • 1996

Cotton Weary

Scream 3

Movie • 2000

Cotton Weary

The Sum of All Fears

Movie • 2002

John Clark

Kate & Leopold

Movie • 2001

Stuart Besser

Love in the Time of Cholera

Movie • 2007

Lotario Thurgot

Mixed Nuts

Movie • 1994

Chris

Repo Men

Movie • 2010

Frank

Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season

Movie • 2019

Narrator (voice)

Twilight

Movie • 1998

Jeff Willis

Salt

Movie • 2010

Theodore Winter

Phantoms

Movie • 1998

Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle

Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry

Movie • 2007

Narrator

The Ten

Movie • 2007

Ray Johnson

A Walk on the Moon

Movie • 1999

Marty Kantrowitz

Defiance

Movie • 2008

Zus Bielski

Chicago 10

Movie • 2008

William Kunstler (voice)

Party Girl

Movie • 1995

Nigel

The Painted Veil

Movie • 2006

Charlie Townsend

Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals

Movie • 2010

Narrator (voice)

Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'

Movie • 2002

Self - Narrator (voice)

Desert Blue

Movie • 1999

Mickey Moonday (voice)

The Manchurian Candidate

Movie • 2004

Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)

Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team

Movie • 2002

Self - Narrator

Don't Look Up

Movie • 2021

Bash Narrator (voice)

Every Day

Movie • 2010

Ned

Living with Wolves

Movie • 2005

narrator

Denise Calls Up

Movie • 1995

Jerry Heckerman

Mad Love

Movie • 1995

Salesman

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

Movie • 2011

Self

Big Night

Movie • 1996

Leo

The Daytrippers

Movie • 1997

Carl Petrovic

RKO 281

Movie • 1999

Orson Welles

Spring Forward

Movie • 2000

Paul

Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust

Movie • 2013

Narrator (voice)

The Guns of Christmas Past

Movie

Ebb

Decoding Nazi Secrets

Movie • 1999

Himself - Narrator

Iron and Beyond

Movie • 2002

Self - Narrator (voice)

Operation Filmmaker

Movie • 2008

Self

His and Hers

Movie • 1997

Glenn

Goon

Movie • 2012

Ross Rhea

Oil Storm

Movie • 2005

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Movie 43

Movie • 2013

Robert (segment "Homeschooled")

Spinning Boris

Movie • 2003

Joe Shumate

Buffalo Girls

Movie • 1995

Ogden

City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal

Movie • 1998

Himself-Narrator

Mental

Movie • 2012

Trevor Blundell

The Butler

Movie • 2013

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lackawanna Blues

Movie • 2005

Ulysses Ford

The Sunshine Boys

Movie • 1996

Ricky Gregg

The New Medicine

Movie • 2006

Narrator

Babe Ruth

Movie • 1998

Himself - Narrator (voice)

The Last Days on Mars

Boris Spassky

Taking Woodstock

Movie • 2009

Vilma

Runnin' Rebels of UNLV

Movie • 2011

Narrator

Sports on the Silver Screen

Movie • 1997

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Living Weapon

Movie • 2007

Scream 2

Movie • 1997

Cotton Weary

Golda

Movie • 2023

Henry Kissinger

The Defector

Movie • 2008

Narrator

Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa

Movie • 2023

Self (archive footage)

The 5th Wave

Movie • 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch

Spotlight

Movie • 2015

Marty Baron

Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

Movie • 2009

Narrator

Walking and Talking

Movie • 1996

Andrew

The Conspiracy

Movie • 2022

Goon: Last of the Enforcers

Movie • 2017

Ross Rhea

Meeting Zelenskyy

Movie • 2023

Self

Unity

Movie • 2015

Narrator (voice)

America: The Story of Us

Movie • 2010

Himself - Narrator

Chuck

Movie • 2017

Chuck Wepner

Portraits in Dramatic Time

Movie • 2011

My Little Pony: The Movie

Movie • 2017

The Storm King (voice)

Finding Babel

Movie • 2016

Self - Isaac Babel (voice)

Baggage

Movie • 1997

Caught Stealing

Movie • 2025

Lipa

Isle of Dogs

Movie • 2018

Spots (voice)

Creed

Movie • 2015

HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)

Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina

Movie • 2009

Narrator

Weapon X Mutant Files

Movie • 2009

Self

The Lost Kennedy Home Movies

Movie • 2011

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Spirit of the Games

Movie • 1996

Narrator

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Movie • 2018

Wilson Fisk (voice)

Broad Street Bullies

Movie • 2010

(narrator)

A Rainy Day in New York

Movie • 2019

Roland Pollard

Kareem: Minority of One

Movie • 2015

Narrator (voice)

Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s

Movie • 2003

Self

Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open

Movie • 2008

Self - Host

The Pulitzer At 100

Movie • 2017

Self

Young Dr. Freud

Movie • 2002

Sigmund Freud (Voice)

Clear History

Movie • 2013

Tibor (uncredited)

Since You've Been Gone

Narrator (voice)

The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships

Movie • 1999

Narrator

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)

Narrator (voice)

The Shakespeare Sessions

Movie • 2003

Janek: The Silent Betrayal

Movie • 1994

Owens

Across the River and into the Trees

Movie • 2023

Colonel Richard Cantwell

Movie • 2024

Self

When It Was a Game 3

Movie • 2000

Narrator (voice)

The Last Twins

Movie • 2025

Narrator

BlackFox

Movie

Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies

Movie • 2002

Narrator

NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet

Movie • 2003

Self - Narrator(voice)

Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi

Movie • 2003

They Fight with Cameras

Movie • 2025

Ray Donovan

TV • 2013

Ray Donovan

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

TV • 2000

Michael Keppler

The View

TV • 1997

Self

The Daily Show

TV • 1996

Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

TV • 1992

NOVA

TV • 1974

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV • 1993

Self - Guest

Nature

TV • 1982

Narrator (voice)

Secrets of the Dead

TV • 2000

Narrator

UConn: The March to Madness

TV • 2017

24/7

TV • 2007

The Perfect Couple

TV • 2024

Tag Winbury

NOVA

TV • 1974

Narrator (voice)

The Jewish Americans

TV • 2008

Self - Narrator (voice)

America: The Story of Us

TV • 2010

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

TV • 2015

Self

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

TV • 2003

Ernst Hanfstaengl

America in Color

TV • 2017

Self - Narrator (voice)

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

TV • 2018

Self

A Small Light

TV • 2023

Otto Frank

American Experience

TV • 1988

Narrator (voice)

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

TV • 2013

Narrator (voice)

Drunk History

TV • 2013

Victor Lustig

BoJack Horseman

TV • 2014

Copernicus (Voice)

Robot Chicken

TV • 2005

Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)

The Daily Show

TV • 1996

Self, Bank Manager

Hard Knocks: In Season

TV • 2021

Self - Narrator (voice)

Rick and Morty

TV • 2013

Fear Hole Demon (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV • 2014

Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

TV • 2014

Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live

TV • 1975

Self - Host

Hard Knocks

TV • 2001

Self - Narrator (voice)

Civilisations

TV • 2018

Narrator

Saturday Night Live

TV • 1975

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Road to the NHL Winter Classic

TV • 2010

Narrator

The Simpsons

TV • 1989

"Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)

Violent Earth

TV • 2024

Self - Host

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

TV • 2025

Sam Fisher (voice)

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

TV • 2014

Self

Command Z

TV • 2023

Kohlberg Pryce

Parallax

Jonah Lynn

The American Revolution

TV • 2025

Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)

Born to Bowl

TV • 2026

Narrator (voice)