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Liev Schreiber

Actor

Liev Schreiber

  • Born: 4 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Estimated net worth: $40 million

Liev Schreiber is an American actor, director, and screenwriter known for his versatile performances across various genres. He gained prominence for roles in films such as 'Spotlight' and 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine.' His deep voice and intense acting style…

About Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber is an American actor, director, and screenwriter known for his versatile performances across various genres. He gained prominence for roles in films such as 'Spotlight' and 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine.' His deep voice and intense acting style have made him a respected figure in both film and television, including his notable work in 'Ray Donovan.'

Born
4 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
Height
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Spouses
Naomi Watts (2005-2016)
Children
2 (Alexander Schreiber, Samuel Schreiber)
Parents
Tell Schreiber, Heather Schreiber
Estimated net worth
$40 million

Fun facts about Liev Schreiber

  • Liev Schreiber is also a talented director and has directed several films, including 'Everything is Illuminated.'
  • He provided the voice for the character of the narrator in the animated series 'The Lion Guard.'

Famous Liev Schreiber quotes

“I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m doing it well.”
Spotlight, 2015
“You can’t escape the past.”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009
“You have to be willing to fail.”
The Manchurian Candidate, 2004

Liev Schreiber filmography

Cast (199)

YearTitleCharacterRating
2027Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse MovieWilson Fisk (voice)
2026Nocturne TVJonah Lynn
2026Born to Bowl TVNarrator (voice)7.5
2025The American Revolution TVSamuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)5.9
2025Splinter Cell: Deathwatch TVSam Fisher (voice)6.8
2025They Fight with Cameras MovieUnknown character
2025Caught Stealing MovieLipa6.8
2025The Last Twins MovieNarrator10.0
2024Undisputed MovieSelf8.0
2024Broadway's Leading Men: A Musical Celebration MovieSelf
Show 189 more credits
YearTitleCharacterRating
2024The Perfect Couple TVTag Winbury6.7
2024Violent Earth TVSelf - Host7.0
2023Meeting Zelenskyy MovieSelf
2023Across the River and into the Trees MovieColonel Richard Cantwell6.9
2023Golda MovieHenry Kissinger6.3
2023Command Z TVKohlberg Pryce5.2
2023Asteroid City MovieJ.J. Kellogg6.5
2023A Small Light TVOtto Frank8.0
2022The Conspiracy MovieUnknown character
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie MovieRay Donovan6.8
2021Don't Look Up MovieBash Narrator (voice)7.1
2021Hard Knocks: In Season TVSelf - Narrator (voice)6.9
2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun MovieTalk Show Host7.0
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age MovieSelf
2020Human Capital MovieDrew Hagel5.7
2019Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season MovieNarrator (voice)6.6
2019A Rainy Day in New York MovieRoland Pollard6.5
2019Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People MovieJoseph Pulitzer (voice)5.3
2019The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti MovieNarrator7.0
2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse MovieWilson Fisk (voice)8.4
2018Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes MovieNarrator6.1
2018Firing Line with Margaret Hoover TVSelf8.0
2018Civilisations TVNarrator6.6
2018Isle of Dogs MovieSpots (voice)7.8
2017My Little Pony: The Movie MovieThe Storm King (voice)7.3
2017The Pulitzer At 100 MovieSelf6.0
2017America in Color TVSelf - Narrator (voice)7.8
2017Chuck MovieChuck Wepner6.3
2017Goon: Last of the Enforcers MovieRoss Rhea5.7
2017UConn: The March to Madness TVUnknown character10.0
2016Finding Babel MovieSelf - Isaac Babel (voice)6.3
2016The 5th Wave MovieColonel Vosch6.0
2015Creed MovieHBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)7.4
2015Spotlight MovieMarty Baron7.8
2015Kareem: Minority of One MovieNarrator (voice)7.2
2015Pawn Sacrifice MovieBoris Spassky6.7
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TVSelf6.1
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TVSelf - Guest6.1
2015Unity MovieNarrator (voice)7.5
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors TVSelf4.2
2014BoJack Horseman TVCopernicus (Voice)8.5
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers TVSelf - Guest5.1
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TVSelf - Guest5.8
2013Rick and Morty TVFear Hole Demon (voice)8.7
2013A Perfect Man MovieJames4.0
2013Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle TVNarrator (voice)7.5
2013Fading Gigolo MovieDovi5.8
2013Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve MovieNarrator (voice)6.8
2013The Butler MovieLyndon B. Johnson7.3
2013The Last Days on Mars MovieVincent Campbell5.5
2013Clear History MovieTibor (uncredited)6.1
2013Drunk History TVVictor Lustig6.9
2013Ray Donovan TVRay Donovan7.5
2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist MovieBobby Lincoln6.6
2013Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust MovieNarrator (voice)
2013Movie 43 MovieRobert (segment "Homeschooled")4.7
2012Mental MovieTrevor Blundell5.6
2012Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery MovieUnknown character4.5
2012Goon MovieRoss Rhea6.4
2011The Curious Case of Curt Flood MovieNarrator8.0
2011The Lost Kennedy Home Movies MovieHimself - Narrator (voice)
2011Portraits in Dramatic Time MovieUnknown character8.0
2011McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice MovieNarrator6.3
2011Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective MovieSelf7.7
2011Runnin' Rebels of UNLV MovieNarrator6.7
2010Road to the NHL Winter Classic TVNarrator10.0
2010America: The Story of Us MovieHimself - Narrator6.4
2010Salt MovieTheodore Winter6.4
2010Broad Street Bullies Movie(narrator)5.9
