Cast & creator
Liev Schreiber
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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.
Also known as: Isaac Liev Schreiber
168
film credits
48
television credits
200
1974–2027 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (216)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Simpsons
"Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996The Daily Show
Self, Bank Manager
1996
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Michael Keppler
2000
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Rick and Morty
Fear Hole Demon (voice)
2013
The View
Self
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
NOVA
1974NOVA
Narrator (voice)
1974
Robot Chicken
Iron Man / King Triton (Voice)
2005
BoJack Horseman
Copernicus (Voice)
2014
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
Ray Donovan
Ray Donovan
2013Ray Donovan
Director
2013Ray Donovan
Writer
2013
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Wilson Fisk (voice)
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
2018
Drunk History
Victor Lustig
2013
Secrets of the Dead
Narrator (voice)
2000
Scream
Cotton Weary
1996
Nocturne
Jonah Lynn
2026Nocturne
Executive Producer
2026
Isle of Dogs
Spots (voice)
2018
Caught Stealing
Lipa
2025
Don't Look Up
Bash Narrator (voice)
2021
Creed
HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
2015
Spotlight
Marty Baron
2015
The Sum of All Fears
John Clark
2002
Hard Knocks
Self - Narrator (voice)
2001Hard Knocks
Self - Narrator
2001
Scream 2
Cotton Weary
1997
The 5th Wave
Colonel Vosch
2016
A Small Light
Otto Frank
2023
Asteroid City
J.J. Kellogg
2023
The Perfect Couple
Tag Winbury
2024
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Talk Show Host
2021
The American Revolution
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
2025
Scream 3
Cotton Weary
2000
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Ernst Hanfstaengl
2003
Salt
Theodore Winter
2010
Command Z
Kohlberg Pryce
2023
Sphere
Dr. Ted Fielding
1998
My Little Pony: The Movie
The Storm King (voice)
2017
Movie 43
Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
2013
The Hurricane
Sam Chaiton
1999
The Jewish Americans
Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
America: The Story of Us
Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Sam Fisher (voice)
2025
Pawn Sacrifice
Boris Spassky
2015
The Butler
Lyndon B. Johnson
2013
Repo Men
Frank
2010
Kate & Leopold
Stuart Besser
2001
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Wilson Fisk (voice)
2027
The Omen
Robert Thorn
2006
America in Color
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
The Manchurian Candidate
Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
2004
The Painted Veil
Charlie Townsend
2006
Ransom
Clark Barnes
1996
Clear History
Tibor (uncredited)
2013
Defiance
Zus Bielski
2008
Taking Woodstock
Vilma
2009
Mixed Nuts
Chris
1994
Human Capital
Drew Hagel
2020Human Capital
Producer
2020
Hard Knocks: In Season
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Love in the Time of Cholera
Lotario Thurgot
2007
The Last Days on Mars
Vincent Campbell
2013
Goon
Ross Rhea
2012
Road to the NHL Winter Classic
Narrator
2010
24/7
2007
Jakob the Liar
Mischa
1999
Civilisations
Narrator
2018
A Walk on the Moon
Marty Kantrowitz
1999
Fading Gigolo
Dovi
2013
Big Night
Leo
1996
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Narrator (voice)
2013
Ray Donovan: The Movie
Ray Donovan
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie
Writer
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie
Executive Producer
2022
Phantoms
Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
1998
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Ross Rhea
2017
The Cove
Thanks
2009
Golda
Henry Kissinger
2023
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Bobby Lincoln
2013
Twilight
Jeff Willis
1998
The Daytrippers
Carl Petrovic
1997
Born to Bowl
Narrator (voice)
2026
Chuck
Chuck Wepner
2017Chuck
Screenplay
2017Chuck
Producer
2017
Party Girl
Nigel
1995
The Ten
Ray Johnson
2007
Everything Is Illuminated
Director
2005Everything Is Illuminated
Screenplay
2005
Across the River and into the Trees
Colonel Richard Cantwell
2023
Mad Love
Salesman
1995
Lackawanna Blues
Ulysses Ford
2005
Unity
Narrator (voice)
2015
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self - Narrator (voice)
1997
Since You've Been Gone
Fred Linderhoff
1998
Every Day
Ned
2010
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Narrator
2007
Desert Blue
Mickey Moonday (voice)
1999
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
2021
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Self
2011
The Sunshine Boys
Ricky Gregg
1996
Chicago 10
William Kunstler (voice)
2008
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
Mental
Trevor Blundell
