Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 4, 1967
Place of Birth:
San Francisco, California, USA
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Perfect Couple | Tag Winbury |
| 2024 | Violent Earth | Self - Host |
| 2023 | A Small Light | Otto Frank |
| 2023 | Command Z | Kohlberg Pryce |
| 2021 | Hard Knocks: In Season | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | Self |
| 2018 | Civilisations | Narrator |
| 2017 | UConn: The March to Madness | |
| 2017 | America in Color | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | BoJack Horseman | Copernicus (Voice) |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Ray Donovan |
| 2013 | Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Drunk History | Victor Lustig |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | Fear Hole Demon (voice) |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | 24/7: Road to the NHL Winter Classic | Narrator |
| 2010 | Road to the NHL Winter Classic | Narrator |
| 2008 | The Jewish Americans | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | 24/7 | |
| 2005 | Robot Chicken | Iron Man / King Triton (Voice) |
| 2003 | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Ernst Hanfstaengl |
| 2001 | Hard Knocks | Self - Narrator |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Michael Keppler |
| 2000 | Secrets of the Dead | Narrator |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self, Bank Manager |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator (voice) |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1974 | NOVA | |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator (voice) |
| Splinter Cell: Deathwatch | Sam Fisher (voice) | |
| Parallax | Jonah Lynn |