Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber

Born 4 October 1967 · San Francisco, California, USA
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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).

Known for

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Rick and Morty
The Simpsons
Don't Look Up
Spotlight
Scream
Creed
The 5th Wave
Salt
Isle of Dogs
Scream 2
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Caught Stealing
The Last Twins
Golda
Across the River and into the Trees
Asteroid City
Meeting Zelenskyy
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Don't Look Up
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Human Capital
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
A Rainy Day in New York
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Isle of Dogs
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Chuck
My Little Pony: The Movie
The 5th Wave
Pawn Sacrifice
Spotlight
Unity
Creed
Kareem: Minority of One
Fading Gigolo
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
Movie 43
The Butler
The Last Days on Mars
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
A Perfect Man
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Goon
Mental
Portraits in Dramatic Time
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
Repo Men
Salt
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
Every Day
Broad Street Bullies
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Taking Woodstock
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
Ted Williams
Defiance
Chicago 10
The Defector
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Thrilla in Manila
Barbaro
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
Love in the Time of Cholera
Michigan vs. Ohio State:  The Rivalry
The Ten
Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
Sputnik Mania
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Raptor Force
The Omen
The Painted Veil
The New Medicine
Living with Wolves
Lackawanna Blues
Rebels on the Run: The Rise and Fall of UNLV Basketball
Everything Is Illuminated
The Manchurian Candidate
Secrets of the Dead: D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict
Battle of the X-Planes
Spinning Boris
The Sum of All Fears
Young Dr. Freud
:03 from Gold
A Brilliant Madness
Ulysses S. Grant
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
Kate & Leopold
Fatal Flood
Shot Heard 'Round the World
Hamlet
Scream 3
Spring Forward
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
Jakob the Liar
The Hurricane
A Walk on the Moon
Desert Blue
RKO 281
The Viking Saga -  The Era of The Long Ships
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
Sphere
Twilight
Phantoms
Since You've Been Gone
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Mr. Miami Beach
The Daytrippers
His and Hers
Scream 2
Ransom
Scream
Big Night
The Sunshine Boys
Walking and Talking
Spirit of the Games
Party Girl
Denise Calls Up
Mad Love
Buffalo Girls
Two Billion Hearts
Mixed Nuts
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