Liev Schreiber
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Born to Bowl as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · The American Revolution as Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
- 2025 · Splinter Cell: Deathwatch as Sam Fisher (voice)
- 2024 · Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 2024 · Violent Earth as Self - Host
- 2021 · Hard Knocks: In Season as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Human Capital as Drew Hagel
- 2019 · Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
- 2018 · Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes as Narrator
- 2018 · Civilisations as Narrator
- 2017 · America in Color as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Kareem: Minority of One as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Fading Gigolo as Dovi
- 2013 · Clear History as Tibor (uncredited)
- 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Bobby Lincoln
- 2013 · Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Mental as Trevor Blundell
- 2011 · Portraits in Dramatic Time as
- 2011 · McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice as Narrator
- 2010 · Road to the NHL Winter Classic as Narrator
- 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Himself - Narrator
- 2010 · Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Every Day as Ned
- 2009 · Taking Woodstock as Vilma
- 2009 · X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Victor Creed
- 2008 · Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open as Self - Host
- 2008 · Chicago 10 as William Kunstler (voice)
- 2008 · The Jewish Americans as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · The Ten as Ray Johnson
- 2007 · 24/7 as
- 2005 · Lackawanna Blues as Ulysses Ford
- 2003 · Spinning Boris as Joe Shumate
- 2002 · American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) as Narrator
- 2002 · Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team as Self - Narrator
- 2000 · Spring Forward as Paul
- 2000 · Hamlet as Laertes
- 1999 · RKO 281 as Orson Welles
- 1999 · Jakob the Liar as Mischa
- 1999 · Desert Blue as Mickey Moonday (voice)
- 1998 · Twilight as Jeff Willis
- 1998 · Phantoms as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
- 1997 · The Daytrippers as Carl Petrovic
- 1996 · Big Night as Leo
- 1996 · Walking and Talking as Andrew
- 1995 · Party Girl as Nigel
- 1995 · Mad Love as Salesman
- 1994 · Mixed Nuts as Chris
- Future · Parallax as Jonah Lynn
- 2025 · They Fight with Cameras as
- 2025 · Caught Stealing as Lipa
- 2025 · The Last Twins as Narrator
- 2024 · Undisputed as Self
- 2024 · The Perfect Couple as Tag Winbury
- 2023 · Meeting Zelenskyy as Self
- 2023 · Across the River and into the Trees as Colonel Richard Cantwell
- 2023 · Golda as Henry Kissinger
- 2023 · Command Z as Kohlberg Pryce
- 2023 · Asteroid City as J.J. Kellogg
- 2023 · A Small Light as Otto Frank
- 2023 · Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · The Conspiracy as
- 2022 · Ray Donovan: The Movie as Ray Donovan
- 2021 · Don't Look Up as Bash Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Talk Show Host
- 2021 · Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2019 · A Rainy Day in New York as Roland Pollard
- 2019 · The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti as Narrator
- 2018 · Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Wilson Fisk (voice)
- 2018 · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
- 2018 · Isle of Dogs as Spots (voice)
- 2017 · My Little Pony: The Movie as The Storm King (voice)
- 2017 · The Pulitzer At 100 as Self
- 2017 · Chuck as Chuck Wepner
- 2017 · Goon: Last of the Enforcers as Ross Rhea
- 2017 · UConn: The March to Madness as
- 2016 · Finding Babel as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
- 2016 · The 5th Wave as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
- 2015 · Creed as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Spotlight as Marty Baron
- 2015 · Pawn Sacrifice as Boris Spassky
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Copernicus (Voice)
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Fear Hole Demon (voice)
- 2013 · A Perfect Man as James
- 2013 · Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Butler as Lyndon B. Johnson
- 2013 · The Last Days on Mars as Vincent Campbell
- 2013 · Drunk History as Victor Lustig
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Ray Donovan
- 2013 · Movie 43 as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
- 2012 · Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery as
- 2012 · Goon as Ross Rhea
- 2011 · The Curious Case of Curt Flood as Narrator
- 2011 · The Lost Kennedy Home Movies as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective as Self
- 2011 · Runnin' Rebels of UNLV as Narrator
- 2010 · Salt as Theodore Winter
- 2010 · Broad Street Bullies as (narrator)
- 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Repo Men as Frank
- 2009 · Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins as Self
- 2009 · Weapon X Mutant Files as Self
- 2009 · Ted Williams as Narrator
- 2009 · Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina as Narrator
- 2009 · Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times as Narrator
- 2008 · Defiance as Zus Bielski
- 2008 · Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football as Narrator
- 2008 · Thrilla in Manila as Narrator
- 2008 · The Defector as Narrator
- 2008 · Barbaro as Narrator
- 2008 · Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed as Narrator
- 2008 · Operation Filmmaker as Self
- 2007 · Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry as Narrator
- 2007 · Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team as Narrator
- 2007 · Love in the Time of Cholera as Lotario Thurgot
- 2007 · Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure as Narrator
- 2007 · Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush as Self (Narrator)
- 2007 · Sputnik Mania as Narrator
- 2007 · The Living Weapon as
- 2006 · The Painted Veil as Charlie Townsend
- 2006 · The Omen as Robert Thorn
- 2006 · The New Medicine as Narrator
- 2005 · Oil Storm as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Living with Wolves as narrator
- 2005 · Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Robot Chicken as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)
- 2004 · The Manchurian Candidate as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
- 2003 · Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s as Self
- 2003 · Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Ernst Hanfstaengl
- 2003 · Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi as
- 2003 · NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet as Self - Narrator(voice)
- 2003 · Battle of the X-Planes as Narrator
- 2003 · The Shakespeare Sessions as
- 2002 · Young Dr. Freud as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
- 2002 · Iron and Beyond as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · :03 from Gold as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · The Sum of All Fears as John Clark
- 2002 · A Brilliant Madness as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Ulysses S. Grant as Narrator
- 2002 · Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies as Narrator
- 2002 · Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Kate & Leopold as Stuart Besser
- 2001 · Hard Knocks as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Shot Heard 'Round the World as Narrator
- 2001 · Fatal Flood as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Michael Keppler
- 2000 · Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible as Narrator
- 2000 · When It Was a Game 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Secrets of the Dead as Narrator
- 2000 · Scream 3 as Cotton Weary
- 1999 · The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships as Narrator
- 1999 · The Hurricane as Sam Chaiton
- 1999 · Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Decoding Nazi Secrets as Himself - Narrator
- 1999 · Meltdown at Three Mile Island as Self - Narrator
- 1999 · A Walk on the Moon as Marty Kantrowitz
- 1998 · Babe Ruth as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · Since You've Been Gone as Fred Linderhoff
- 1998 · City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal as Himself-Narrator
- 1998 · Surviving the Dust Bowl as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · Sphere as Dr. Ted Fielding
- 1998 · Mr. Miami Beach as Narrator
- 1997 · Scream 2 as Cotton Weary
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Sports on the Silver Screen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Baggage as
- 1997 · His and Hers as Glenn
- 1996 · Scream as Cotton Weary
- 1996 · Ransom as Clark Barnes
- 1996 · The Sunshine Boys as Ricky Gregg
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self, Bank Manager
- Future · BlackFox as
- 1996 · Spirit of the Games as Narrator
- 1995 · Denise Calls Up as Jerry Heckerman
- 1995 · Buffalo Girls as Ogden
- 1995 · Two Billion Hearts as Narrator
- 1994 · Janek: The Silent Betrayal as Owens
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 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
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1974 · NOVA as
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator (voice)
- Future · The Guns of Christmas Past as Ebb