Acting
Liev Schreiber
EN, UK cinema · 159 credits
Born
4 October 1967 (age 59)
Birthplace
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known as Isaac 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
Filmography
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Wilson Fisk (voice)
Caught Stealing
as Lipa
The Last Twins
as Narrator
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
Executive Producer
Undisputed
as Self
Golda
as Henry Kissinger
Meeting Zelenskyy
as Self, Director
Across the River and into the Trees
as Colonel Richard Cantwell
Asteroid City
as J.J. Kellogg
Rule of Two Walls
Executive Producer
Ray Donovan: The Movie
as Ray Donovan, Writer, Executive Producer
Ukrainians in Exile
Executive Producer
Don't Look Up
as Bash Narrator (voice)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Talk Show Host
Human Capital
as Drew Hagel, Producer
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)
Isle of Dogs
as Spots (voice)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Wilson Fisk (voice)
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
as Ross Rhea
Chuck
as Chuck Wepner, Screenplay, Producer
My Little Pony: The Movie
as The Storm King (voice)
The 5th Wave
as Colonel Vosch
Finding Babel
as Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
Pawn Sacrifice
as Boris Spassky
Spotlight
as Marty Baron
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
Creed
as HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
Kareem: Minority of One
as Narrator (voice)
Fading Gigolo
as Dovi
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
as Narrator (voice)
Movie 43
as Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
The Butler
as Lyndon B. Johnson
The Last Days on Mars
as Vincent Campbell
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
as Narrator (voice)
A Perfect Man
as James
Clear History
as Tibor (uncredited)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Bobby Lincoln
Goon
as Ross Rhea
Mental
as Trevor Blundell
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
as Narrator
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
as Narrator
Repo Men
as Frank
Salt
as Theodore Winter
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
as Narrator (voice)
Every Day
as Ned
America: The Story of Us
as Himself - Narrator
Broad Street Bullies
as (narrator)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
as Victor Creed
Taking Woodstock
as Vilma
Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
2009
Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
as Narrator
Ted Williams
as Narrator
The Cove
Thanks
Defiance
as Zus Bielski
Chicago 10
as William Kunstler (voice)
The Defector
as Narrator
Thrilla in Manila
as Narrator
Barbaro
as Narrator
Love in the Time of Cholera
as Lotario Thurgot
The Ten
as Ray Johnson
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
2007
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
as Self (Narrator)
Sputnik Mania
as Narrator
Raptor Force
as Narrator
The Omen
as Robert Thorn
The Painted Veil
as Charlie Townsend
The New Medicine
as Narrator
Living with Wolves
as narrator
Oil Storm
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Lackawanna Blues
as Ulysses Ford
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Seamless
as Self
Everything Is Illuminated
Director, Screenplay
The Manchurian Candidate
as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
Battle of the X-Planes
as Narrator
Spinning Boris
as Joe Shumate
NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet
as Self - Narrator(voice)
The Sum of All Fears
as John Clark
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Iron and Beyond
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Young Dr. Freud
as Sigmund Freud (Voice)
:03 from Gold
as Narrator (voice)
A Brilliant Madness
as Narrator (voice)
Ulysses S. Grant
as Narrator
Kate & Leopold
as Stuart Besser
Fatal Flood
as Narrator (voice)
Shot Heard 'Round the World
as Narrator
Hamlet
as Laertes
Scream 3
as Cotton Weary
Spring Forward
as Paul, Associate Producer
When It Was a Game 3
2000
When It Was a Game 3
as Narrator (voice)
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
as Self - Narrator
Jakob the Liar
as Mischa
The Hurricane
as Sam Chaiton
A Walk on the Moon
as Marty Kantrowitz
Desert Blue
as Mickey Moonday (voice)
RKO 281
as Orson Welles
Decoding Nazi Secrets
1999
Decoding Nazi Secrets
as Himself - Narrator
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
as Narrator (voice)
Sphere
as Dr. Ted Fielding
Twilight
as Jeff Willis
Phantoms
as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
as Himself-Narrator
Babe Ruth
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Since You've Been Gone
as Fred Linderhoff
Surviving the Dust Bowl
as Narrator (voice)
Mr. Miami Beach
as Narrator
The Daytrippers
as Carl Petrovic
His and Hers
as Glenn
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Scream 2
as Cotton Weary
Ransom
as Clark Barnes
Scream
as Cotton Weary
Big Night
as Leo
The Sunshine Boys
as Ricky Gregg
Walking and Talking
as Andrew
Spirit of the Games
as Narrator
Party Girl
as Nigel
Denise Calls Up
as Jerry Heckerman
Mad Love
as Salesman
Buffalo Girls
as Ogden
Two Billion Hearts
as Narrator
Mixed Nuts
as Chris