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Liev Schreiber
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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.
Known For
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Saturday Night Live
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Simpsons
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The Daily Show
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Rick and Morty
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Drunk History
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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BoJack Horseman
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Robot Chicken
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Nature
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Creed
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Don't Look Up
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The French Dispatch
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Movie 43
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Mad Love
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Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
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The Butler
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Isle of Dogs
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Scream 3
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil
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Scream
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Scream 2
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Asteroid City
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The 5th Wave
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Twilight
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Spirit of the Games
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8FAkwIBnd5eGlSJBrJfJVMWAbhI.jpg)
My Little Pony: The Movie
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kFShhVUU5LfGmLvo9OJGM8dyDFL.jpg)
Ransom
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A Small Light
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/z4A6mFOLTMZAhCSPRyrtzG0SPbd.jpg)
A Rainy Day in New York
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/emio9KDrLXqqX4wXa4YTacBQXG.jpg)
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4geRW80ZPX3v6HTE0p4ntXQDvZq.jpg)
Hard Knocks
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/g2saqlXGEE9YhsE0VfudnPEoeIg.jpg)
Goon
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5IMr0L4BoONvN5i9kyVd0zGww3L.jpg)
Sphere
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Repo Men
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The Sum of All Fears
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The Hurricane
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Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Golda
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Ted Williams
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The Manchurian Candidate
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/eP9h6j8kNXTIaYINnOee2Kmqv86.jpg)
24/7
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Spinning Boris
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Salt
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/z6yNHcQOveRuAohuejdDFQDEBSs.jpg)
Defiance
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yj8LbTju1p7CUJg7US2unSBk33s.jpg)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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UConn: The March to Madness
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The Perfect Couple
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The Last Days on Mars
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Hard Knocks: In Season
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Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
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Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
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:03 from Gold
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24/7: Road to the NHL Winter Classic
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Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
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Ray Donovan
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kf1Qq9b32jn4umll9qD2ue5ftnh.jpg)
The Omen
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The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
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Road to the Winter Classic
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Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
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Ray Donovan: The Movie
Production Credits
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