2012
Violent Earth
Self - Host
2024
RKO 281
Orson Welles
1999
Hamlet
Laertes
2000
The Pulitzer At 100
Self
2017
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
Self - Narrator (voice)
2002
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Victor Creed
2009
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
2019
Undisputed
Self
2024
Seamless
Self
2005
Denise Calls Up
Jerry Heckerman
1995
Ted Williams
Narrator
2009
Iron and Beyond
Self - Narrator (voice)
2002
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
Narrator (voice)
2010
Weapon X Mutant Files
Self
2009
Battle of the X-Planes
Narrator
2003
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
Narrator
2018
A Perfect Man
James
2013
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Fatal Flood
Narrator (voice)
2001
Ulysses S. Grant
Narrator
2002
Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
Narrator
2007
Spinning Boris
Joe Shumate
2003
Buffalo Girls
Ogden
1995
Spirit of the Games
Narrator
1996
Walking and Talking
Andrew
1996
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Narrator (voice)
1998Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Owens
1994Baggage
1997
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
Himself-Narrator
1998
Shot Heard 'Round the World
Narrator
2001
America: The Story of Us
Himself - Narrator
2010
Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration
Self
2024
Rule of Two Walls
Executive Producer
2023
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
Self
2009
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
Narrator
2000
The Defector
Narrator
2008
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
Narrator (voice)
1999When It Was a Game 3
Narrator (voice)
2000
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Narrator
2008
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship
Self - Narrator (voice)
2005Runnin' Rebels of UNLV
Narrator
2011
Kareem: Minority of One
Narrator (voice)
2015
Raptor Force
Narrator
2007
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Self - Narrator
1999
Two Billion Hearts
Narrator
1995
UConn: The March to Madness
2017The Shakespeare Sessions
2003Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
Self (Narrator)
2007
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
Narrator (voice)
2019
Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi
2003
Secrets of the Dead: D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict
Narrator
2004
The Conspiracy
2022
Meeting Zelenskyy
Self
2023Meeting Zelenskyy
Director
2023
Spring Forward
Paul
2000Spring Forward
Associate Producer
2000
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
Executive Producer
2025
Operation Filmmaker
Self
2008
The Last Twins
Narrator
2025
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
Narrator
2019
Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open
Self - Host
2008
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
Narrator (voice)
2013
:03 from Gold
Narrator (voice)
2002
Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry
Narrator
2007
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
Narrator
2011
Barbaro
Narrator
2008American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
Narrator
2002
Thrilla in Manila
Narrator
2008
Babe Ruth
Himself - Narrator (voice)
1998
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Self - Narrator
2002
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
Narrator
2008The Guns of Christmas Past
Ebb
His and Hers
Glenn
1997
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
Narrator (voice)
2013
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
2012They Fight with Cameras
2025
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
Narrator
2011
Finding Babel
Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
2016
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
Narrator
2009
Mr. Miami Beach
Narrator
1998
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
Self
2003
NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet
Self - Narrator(voice)
2003Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
Narrator
2002
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2011
A Brilliant Madness
Narrator (voice)
2002
Young Dr. Freud
Sigmund Freud (Voice)
2002
The New Medicine
Narrator
2006
Living with Wolves
narrator
2005
Sputnik Mania
Narrator
2007
Rebels on the Run: The Rise and Fall of UNLV Basketball
Narrator
2005
Ukrainians in Exile
Executive Producer
2022
The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships
Narrator
1999Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
Narrator
2009Decoding Nazi Secrets
Himself - Narrator
1999
Oil Storm
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2005The Living Weapon
2007
A Rainy Day in New York
Roland Pollard
2019
Broad Street Bullies
(narrator)
2010