
Liev Schreiber
Birthday: 1967-10-04
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography: 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.

Scream, 1996
Detective
Horror
Mystery

Ransom, 1996
Action
Thriller

Big Night, 1996
Drama
Romance

Scream 2, 1997
Horror
Mystery

Sphere, 1998
Sci-Fi
Mystery
Thriller
Horror

Phantoms, 1998
Horror
Sci-Fi
Thriller

The Hurricane, 1999
Drama

Jakob the Liar, 1999
Comedy
Drama
Historical

Scream 3, 2000
Horror
Mystery

Kate & Leopold, 2001
Romance
Comedy
Fantasy

The Sum of All Fears, 2002
Thriller
Action
Drama

The Manchurian Candidate, 2004
Drama
Thriller
Mystery

The Painted Veil, 2006
Romance
Drama

Love in the Time of Cholera, 2007
Drama
Romance

Defiance, 2008
Action
Drama
Historical
War

Taking Woodstock, 2009
Comedy
Drama

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009
Adventure
Action
Sci-Fi

Salt, 2010
Action
Mystery
Thriller

Repo Men, 2010
Action
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Detective

Goon, 2012
Comedy
Drama

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2013
Thriller

Fading Gigolo, 2013
Comedy

The Butler, 2013
Drama

The Last Days on Mars, 2013
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Horror

Creed, 2015
Action
Drama

Spotlight, 2015
Drama
Historical

Pawn Sacrifice, 2015
Thriller
Drama

The 5th Wave, 2016
Sci-Fi
Adventure
Action

My Little Pony: The Movie, 2017
Animation
Adventure
Fantasy

Goon: Last of the Enforcers, 2017
Comedy

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018
Animation
Action
Adventure
Sci-Fi

Isle of Dogs, 2018
Adventure
Comedy
Animation

A Rainy Day in New York, 2019
Comedy
Romance

Don't Look Up, 2021
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Drama

The French Dispatch, 2021
Drama
Comedy

Asteroid City, 2023
Comedy
Drama