
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
Acting History
2025
The American Revolution as Samuel Adams (voice) / Nathaniel Greene (voice) / Lewis Beebe (voice)
2025The American Revolution as voice
2025Splinter Cell: Deathwatch as Sam Fisher (voice)
2025Caught Stealing as Lipa
2025The Last Twins as Narrator
2024Undisputed as Self
2024Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration as Self
2024The Perfect Couple as Tag Winbury
2024Violent Earth as Self - Host
2023Meeting Zelenskyy as Self
2023Across the River and into the Trees as Colonel Richard Cantwell
2023Golda as Henry Kissinger
2023Command Z as Kohlberg Pryce
2023Asteroid City as J.J. Kellogg
2023A Small Light as Otto Frank
2023Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa as Self (archive footage)
2022The Conspiracy
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie as Ray Donovan
2021Don't Look Up as Bash Narrator (voice)
2021Hard Knocks: In Season as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Talk Show Host
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2020Human Capital as Drew Hagel
2019Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season as Narrator (voice)
2019A Rainy Day in New York as Roland Pollard
2019Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
2019The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti as Narrator
2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Wilson Fisk (voice)
2018Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes as Narrator
2018Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
2018Civilisations as Narrator
2018Isle of Dogs as Spots (voice)
2017My Little Pony: The Movie as The Storm King (voice)
2017The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
2017America in Color as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017Chuck as Chuck Wepner
2017Goon: Last of the Enforcers as Ross Rhea
2017UConn: The March to Madness
2016Finding Babel as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
2016The 5th Wave as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
2015Creed as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
2015Spotlight as Marty Baron
2015Kareem: Minority of One as Narrator (voice)
2015Pawn Sacrifice as Boris Spassky
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Unity as Narrator (voice)
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014BoJack Horseman as Copernicus (Voice)
2014Clear History as Tibor (uncredited)
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Rick and Morty as Fear Hole Demon (voice)
2013A Perfect Man as James
2013Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle as Narrator (voice)
2013Fading Gigolo as Dovi
2013Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve as Narrator (voice)
2013The Butler as Lyndon B. Johnson
2013The Last Days on Mars as Vincent Campbell
2013Drunk History as Victor Lustig
2013Ray Donovan as Ray Donovan
2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Bobby Lincoln
2013Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust as Narrator (voice)
2013Movie 43 as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
2012Mental as Trevor Blundell
2012Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
2012Goon as Ross Rhea
2011The Curious Case of Curt Flood as Narrator
2011The Lost Kennedy Home Movies as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2011Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice as Narrator
2011Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective as Self
2011Runnin' Rebels of UNLV as Narrator
2010Road to the NHL Winter Classic as Narrator
2010America: The Story of Us as Himself - Narrator
2010Salt as Theodore Winter
2010Broad Street Bullies as (narrator)
2010America: The Story of Us as Self - Narrator (voice)
2010Repo Men as Frank
2010Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals as Narrator (voice)
2010Every Day as Ned
2009Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins as Self
2009Weapon X Mutant Files as Self
2009Taking Woodstock as Wilma
2009Ted Williams as Narrator
2009X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Victor Creed
2009Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina as Narrator
2009Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times as Narrator
2008Defiance as Zus Bielski
2008Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football as Narrator
2008Thrilla in Manila as Narrator
2008The Defector as Narrator
2008Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open as Self - Host
2008Barbaro as Narrator
2008Chicago 10 as William Kunstler (voice)
2008Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed as Narrator
2008Operation Filmmaker as Self
2008The Jewish Americans as Self - Narrator (voice)
2007Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry as Narrator
2007Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team as Narrator
2007Love in the Time of Cholera as Lotario Thurgot
2007Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure as Narrator
2007The Ten as Ray Johnson
2007Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush as Self (Narrator)
2007Sputnik Mania as Narrator
200724/7
2007The Living Weapon
2006The Painted Veil as Charlie Townsend
2006The Omen as Robert Thorn
2006The New Medicine as Narrator
2005Oil Storm as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2005Living with Wolves as narrator
2005Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005Robot Chicken as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)
2005Lackawanna Blues as Ulysses Ford
2004The Manchurian Candidate as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
2003Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s as Self
2003Spinning Boris as Joe Shumate
2003Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Ernst Hanfstaengl
2003Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi
2003NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet as Self - Narrator(voice)
2003Battle of the X-Planes as Narrator
2003The Shakespeare Sessions
2002Young Dr. Freud as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
2002Iron and Beyond as Self - Narrator (voice)
2002:03 from Gold as Narrator (voice)
2002The Sum of All Fears as John Clark
2002A Brilliant Madness as Narrator (voice)
2002American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) as Narrator
2002Ulysses S. Grant as Narrator
2002Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies as Narrator
2002Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team as Self - Narrator
2002Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' as Self - Narrator (voice)
2001Kate & Leopold as Stuart Besser
2001Hard Knocks as Self - Narrator (voice)
2001Shot Heard 'Round the World as Narrator
2001Fatal Flood as Narrator (voice)
2000Spring Forward as Paul
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Michael Keppler
2000Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible as Narrator
2000When It Was a Game 3 as Narrator (voice)
2000Secrets of the Dead as Narrator
2000Hamlet as Laertes
2000RKO 281 as Orson Welles
2000Scream 3 as Cotton Weary
1999The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships as Narrator
1999The Hurricane as Sam Chaiton
1999Jakob the Liar as Mischa
1999Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games as Narrator (voice)
1999Desert Blue as Mickey Moonday (voice)
1999Decoding Nazi Secrets as Himself - Narrator
1999Meltdown at Three Mile Island as Self - Narrator
1999A Walk on the Moon as Marty Kantrowitz
1998Babe Ruth as Himself - Narrator (voice)
1998Since You've Been Gone as Fred Linderhoff
1998City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal as Himself-Narrator
1998Twilight as Jeff Willis
1998Surviving the Dust Bowl as Narrator (voice)
1998Sphere as Dr. Ted Fielding
1998Mr. Miami Beach as Narrator
1998Phantoms as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
1997Scream 2 as Cotton Weary
1997The View as Self
1997Sports on the Silver Screen as Self - Narrator (voice)
1997The Daytrippers as Carl Petrovic
1997His and Hers as Glenn
1997Baggage
1996Scream as Cotton Weary
1996Ransom as Clark Barnes
1996Big Night as Leo
1996The Sunshine Boys as Ricky Gregg
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996The Daily Show as Self, Bank Manager
1996Walking and Talking as Andrew
1996Spirit of the Games as Narrator
1995Party Girl as Nigel
1995Mad Love as Salesman
1995Denise Calls Up as Jerry Heckerman
1995Buffalo Girls as Ogden
1995Two Billion Hearts as Narrator
1994Mixed Nuts as Chris
1994Janek: The Silent Betrayal as Owens
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1989The Simpsons as "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)
1988American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1982Nature as Narrator (voice)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1974NOVA
1974NOVA as Narrator (voice)
—The Guns of Christmas Past as Ebb
—Parallax as Jonah Lynn
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