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Liev Schreiber

Born 1967-10-04

📍 San Francisco, California, USA

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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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

as Wilson Fisk (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

The American Revolution

as Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

as Sam Fisher (voice)

Caught Stealing

Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration

The Perfect Couple

Meeting Zelenskyy

Across the River and into the Trees

as Colonel Richard Cantwell

as Henry Kissinger

as Kohlberg Pryce

as J.J. Kellogg

Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa

as Self (archive footage)

Ray Donovan: The Movie

as Bash Narrator (voice)

Hard Knocks: In Season

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

as Talk Show Host

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season

as Narrator (voice)

A Rainy Day in New York

as Roland Pollard

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

as Joseph Pulitzer (voice)

The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

as Wilson Fisk (voice)

Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

as Spots (voice)

My Little Pony: The Movie

as The Storm King (voice)

The Pulitzer At 100

America in Color

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Chuck Wepner

Goon: Last of the Enforcers

UConn: The March to Madness

as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)

as Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch

as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)

Kareem: Minority of One

as Narrator (voice)

as Boris Spassky

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Narrator (voice)

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

BoJack Horseman

as Copernicus (Voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

as Fear Hole Demon (voice)

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

as Narrator (voice)

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve

as Narrator (voice)

as Lyndon B. Johnson

The Last Days on Mars

as Vincent Campbell

as Tibor (uncredited)

as Victor Lustig

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

as Bobby Lincoln

Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust

as Narrator (voice)

as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")

as Trevor Blundell

Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery

The Curious Case of Curt Flood

The Lost Kennedy Home Movies

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Portraits in Dramatic Time

McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

Road to the NHL Winter Classic

America: The Story of Us

as Himself - Narrator

as Theodore Winter

Broad Street Bullies

America: The Story of Us

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals

as Narrator (voice)

Weapon X Mutant Files

Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins

Taking Woodstock

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

as Victor Creed

Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football

Thrilla in Manila

Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open

as William Kunstler (voice)

Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed

Operation Filmmaker

The Jewish Americans

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry

Love in the Time of Cholera

as Lotario Thurgot

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure

The Painted Veil

as Charlie Townsend

as Robert Thorn

The New Medicine

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Living with Wolves

Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)

Lackawanna Blues

as Ulysses Ford

The Manchurian Candidate

as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)

Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

as Ernst Hanfstaengl

Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi

NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet

as Self - Narrator(voice)

Battle of the X-Planes

Young Dr. Freud

as Sigmund Freud (Voice)

Iron and Beyond

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

The Sum of All Fears

A Brilliant Madness

as Narrator (voice)

American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)

Ulysses S. Grant

Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team

as Self - Narrator

Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Stuart Besser

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Shot Heard 'Round the World

as Narrator (voice)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Michael Keppler

Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible

Secrets of the Dead

as Cotton Weary

as Orson Welles

The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships

Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games

as Narrator (voice)

as Mickey Moonday (voice)

Meltdown at Three Mile Island

as Self - Narrator

A Walk on the Moon

as Marty Kantrowitz

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

Since You've Been Gone

as Fred Linderhoff

City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal

as Himself-Narrator

Surviving the Dust Bowl

as Narrator (voice)

as Dr. Ted Fielding

Mr. Miami Beach

as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle

as Cotton Weary

Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Daytrippers

as Carl Petrovic

as Cotton Weary

as Clark Barnes

The Sunshine Boys

as Self, Bank Manager

Walking and Talking

Spirit of the Games

Denise Calls Up

as Jerry Heckerman

Two Billion Hearts

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

as Narrator (voice)