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