| Liev Schreiber  AKA Isaac Liev Schreiber
Born: 4-Oct-1967
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Actor, voiceover talent Liev Schreiber's parents divorced when he was a toddler, and the young boy went with his mother to New York. They faced a hardscrabble life for a few years, even living in an apartment with no electricity while she looked for work. He attended public schools for most of his education, where he was occasionally in trouble, but he transferred to a private Quaker school for his senior year.
It was at the Quakers' Friends Seminary that Schreiber first dabbled in acting, appearing in school plays. He studied drama at Yale and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and his first professional work was on Broadway, in a 1993 production of In the Summer House with Dianne Wiest. He made his film debut as the muscular transvestite serenaded by Adam Sandler in Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin, and Schreiber has since had a varied career, jumping nimbly from art-house roles to blockbuster parts to voice work. His smooth, precise voice has made him a natural for narration duties for American Experience, Triumph of Life, and the Discovery Channel's CIA: America's Secret Warriors.
He played Cotton Weary, the accused killer in Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3, played a scientist perplexed at the mysterious spacecraft in Sphere with Dustin Hoffman, worked to exonerate Hurricane Carter in Hurricane with Denzel Washington, played Orson Welles in the HBO drama RKO 281, and played the petty crook rehabilitated with a steady job in Spring Forward with Ned Beatty. He took the Laurence Harvey role in the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and the Gregory Peck role in the 2006 remake of The Omen.
Schreiber also wrote and directed Everything is Illuminated, starring Elijah Wood as a nebbish tchotchke-collector who seeks his roots through a bizarre journey to his grandfather's homeland. The movie is a very strange road trip, with a blind driver and a break-dancing Ukrainian boy, to an unexpected destination.
Schreiber's name is pronounced Lee-ehv (rhymes with Kiev), but his mother calls him 'Huggy'. His father was a stage actor who appeared in one obscure, very low-budget film, the 1976 version of The Keeper with Christopher Lee, in which the elder Schreiber played a private investigator trying to expose frightful happenings at an insane asylum. Father: Tell Schreiber (stage actor)
Mother: Heather Milgram (cab driver)
Brother: Pablo Schreiber (film actor)
Girlfriend: Naomi Watts (actress, together since 2004, two sons)
Son: Alexander Pete Schreiber (b. 26-Jul-2007, with Watts)
Son: Samuel Kai Schreiber (b. 13-Dec-2008, with Watts)
High School: Brooklyn Technical High School, New York City, NY (transferred)
High School: Friends Seminary High School, New York City, NY (1985)
University: BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (1988)
University: MFA Drama, Yale University (1992)
University: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Endorsement of Gap 2007
John Kerry for President
Tony 2005 for Glengarry Glen Ross
Risk Factors: Smoking, Aviophobia
TELEVISION
Ray Donovan Ray Donovan (2013-)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Michael Keppler (2007)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Everything Is Illuminated (3-Sep-2005)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (8-Dec-2018) [VOICE]
Isle of Dogs (15-Feb-2018) [VOICE]
Goon: Last of the Enforcers (17-Mar-2017)
The 5th Wave (14-Jan-2016)
Creed (25-Nov-2015)
Spotlight (3-Sep-2015)
Pawn Sacrifice (11-Sep-2014)
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (8-Oct-2013)
Fading Gigolo (7-Sep-2013)
Lee Daniels' The Butler (5-Aug-2013)
The Last Days on Mars (20-May-2013)
Movie 43 (1-Jan-2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (29-Aug-2012)
Mental (18-Aug-2012)
Goon (10-Sep-2011) · Ross Rhea
Salt (21-Jul-2010) · Ted Winter
Every Day (24-Apr-2010) · Ned
Repo Men (19-Mar-2010) · Frank
Taking Woodstock (16-May-2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (8-Apr-2009)
Defiance (31-Dec-2008) · Zus Bielski
Love in the Time of Cholera (4-Oct-2007) · Lotario Thugut
Constantine's Sword (24-Jun-2007) [VOICE]
The Ten (19-Jan-2007) · Ray Johnson
Chicago 10 (18-Jan-2007) [VOICE]
Operation Filmmaker (Jan-2007) · Himself
The Painted Veil (20-Dec-2006) · Charlie Townsend
The Omen (6-Jun-2006) · Robert Thorn
Lackawanna Blues (26-Jan-2005)
The Manchurian Candidate (22-Jul-2004)
Spinning Boris (23-Oct-2003)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (18-May-2003)
The Sum of All Fears (29-May-2002) · John Clark
Kate & Leopold (25-Dec-2001)
Scream 3 (4-Feb-2000) · Cotton Weary
Hamlet (24-Jan-2000) · Laertes
RKO 281 (20-Nov-1999)
Jakob the Liar (24-Sep-1999) · Mischa
The Hurricane (17-Sep-1999) · Sam
Spring Forward (Sep-1999) · Paul
A Walk on the Moon (29-Jan-1999) · Marty Kantrowitz
Desert Blue (12-Sep-1998) · Mickey Moonday [VOICE]
Since You've Been Gone (18-Apr-1998) · Fred Linderhoff
Twilight (6-Mar-1998) · Jeff Willis
Sphere (13-Feb-1998) · Ted
Phantoms (23-Jan-1998) · Deputy Stu Wargle
Scream 2 (12-Dec-1997)
Scream (20-Dec-1996) · Cotton Weary
Ransom (8-Nov-1996) · Clark Barnes
Big Night (24-Jan-1996) · Leo
The Daytrippers (Jan-1996)
Walking and Talking (Jan-1996) · Andrew
Party Girl (9-Jun-1995) · Nigel
Mad Love (26-May-1995)
Denise Calls Up (17-May-1995)
Buffalo Girls (30-Apr-1995)
The Sunshine Boys (1995) · Richard Gregg
Mixed Nuts (21-Dec-1994)
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