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
2027
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Wilson Fisk (voice)
2026
- Born to Bowl as Narrator (voice)
2025
- Caught Stealing as Lipa
- The American Revolution as Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch as Sam Fisher (voice)
- The Last Twins as Narrator
- Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story ... (Executive Producer)
- They Fight with Cameras
2024
- The Perfect Couple as Tag Winbury
- Violent Earth as Self - Host
- Undisputed as Self
- Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration as Self
2023
- Asteroid City as J.J. Kellogg
- A Small Light as Otto Frank
- Command Z as Kohlberg Pryce
- Golda as Henry Kissinger
- Across the River and into the Trees as Colonel Richard Cantwell
- Rule of Two Walls ... (Executive Producer)
- Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa as Self (archive footage)
- Meeting Zelenskyy as Self
2022
- Ray Donovan: The Movie as Ray Donovan
- The Conspiracy
- Ukrainians in Exile ... (Executive Producer)
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
- Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
- Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season as Narrator (voice)
- A Rainy Day in New York as Roland Pollard
- The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti as Narrator
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)
- Chuck as Chuck Wepner
- Goon: Last of the Enforcers as Ross Rhea
- America in Color as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
- UConn: The March to Madness
2016
- The 5th Wave as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
- Finding Babel as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Creed as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
- Spotlight as Marty Baron
- Pawn Sacrifice as Boris Spassky
- Unity as Narrator (voice)
- Kareem: Minority of One as Narrator (voice)
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- BoJack Horseman as Copernicus (Voice)
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2013
- Rick and Morty as Fear Hole Demon (voice)
- Ray Donovan as Ray Donovan
- Drunk History as Victor Lustig
- Movie 43 as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
- The Butler as Lyndon B. Johnson
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Bobby Lincoln
- Fading Gigolo as Dovi
- The Last Days on Mars as Vincent Campbell
- Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle as Narrator (voice)
- Clear History as Tibor (uncredited)
- A Perfect Man as James
- Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve as Narrator (voice)
- Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Goon as Ross Rhea
- Mental as Trevor Blundell
- Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
2011
- Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective as Self
- Portraits in Dramatic Time
- The Curious Case of Curt Flood as Narrator
- McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice as Narrator
- The Lost Kennedy Home Movies as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Runnin' Rebels of UNLV as Narrator
2010
- Salt as Theodore Winter
- America: The Story of Us as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Repo Men as Frank
- Road to the NHL Winter Classic as Narrator
- Every Day as Ned
- Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals as Narrator (voice)
- America: The Story of Us as Himself - Narrator
- Broad Street Bullies as (narrator)
2009
- The Cove ... (Thanks)
- Taking Woodstock as Vilma
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Victor Creed
- Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins as Self
- Ted Williams as Narrator
- Weapon X Mutant Files as Self
- Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times as Narrator
- Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina as Narrator
2008
- Defiance as Zus Bielski
- The Jewish Americans as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Chicago 10 as William Kunstler (voice)
- Thrilla in Manila as Narrator
- Operation Filmmaker as Self
- Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed as Narrator
- Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football as Narrator
- Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open as Self - Host
- Barbaro as Narrator
- The Defector as Narrator
2007
- 24/7
- Love in the Time of Cholera as Lotario Thurgot
- The Ten as Ray Johnson
- Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure as Narrator
- Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team as Narrator
- Sputnik Mania as Narrator
- Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush as Self (Narrator)
- Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry as Narrator
- The Living Weapon
2006
- The Painted Veil as Charlie Townsend
- The Omen as Robert Thorn
- The New Medicine as Narrator
2005
- Robot Chicken as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)
- Everything Is Illuminated ... (Director)
- Lackawanna Blues as Ulysses Ford
- Oil Storm as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Living with Wolves as narrator
- Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
- The Manchurian Candidate as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
2003
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Ernst Hanfstaengl
- Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s as Self
- Spinning Boris as Joe Shumate
- The Shakespeare Sessions
- Battle of the X-Planes as Narrator
- NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet as Self - Narrator(voice)
- Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi
2002
- The Sum of All Fears as John Clark
- Iron and Beyond as Self - Narrator (voice)
- :03 from Gold as Narrator (voice)
- Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team as Self - Narrator
- A Brilliant Madness as Narrator (voice)
- American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) as Narrator
- Ulysses S. Grant as Narrator
- 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
- Scream 3 as Cotton Weary
- Secrets of the Dead as Narrator
- Hamlet as Laertes
- Spring Forward as Paul
- When It Was a Game 3 as Narrator (voice)
- Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible as Narrator
1999
- The Hurricane as Sam Chaiton
- Jakob the Liar as Mischa
- A Walk on the Moon as Marty Kantrowitz
- RKO 281 as Orson Welles
- Desert Blue as Mickey Moonday (voice)
- The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships as Narrator
- Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games as Narrator (voice)
- Decoding Nazi Secrets as Himself - Narrator
- Meltdown at Three Mile Island as Self - Narrator
1998
- Sphere as Dr. Ted Fielding
- Phantoms as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
- Twilight as Jeff Willis
- Since You've Been Gone as Fred Linderhoff
- Surviving the Dust Bowl as Narrator (voice)
- Mr. Miami Beach as Narrator
- Babe Ruth as Himself - 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
- Sports on the Silver Screen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- His and Hers as Glenn
- Baggage
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Scream as Cotton Weary
- Ransom as Clark Barnes
- Big Night as Leo
- Walking and Talking as Andrew
- The Sunshine Boys as Ricky Gregg
- Spirit of the Games as Narrator
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