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

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

Self

The Daily Show

Self, Bank Manager

NOVA

Narrator (voice)

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Caught Stealing	Lipa
2025	The Last Twins	Narrator
2024	Broadway’s Leading Men: A Musical Celebration
2024	Undisputed	Self
2023	Golda	Henry Kissinger
2023	Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa	Self (archive footage)
2023	Meeting Zelenskyy	Self
2023	Across the River and Into the Trees	Colonel Richard Cantwell
2023	Asteroid City	J.J. Kellogg
2022	The Conspiracy
2022	Ray Donovan: The Movie	Ray Donovan
2021	Don't Look Up	Bash Narrator (voice)
2021	The French Dispatch	Talk Show Host
2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Self
2020	Human Capital	Drew Hagel
2019	Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season	Narrator (voice)
2019	A Rainy Day in New York	Roland Pollard
2019	The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti	Narrator
2019	Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People	Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
2018	Isle of Dogs	Spots (voice)
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Wilson Fisk (voice)
2018	Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes	Narrator
2017	Goon: Last of the Enforcers	Ross Rhea
2017	Chuck	Chuck Wepner
2017	My Little Pony: The Movie	The Storm King (voice)
2017	The Pulitzer At 100	Self
2016	The 5th Wave	Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
2015	Pawn Sacrifice	Boris Spassky
2015	Spotlight	Marty Baron
2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)
2015	Finding Babel	Isaac Babel (voice)
2015	Creed	HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
2015	Kareem: Minority of One	Narrator (voice)
2014	Clear History	Tibor (uncredited)
2013	Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust	Narrator (voice)
2013	Movie 43	Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
2013	The Butler	Lyndon B. Johnson
2013	The Last Days on Mars	Vincent Campbell
2013	Fading Gigolo	Dovi
2013	Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve	Narrator (voice)
2013	A Perfect Man	James
2013	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Bobby Lincoln
2012	Goon	Ross Rhea
2012	Mental	Trevor Blundell
2012	Space Dive	Himself - Narrator (US version)
2012	Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
2011	Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective	Self
2011	Runnin' Rebels of UNLV	Narrator
2011	Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011	The Lost Kennedy Home Movies	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2011	McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice	Narrator
2011	The Curious Case of Curt Flood	Narrator
2010	Repo Men	Frank
2010	Salt	Theodore Winter
2010	Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals	Narrator (voice)
2010	Every Day	Ned
2010	America: The Story of Us	Himself - Narrator
2010	Broad Street Bullies	(narrator)
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Victor Creed
2009	Taking Woodstock	Wilma
2009	Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times	Narrator
2009	Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina	Narrator
2009	Weapon X Mutant Files	Self
2009	Ted Williams	Narrator
2009	Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins	Self
2008	Defiance	Zus Bielski
2008	Chicago 10	William Kunstler (voice)
2008	Operation Filmmaker	Self
2008	The Defector	Narrator
2008	Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open	Self - Host
2008	Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed	Narrator
2008	Thrilla in Manila	Narrator
2008	Barbaro	Narrator
2008	Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football	Narrator
2007	Love in the Time of Cholera	Lotario Thurgot
2007	Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry	Narrator
2007	The Ten	Ray Johnson
2007	Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush	Self (Narrator)
2007	The Living Weapon
2007	Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team	Narrator
2007	Sputnik Mania	Narrator
2007	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure	Narrator
2006	The Omen	Robert Thorn
2006	The Painted Veil	Charlie Townsend
2006	The New Medicine	Narrator
2005	Living with Wolves	narrator
2005	Oil Storm	Himself - Narrator (voice)
2005	Lackawanna Blues	Ulysses Ford
2005	Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship	Self - Narrator (voice)
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
2003	Battle of the X-Planes	Narrator
2003	Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death	Self - Narrator (voice)
2003	Spinning Boris	Joe Shumate
2003	Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s	Self
2003	The Shakespeare Sessions
2002	The Sum of All Fears	John Clark
2002	Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'	Self - Narrator (voice)
2002	Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team	Self - Narrator
2002	Iron and Beyond	Self - Narrator (voice)
2002	Young Dr. Freud	Sigmund Freud (Voice)
2002	:03 from Gold	Narrator (voice)
2002	A Brilliant Madness	Narrator (voice)
2002	Ulysses S. Grant	Narrator
2002	American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)	Narrator
2001	Kate & Leopold	Stuart Besser
2001	Fatal Flood	Narrator (voice)
2001	Shot Heard 'Round the World	Narrator
2000	Hamlet	Laertes
2000	Scream 3	Cotton Weary
2000	RKO 281	Orson Welles
2000	Spring Forward	Paul
2000	Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible	Narrator
2000	When It Was a Game 3	Narrator (voice)
1999	Meltdown at Three Mile Island	Self - Narrator
1999	Jakob the Liar	Mischa
1999	The Hurricane	Sam Chaiton
1999	A Walk on the Moon	Marty Kantrowitz
1999	Desert Blue	Mickey Moonday (voice)
1999	Decoding Nazi Secrets	Himself - Narrator
1999	The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships	Narrator
1999	Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games	Narrator (voice)
1998	Sphere	Dr. Ted Fielding
1998	Twilight	Jeff Willis
1998	Phantoms	Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
1998	City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal	Himself-Narrator
1998	Babe Ruth	Himself - Narrator (voice)
1998	Since You've Been Gone	Fred Linderhoff
1998	Surviving the Dust Bowl	Narrator (voice)
1998	Mr. Miami Beach	Narrator
1997	The Daytrippers	Carl Petrovic
1997	His and Hers	Glenn
1997	Sports on the Silver Screen	Self - Narrator (voice)
1997	Scream 2	Cotton Weary
1997	Baggage
1996	Ransom	Clark Barnes
1996	Scream	Cotton Weary
1996	Big Night	Leo
1996	The Sunshine Boys	Ricky Gregg
1996	Walking and Talking	Andrew
1996	Spirit of the Games	Narrator
1995	Party Girl	Nigel
1995	Denise Calls Up	Jerry Heckerman
1995	Mad Love	Salesman
1995	Buffalo Girls	Ogden
1995	Two Billion Hearts	Narrator
1994	Mixed Nuts	Chris
1994	Janek: The Silent Betrayal	Owens
	The Guns of Christmas Past	Ebb

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
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)
	Untitled Crime Series Based on Lars Kepler Novels	Jonah Lynn