2010America: The Story of Us TVSelf - Narrator (voice)8.2
2010Repo Men MovieFrank6.3
2010Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals MovieNarrator (voice)7.8
2010Every Day MovieNed5.1
2009Weapon X Mutant Files MovieSelf7.1
2009Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins MovieSelf6.2
2009Taking Woodstock MovieVilma6.2
2009Ted Williams MovieNarrator
2009X-Men Origins: Wolverine MovieVictor Creed6.3
2009Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina MovieNarrator9.0
2009Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times MovieNarrator
2008Defiance MovieZus Bielski6.8
2008Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football MovieNarrator9.0
2008Thrilla in Manila MovieNarrator7.8
2008The Defector MovieNarrator
2008Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open MovieSelf - Host6.0
2008Barbaro MovieNarrator
2008Chicago 10 MovieWilliam Kunstler (voice)5.8
2008Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed MovieNarrator7.0
2008Operation Filmmaker MovieSelf6.5
2008The Jewish Americans TVSelf - Narrator (voice)1.0
2007Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry MovieNarrator6.2
2007Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team MovieNarrator
2007Love in the Time of Cholera MovieLotario Thurgot6.6
2007Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure MovieNarrator6.6
2007The Ten MovieRay Johnson4.8
2007Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush MovieSelf (Narrator)8.3
2007Sputnik Mania MovieNarrator7.0
200724/7 TVUnknown character7.0
2007Raptor Force MovieNarrator
2007The Living Weapon MovieUnknown character
2006The Painted Veil MovieCharlie Townsend7.3
2006The Omen MovieRobert Thorn5.6
2006The New Medicine MovieNarrator
2005Rebels on the Run: The Rise and Fall of UNLV Basketball MovieNarrator
2005Oil Storm MovieHimself - Narrator (voice)7.0
2005Living with Wolves Movienarrator7.0
2005Seamless MovieSelf5.3
2005Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship MovieSelf - Narrator (voice)10.0
2005Robot Chicken TVIron Man / King Triton (Voice)7.6
2005Lackawanna Blues MovieUlysses Ford5.9
2004Secrets of the Dead: D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict MovieNarrator
2004The Manchurian Candidate MovieCongressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)6.5
2003Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s MovieSelf6.5
2003Spinning Boris MovieJoe Shumate6.1
2003Hitler: The Rise of Evil TVErnst Hanfstaengl7.1
2003Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi MovieUnknown character8.0
2003NOVA-Lost Treasures of Tibet MovieSelf - Narrator(voice)
2003Battle of the X-Planes MovieNarrator
2003The Shakespeare Sessions MovieUnknown character8.5
2002Young Dr. Freud MovieSigmund Freud (Voice)6.2
2002Iron and Beyond MovieSelf - Narrator (voice)6.4
2002:03 from Gold MovieNarrator (voice)9.0
2002The Sum of All Fears MovieJohn Clark6.4
2002A Brilliant Madness MovieNarrator (voice)8.0
2002Ulysses S. Grant MovieNarrator9.0
2002American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) MovieNarrator
2002Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies MovieNarrator
2002Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team MovieSelf - Narrator9.0
2002Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' MovieSelf - Narrator (voice)7.1
2001Kate & Leopold MovieStuart Besser6.4
2001Hard Knocks TVSelf - Narrator (voice)7.9
2001Hard Knocks TVSelf - Narrator7.9
2001Shot Heard 'Round the World MovieNarrator7.0
2001Fatal Flood MovieNarrator (voice)
2000Spring Forward MoviePaul6.6
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TVMichael Keppler7.6
2000Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible MovieNarrator8.0
2000When It Was a Game 3 MovieNarrator (voice)9.5
2000Secrets of the Dead TVNarrator (voice)6.4
2000Hamlet MovieLaertes5.8
2000Scream 3 MovieCotton Weary6.0
1999RKO 281 MovieOrson Welles6.5
1999The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships MovieNarrator10.0
1999The Hurricane MovieSam Chaiton7.4
1999Jakob the Liar MovieMischa6.7
1999Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games MovieNarrator (voice)7.8
1999Desert Blue MovieMickey Moonday (voice)5.7
1999Decoding Nazi Secrets MovieHimself - Narrator7.0
1999Meltdown at Three Mile Island MovieSelf - Narrator6.5
1999A Walk on the Moon MovieMarty Kantrowitz6.1
1998Babe Ruth MovieHimself - Narrator (voice)6.9
1998Since You've Been Gone MovieFred Linderhoff4.7
1998City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal MovieHimself-Narrator7.0
1998Twilight MovieJeff Willis6.1
1998Surviving the Dust Bowl MovieNarrator (voice)9.0
1998Sphere MovieDr. Ted Fielding6.1
1998Mr. Miami Beach MovieNarrator
1998Phantoms MovieDeputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle5.6
1997Scream 2 MovieCotton Weary6.5
1997The View TVSelf4.3
1997Sports on the Silver Screen MovieSelf - Narrator (voice)9.0
1997The Daytrippers MovieCarl Petrovic6.6
1997Baggage MovieUnknown character8.0
1997His and Hers MovieGlenn4.8
1996Scream MovieCotton Weary7.4
1996Ransom MovieClark Barnes6.7
1996Big Night MovieLeo7.0
1996The Sunshine Boys MovieRicky Gregg5.0
1996The Daily Show TVSelf6.4
1996The Daily Show TVSelf, Bank Manager6.4
1996Walking and Talking MovieAndrew6.1
1996Spirit of the Games MovieNarrator5.0
1995Party Girl MovieNigel6.6
1995Mad Love MovieSalesman5.2
1995Denise Calls Up MovieJerry Heckerman6.0
1995Buffalo Girls MovieOgden6.5
1995Two Billion Hearts MovieNarrator7.6
1994Mixed Nuts MovieChris5.4
1994Janek: The Silent Betrayal MovieOwens3.3
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien TVSelf - Guest7.3
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno TVUnknown character5.3
1989The Simpsons TV"Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice)8.0
1988American Experience TVNarrator (voice)6.5
1982Nature TVNarrator (voice)7.9
1975Saturday Night Live TVSelf - Host6.9
1975Saturday Night Live TVSelf - Cameo (uncredited)6.9
1974NOVA TVUnknown character7.1
1974NOVA TVNarrator (voice)7.1
TBAThe Guns of Christmas Past MovieEbb

