Liev Schreiber
Overview
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.
2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Average rating: 8.4
1996
Scream
Average rating: 7.4
2015
Creed
Average rating: 7.4
2021
Don't Look Up
Average rating: 7.1
2010
Salt
Average rating: 6.4
1997
Scream 2
Average rating: 6.5
2018
Isle of Dogs
Average rating: 7.8
2016
The 5th Wave
Average rating: 5.9
1998
Sphere
Average rating: 6.1
2002
The Sum of All Fears
Average rating: 6.3
2000
Scream 3
Average rating: 6
2006
The Omen
Average rating: 5.6
2013
Movie 43
Average rating: 4.6
1996
Ransom
Average rating: 6.7
2017
My Little Pony: The Movie
Average rating: 7.2
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Average rating: 5.5
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Average rating: 6.5
1996
The Daily Show
Average rating: 6.3
1996
The Daily Show
Average rating: 6.3
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Average rating: 5.9
1975
Saturday Night Live
Average rating: 6.9
1975
Saturday Night Live
Average rating: 6.9
1989
The Simpsons
Average rating: 8
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Average rating: 4.3
1974
NOVA
Average rating: 6.8
1974
NOVA
Average rating: 6.8
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Average rating: 7.6
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Average rating: 7.5
2013
Rick and Morty
Average rating: 8.7
2005
Robot Chicken
Average rating: 7.6Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Tv Show | The Perfect Couple | Tag Winbury |
| 2024 | Tv Show | Violent Earth | Self - Host |
| 2023 | Movie | Meeting Zelenskyy | Self |
| 2023 | Movie | Across the River and Into the Trees | Colonel Richard Cantwell |
| 2023 | Movie | Golda | Henry Kissinger |
| 2023 | Tv Show | Command Z | Kohlberg Pryce |
| 2023 | Movie | Asteroid City | J.J. Kellogg |
| 2023 | Tv Show | A Small Light | Otto Frank |
| 2023 | Movie | Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Movie | The Conspiracy | - |
| 2022 | Movie | Ray Donovan: The Movie | Ray Donovan |
| 2021 | Movie | Don't Look Up | Bash Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | Tv Show | Hard Knocks: In Season | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | Movie | The French Dispatch | Talk Show Host |
| 2021 | Movie | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self |
| 2020 | Movie | Human Capital | Drew Hagel |
| 2019 | Movie | Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season | Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Movie | A Rainy Day in New York | Roland Pollard |
| 2019 | Movie | Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People | Joseph Pulitzer (voice) |
| 2019 | Movie | The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti | Narrator |
| 2018 | Movie | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Wilson Fisk (voice) |
| 2018 | Movie | Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes | Narrator |
| 2018 | Tv Show | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | Self |
| 2018 | Tv Show | Civilisations | Narrator |
| 2018 | Movie | Isle of Dogs | Spots (voice) |
| 2017 | Movie | My Little Pony: The Movie | The Storm King (voice) |
| 2017 | Movie | The Pulitzer At 100 | Self |
| 2017 | Tv Show | America in Color | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Movie | Chuck | Chuck Wepner |
| 2017 | Movie | Goon: Last of the Enforcers | Ross Rhea |
| 2017 | Tv Show | UConn: The March to Madness | - |
| 2016 | Movie | The 5th Wave | Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch |
| 2015 | Movie | Creed | HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Movie | Spotlight | Marty Baron |
| 2015 | Movie | Kareem: Minority of One | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Movie | Finding Babel | Isaac Babel (voice) |
| 2015 | Movie | Pawn Sacrifice | Boris Spassky |
| 2015 | Tv Show | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Tv Show | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | BoJack Horseman | Copernicus (Voice) |
| 2014 | Movie | Clear History | Tibor (uncredited) |
| 2014 | Tv Show | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Tv Show | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | - |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Rick and Morty | Fear Hole Demon (voice) |
| 2013 | Movie | A Perfect Man | James |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Movie | Fading Gigolo | Dovi |
