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Aliases: Isaac Liev Schreiber , 리브 슈라이버 , 列夫·施赖伯 , 艾萨克·列夫·施赖伯 , Лієв Шрайбер , אייזק לייב שרייבר , ליב שרייבר , لیو شرایبر

Gender: Male

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 126

TV Involvements: 21


Most Famous Work

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Liev Schreiber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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8

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

(2000) Michael Keppler
NOVA
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7

NOVA

(1974) Narrator (voice)
American Experience
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7

American Experience

(1988) Narrator (voice)
Nature
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8

Nature

(1982) Narrator (voice)
Ray Donovan
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7

Ray Donovan

(2013) Ray Donovan
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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8

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

(2018) Wilson Fisk (voice)
Secrets of the Dead
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6

Secrets of the Dead

(2000) Narrator
Scream
Average
7

Scream

(1996) Cotton Weary

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2025 Lipa
2024 Self
N/A
Tag Winbury
Self - Host
2023 Self
Colonel Richard Cantwell
Henry Kissinger
Kohlberg Pryce
J.J. Kellogg
Otto Frank
Self (archive footage)
2022 N/A
Ray Donovan
2021 Bash Narrator (voice)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Talk Show Host
Self
2020 Drew Hagel
2019 Narrator (voice)
Roland Pollard
Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
Narrator
2018 Wilson Fisk (voice)
Narrator
Self
Narrator
Spots (voice)
2017 The Storm King (voice)
Self
Self - Narrator (voice)
Chuck Wepner
Ross Rhea
N/A
2016 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
2015 HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
Marty Baron
Narrator (voice)
Isaac Babel (voice)
Boris Spassky
Self
Narrator (voice)
2014 Self
Copernicus (Voice)
Tibor (uncredited)
Self
N/A
2013 Fear Hole Demon (voice)
James
Narrator (voice)
Dovi
Narrator (voice)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vincent Campbell
Victor Lustig
Ray Donovan
Bobby Lincoln
Narrator (voice)
Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
2012 Himself - Narrator (US version)
Trevor Blundell
N/A
Ross Rhea
2011 Narrator
Himself - Narrator (voice)
N/A
Narrator
Self
Narrator
2010 Narrator
Narrator
Himself - Narrator
Theodore Winter
(narrator)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Frank
Narrator (voice)
Ned
2009 Self
Self
Wilma
Narrator
Victor Creed
Narrator
Narrator
2008 Zus Bielski
Narrator
Narrator
Narrator
Self - Host
Narrator
William Kunstler (voice)
Narrator
Self
Self - Narrator (voice)
2007 Narrator
Narrator
Lotario Thurgot
Narrator
Ray Johnson
Self (Narrator)
Narrator
N/A
N/A
2006 Charlie Townsend
Robert Thorn
Narrator
2005 Himself - Narrator (voice)
narrator
Self - Narrator (voice)
Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)
Ulysses Ford
2004 Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
2003 Self
Joe Shumate
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ernst Hanfstaengl
Narrator
N/A
2002 Sigmund Freud (Voice)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
John Clark
Narrator (voice)
Narrator
Narrator
Self - Narrator
Self - Narrator (voice)
2001 Stuart Besser
Self - Narrator
Narrator
Narrator (voice)
2000 Paul
Michael Keppler
Narrator
Narrator (voice)
Narrator
Laertes
Orson Welles
Cotton Weary
1999 Narrator
Sam Chaiton
Mischa
Narrator (voice)
Mickey Moonday (voice)
Himself - Narrator
Self - Narrator
Marty Kantrowitz
1998 Himself - Narrator (voice)
Fred Linderhoff
Himself-Narrator
Jeff Willis
Narrator (voice)
Dr. Ted Fielding
Narrator
Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
1997 Cotton Weary
Self
Self - Narrator (voice)
Carl Petrovic
Glenn
N/A
1996 Cotton Weary
Clark Barnes
Leo
Ricky Gregg
Self
Self, Bank Manager
Andrew
Narrator
1995 Nigel
Salesman
Jerry Heckerman
Ogden
Narrator
1994 Chris
Owens
1993 Self - Guest
1992 N/A
1989 "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)
1988 Narrator (voice)
1982 Narrator (voice)
1975 Self - Host
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1974 N/A
Narrator (voice)
Ebb
Sam Fisher (voice)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2023 Director
2013 Director
2005 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Writer
2017 Screenplay
2005 Screenplay
Year Role Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2009 Thanks
Year Role Movie/Tv

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