Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and narrator. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s after appearing in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the first three Scream horror films (1996-2000), Ransom (1996), The Hurricane (1999), Kate & Leopold (2001), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Omen (2006), Defiance (2008), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Taking Woodstock (2009), Salt (2010), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Spotlight (2015), The 5th Wave (2016), and The French Dispatch (2021).
For his roles in television, he most notably portrayed the eponymous protagonist of the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan (2013–2020). The role has earned him five Golden Globe Award nominations and three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He reprised the role in the television film Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022). He has lent his voice to animated films such as My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Isle of Dogs, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (both 2018). He also narrated the HBO series Hard Knocks, 24/7 and the HBO documentary Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals, as well as various PBS programs.
He has performed in several Broadway productions. In 2005, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the play Glengarry Glen Ross. That same year, he made his debut as a film director and writer with Everything Is Illuminated (2005), based on the 2002 novel of the same name.
For his roles in television, he most notably portrayed the eponymous protagonist of the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan (2013–2020). The role has earned him five Golden Globe Award nominations and three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He reprised the role in the television film Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022). He has lent his voice to animated films such as My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Isle of Dogs, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (both 2018). He also narrated the HBO series Hard Knocks, 24/7 and the HBO documentary Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals, as well as various PBS programs.
He has performed in several Broadway productions. In 2005, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the play Glengarry Glen Ross. That same year, he made his debut as a film director and writer with Everything Is Illuminated (2005), based on the 2002 novel of the same name.
Known for
Violent Earth
Across the River and Into the Trees
Golda
Command Z
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
Rule of Two Walls
A Small Light
Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa
The Conspiracy
Ukrainians in Exile
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Don't Look Up
Hard Knocks: In Season
The French Dispatch
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Human Capital
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
A Rainy Day in New York
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Isle of Dogs
Civilisations
My Little Pony: The Movie
The Pulitzer At 100
America in Color
Chuck
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
UConn: The March to Madness
The 5th Wave
Creed
Spotlight
Kareem: Minority of One
Finding Babel
Pawn Sacrifice
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Unity
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
BoJack Horseman
Clear History
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Rick and Morty
A Perfect Man
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Fading Gigolo
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
The Butler
The Last Days on Mars
Drunk History
Ray Donovan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
Movie 43
Space Dive
Mental
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
Goon
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies
Portraits in Dramatic Time
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Road to the Winter Classic
America: The Story of Us
Salt
Broad Street Bullies
America: The Story of Us
Repo Men
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
Every Day
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
Taking Woodstock
The Cove
Ted Williams
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
Defiance
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
Thrilla in Manila
The Defector
Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open
Barbaro
Chicago 10
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Operation Filmmaker
The Jewish Americans
Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Ten
24/7
The Painted Veil
The Omen
The New Medicine
Everything Is Illuminated
Living with Wolves
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship
Robot Chicken
Lackawanna Blues
The Manchurian Candidate
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
Spinning Boris
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Young Dr. Freud
Iron and Beyond
:03 from Gold
The Sum of All Fears
A Brilliant Madness
Ulysses S. Grant
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
Kate & Leopold
Hard Knocks
Shot Heard 'Round the World
Fatal Flood
Spring Forward
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Secrets of the Dead
Hamlet
RKO 281
Scream 3
The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships
The Hurricane
Jakob the Liar
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
Desert Blue
A Walk on the Moon
Babe Ruth
Since You've Been Gone
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
Twilight
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Sphere
Mr. Miami Beach
Phantoms
Scream 2
The View
The Daytrippers
Scream
Ransom
Big Night
The Sunshine Boys
The Daily Show
Walking and Talking
Spirit of the Games
Party Girl
Mad Love
Denise Calls Up
Buffalo Girls
Two Billion Hearts
Mixed Nuts
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Simpsons
American Experience
Nature
Saturday Night Live
NOVA
Acting
Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa
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