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.
Filmography
all 197
Movies 156
self 57
TV Shows 41
Narrator 36
Voice 18
Producer 2
Director 2
Hard Knocks in Season: The Miami Dolphins (2024)
Meeting Zelenskyy (2023)
Across the River and Into the Trees (2023)
Golda (2023)
Command Z (2023)
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (2023)
Asteroid City (2023)
Rule of Two Walls (2023)
A Small Light (2023)
Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa (2023)
The Conspiracy (2022)
Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)
Don't Look Up (2021)
Hard Knocks: In Season (2021)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
16 and Recovering (2020)
Human Capital (2020)
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season (2019)
24/7 College Football (2019)
A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (2019)
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti (2019)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes (2018)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2018)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Civilisations (2018)
My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)
The Pulitzer At 100 (2017)
America in Color (2017)
America in Color (2017)
Chuck (2017)
Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017)
UConn: The March to Madness (2017)
The 5th Wave (2016)
Creed (2015)
Spotlight (2015)
Kareem: Minority of One (2015)
Finding Babel (2015)
Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Unity (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
BoJack Horseman (2014)
Clear History (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Rick and Morty (2013)
A Perfect Man (2013)
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013)
Fading Gigolo (2013)
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013)
The Butler (2013)
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
Drunk History (2013)
Ray Donovan (2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust (2013)
Movie 43 (2013)
Space Dive (2012)
Mental (2012)
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery (2012)
Goon (2012)
Hitler's G.I. Death Camp (2011)
The Curious Case of Curt Flood (2011)
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies (2011)
Portraits in Dramatic Time (2011)
Derek Jeter 3K (2011)
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice (2011)
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective (2011)
Bible's Buried Secrets (2011)
Runnin' Rebels of UNLV (2011)
A Poem Is... (2011)
America: The Story of Us (2010)
Salt (2010)
Broad Street Bullies (2010)
America: The Story of Us (2010)
Repo Men (2010)
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals (2010)
Every Day (2010)
Elbert Hubbard: An American Original (2009)
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins (2009)
Weapon X Mutant Files (2009)
Taking Woodstock (2009)
The Cove (2009)
Ted Williams (2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina (2009)
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times (2009)
Defiance (2008)
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football (2008)
Thrilla in Manila (2008)
The Defector (2008)
Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open (2008)
Barbaro (2008)
Constantine's Sword (2008)
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2008)
Chicago 10 (2008)
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (2008)
Operation Filmmaker (2008)
The Jewish Americans (2008)
Sputnik Mania (2007)
Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry (2007)
Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team (2007)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
The Ten (2007)
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush (2007)
24/7 (2007)
The Living Weapon (2007)
The Painted Veil (2006)
The Omen (2006)
The New Medicine (2006)
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Oil Storm (2005)
Living with Wolves (2005)
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship (2005)
Robot Chicken (2005)
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s (2003)
Spinning Boris (2003)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (2003)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi (2003)
Battle of the X-Planes (2003)
The Shakespeare Sessions (2003)
Young Dr. Freud (2002)
Iron and Beyond (2002)
:03 from Gold (2002)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
A Brilliant Madness (2002)
Ulysses S. Grant (2002)
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) (2002)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team (2002)
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' (2002)
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Hard Knocks (2001)
Shot Heard 'Round the World (2001)
Fatal Flood (2001)
Spring Forward (2000)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible (2000)
When It Was a Game 3 (2000)
Secrets of the Dead (2000)
Hamlet (2000)
RKO 281 (2000)
Scream 3 (2000)
The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships (1999)
The Hurricane (1999)
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games (1999)
Desert Blue (1999)
Decoding Nazi Secrets (1999)
Meltdown at Three Mile Island (1999)
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Babe Ruth (1998)
Since You've Been Gone (1998)
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal (1998)
Twilight (1998)
Surviving the Dust Bowl (1998)
Sphere (1998)
Mr. Miami Beach (1998)
Phantoms (1998)
Scream 2 (1997)
The View (1997)
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
The Daytrippers (1997)
His and Hers (1997)
CIA - America's Secret Warriors (1997)
Scream (1996)
Ransom (1996)
Big Night (1996)
The Sunshine Boys (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
Walking and Talking (1996)
Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History (1996)
Spirit of the Games (1996)
Party Girl (1995)
Mad Love (1995)
Denise Calls Up (1995)
Buffalo Girls (1995)
Two Billion Hearts (1995)
Mixed Nuts (1994)
Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
The Simpsons (1989)
American Experience (1988)
Nature (1982)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
NOVA (1974)
Rock & Roll
The Perfect Couple
The Guns of Christmas Past
NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet
Secrets of the Dead - Shroud of Christ?
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1967-10-04 (56 years old)
Birth NameIsaac Liev Schreiber
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States of America
RelationshipsNaomi Watts (2005-01-01 - 2016-01-01), Taylor Neisen
ChildrenKai Schreiber, Sasha Schreiber
FatherTell Schreiber
SiblingsPablo Schreiber
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsIsaac Liev Schreiber, 리브 슈라이버, Лев Шрайбер, リーヴ・シュレイバー, 李佛·薛伯, Λιβ Σράιμπερ, 列夫·施赖伯, 艾萨克·列夫·施赖伯, Лієв Шрайбер, אייזק לייב שרייבר, ליב שרייבר
AwardsFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Drama League Award, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Tony Awards
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