Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Born 1967-10-04 (age 58) San Francisco, California, USA
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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

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018

as Wilson Fisk (voice)

Scream
Scream

1996

as Cotton Weary

Creed
Creed

2015

as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)

Don't Look Up
Don't Look Up

2021

as Bash Narrator (voice)

Scream 2
Scream 2

1997

as Cotton Weary

Caught Stealing
Caught Stealing

2025

as Lipa

Scream 3
Scream 3

2000

as Cotton Weary

Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs

2018

as Spots (voice)

Salt
Salt

2010

as Theodore Winter

Movie 43
Movie 43

2013

as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")

Asteroid City
Asteroid City

2023

as J.J. Kellogg

My Little Pony: The Movie
My Little Pony: The Movie

2017

as The Storm King (voice)

The 5th Wave
The 5th Wave

2016

as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch

Ransom
Ransom

1996

as Clark Barnes

The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears

2002

as John Clark

Spotlight
Spotlight

2015

as Marty Baron

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

2027

as Wilson Fisk (voice)

The Butler
The Butler

2013

as Lyndon B. Johnson

The Hurricane
The Hurricane

1999

as Sam Chaiton