| 2013 | Movie | Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Movie | The Butler | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 2013 | Movie | The Last Days on Mars | Vincent Campbell |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Drunk History | Victor Lustig |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Ray Donovan | Ray Donovan |
| 2013 | Movie | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Bobby Lincoln |
| 2013 | Movie | Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Movie | Movie 43 | Robert (segment "Homeschooled") |
| 2012 | Movie | Space Dive | Himself - Narrator (US version) |
| 2012 | Movie | Mental | Trevor Blundell |
| 2012 | Movie | Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery | - |
| 2012 | Movie | Goon | Ross Rhea |
| 2011 | Movie | The Curious Case of Curt Flood | Narrator |
| 2011 | Movie | The Lost Kennedy Home Movies | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Movie | Portraits in Dramatic Time | - |
| 2011 | Movie | McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice | Narrator |
| 2011 | Movie | Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective | Self |
| 2011 | Movie | Runnin' Rebels of UNLV | Narrator |
| 2010 | Tv Show | Road to the Winter Classic | Narrator |
| 2010 | Tv Show | 24/7: Road to the NHL Winter Classic | Narrator |
| 2010 | Movie | America: The Story of Us | Himself - Narrator |
| 2010 | Movie | Salt | Theodore Winter |
| 2010 | Movie | Broad Street Bullies | (narrator) |
| 2010 | Tv Show | America: The Story of Us | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Movie | Repo Men | Frank |
| 2010 | Movie | Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Movie | Every Day | Ned |
| 2009 | Movie | Weapon X Mutant Files | Self |
| 2009 | Movie | Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins | Self |
| 2009 | Movie | Taking Woodstock | Wilma |
| 2009 | Movie | Ted Williams | Narrator |
| 2009 | Movie | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Victor Creed |
| 2009 | Movie | Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina | Narrator |
| 2009 | Movie | Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times | Narrator |
| 2008 | Movie | Defiance | Zus Bielski |
| 2008 | Movie | Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football | Narrator |
| 2008 | Movie | Thrilla in Manila | Narrator |
| 2008 | Movie | The Defector | Narrator |
| 2008 | Movie | Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open | Host |
| 2008 | Movie | Barbaro | Narrator |
| 2008 | Movie | Chicago 10 | William Kunstler (voice) |
| 2008 | Movie | Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed | Narrator |
| 2008 | Movie | Operation Filmmaker | Himself |
| 2008 | Tv Show | The Jewish Americans | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | Movie | Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry | Narrator |
| 2007 | Movie | Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team | Narrator |
| 2007 | Movie | Love in the Time of Cholera | Lotario Thurgot |
| 2007 | Movie | The Ten | Ray Johnson |
| 2007 | Movie | Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush | Self (Narrator) |
| 2007 | Tv Show | 24/7 | - |
| 2007 | Movie | The Living Weapon | - |
| 2006 | Movie | The Painted Veil | Charlie Townsend |
| 2006 | Movie | The Omen | Robert Thorn |
| 2006 | Movie | The New Medicine | Narrator |
| 2005 | Movie | Oil Storm | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | Living with Wolves | narrator |
| 2005 | Movie | Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship | Narrator |
| 2005 | Tv Show | Robot Chicken | Iron Man / King Triton (Voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | Lackawanna Blues | Ulysses Ford |
| 2004 | Movie | The Manchurian Candidate | Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY) |
| 2003 | Movie | Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s | Self |
| 2003 | Movie | Spinning Boris | Joe Shumate |
| 2003 | Movie | Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Tv Show | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Ernst Hanfstaengl |
| 2003 | Movie | Battle of the X-Planes | Narrator |
| 2003 | Movie | The Shakespeare Sessions | - |
| 2002 | Movie | Young Dr. Freud | Sigmund Freud (Voice) |
