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Liev Schreiber

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.

Filmography

2025
Caught Stealing

as Lipa

Movie
2023
Asteroid City

as J.J. Kellogg

Movie
2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

as Wilson Fisk (voice)

Movie
2018
Isle of Dogs

as Spots (voice)

Movie
2010
Salt

as Theodore Winter

Movie
2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

as Victor Creed

Movie
2004
The Manchurian Candidate

as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)

Movie
2000
Scream 3

as Cotton Weary

Movie
1999
The Hurricane

as Sam Chaiton

Movie
1997
Scream 2

as Cotton Weary

Movie
1996
Scream

as Cotton Weary

Movie
1996
Ransom

as Clark Barnes

Movie
2025
The American Revolution

as voice

TV Show
2021
Hard Knocks: In Season

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV Show
2001
Hard Knocks

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV Show