| 2002 | Movie | Iron and Beyond | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Movie | :03 from Gold | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Movie | The Sum of All Fears | John Clark |
| 2002 | Movie | A Brilliant Madness | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Movie | Ulysses S. Grant | Narrator |
| 2002 | Movie | American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) | Narrator |
| 2002 | Movie | Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team | Self - Narrator |
| 2002 | Movie | Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Movie | Kate & Leopold | Stuart Besser |
| 2001 | Tv Show | Hard Knocks | Narrator |
| 2001 | Movie | Shot Heard 'Round the World | Narrator |
| 2001 | Movie | Fatal Flood | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Movie | Spring Forward | Paul |
| 2000 | Tv Show | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Michael Keppler |
| 2000 | Movie | Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible | Narrator |
| 2000 | Tv Show | Secrets of the Dead | Narrator |
| 2000 | Movie | Hamlet | Laertes |
| 2000 | Movie | RKO 281 | Orson Welles |
| 2000 | Movie | Scream 3 | Cotton Weary |
| 1999 | Movie | The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships | Narrator |
| 1999 | Movie | The Hurricane | Sam Chaiton |
| 1999 | Movie | Jakob the Liar | Mischa |
| 1999 | Movie | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Movie | Desert Blue | Mickey Moonday (voice) |
| 1999 | Movie | Decoding Nazi Secrets | Himself - Narrator |
| 1999 | Movie | Meltdown at Three Mile Island | Self - Narrator |
| 1999 | Movie | A Walk on the Moon | Marty Kantrowitz |
| 1998 | Movie | Babe Ruth | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Movie | Since You've Been Gone | Fred Linderhoff |
| 1998 | Movie | City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal | Himself-Narrator |
| 1998 | Movie | Twilight | Jeff Willis |
| 1998 | Movie | Surviving the Dust Bowl | Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Movie | Sphere | Dr. Ted Fielding |
| 1998 | Movie | Mr. Miami Beach | Narrator |
| 1998 | Movie | Phantoms | Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle |
| 1997 | Movie | Scream 2 | Cotton Weary |
| 1997 | Tv Show | The View | Self |
| 1997 | Movie | Sports on the Silver Screen | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | Movie | The Daytrippers | Carl Petrovic |
| 1997 | Movie | Baggage | - |
| 1997 | Movie | His and Hers | Glenn |
| 1996 | Movie | Scream | Cotton Weary |
| 1996 | Movie | Ransom | Clark Barnes |
| 1996 | Movie | Big Night | Leo |
| 1996 | Movie | The Sunshine Boys | Ricky Gregg |
| 1996 | Tv Show | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Tv Show | The Daily Show | Self, Bank Manager |
| 1996 | Movie | Walking and Talking | Andrew |
| 1996 | Movie | Spirit of the Games | Narrator |
| 1995 | Movie | Party Girl | Nigel |
| 1995 | Movie | Mad Love | Salesman |
| 1995 | Movie | Denise Calls Up | Jerry Heckerman |
| 1995 | Movie | Buffalo Girls | Ogden |
| 1995 | Movie | Two Billion Hearts | Narrator |
| 1994 | Movie | Mixed Nuts | Chris |
| 1994 | Movie | Janek: The Silent Betrayal | Owens |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1992 | Tv Show | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | - |
| 1989 | Tv Show | The Simpsons | "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | Tv Show | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | Tv Show | Nature | Narrator (voice) |
| 1975 | Tv Show | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Tv Show | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Tv Show | NOVA | - |
| 1974 | Tv Show | NOVA | Narrator (voice) |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Movie | Meeting Zelenskyy | Directing |
| 2023 | Movie | Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story | Production |
| 2023 | Movie | Rule of Two Walls | Production |
| 2022 | Movie | Ukrainians in Exile | Production |
| 2022 | Movie | Ray Donovan: The Movie | Writing |
| 2022 | Movie | Ray Donovan: The Movie | Production |
| 2020 | Movie | Human Capital | Production |
| 2017 | Movie | Chuck | Writing |
| 2017 | Movie | Chuck | Production |
| 2013 | Tv Show | Ray Donovan | Directing |
| 2009 | Movie | The Cove | Crew |
| 2005 | Movie | Everything Is Illuminated | Directing |
| 2005 | Movie | Everything Is Illuminated | Writing |
| 2000 | Movie | Spring Forward | Production |