Crew (16)

YearTitleRoleRating
2026Nocturne TVExecutive Producer · Production
2025Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story MovieExecutive Producer · Production
2023Meeting Zelenskyy MovieDirector · Directing
2023Rule of Two Walls MovieExecutive Producer · Production
2022Ukrainians in Exile MovieExecutive Producer · Production5.3
Show 11 more credits
YearTitleRoleRating
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie MovieWriter · Writing6.8
2022Ray Donovan: The Movie MovieExecutive Producer · Production6.8
2020Human Capital MovieProducer · Production5.7
2017Chuck MovieProducer · Production6.3
2017Chuck MovieScreenplay · Writing6.3
2013Ray Donovan TVDirector · Directing7.5
2013Ray Donovan TVWriter · Writing7.5
2009The Cove MovieThanks · Crew8.0
2005Everything Is Illuminated MovieDirector · Directing7.2
2005Everything Is Illuminated MovieScreenplay · Writing7.2
2000Spring Forward MovieAssociate Producer · Production6.6

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Questions about Liev Schreiber

What are some of Liev Schreiber's most successful films?

Liev Schreiber has starred in several successful films, including 'Spotlight,' 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' and 'The Manchurian Candidate.' His performances have garnered critical acclaim, contributing to his reputation in Hollywood.

Has Liev Schreiber won any major awards?

Yes, Liev Schreiber has received multiple prestigious awards, including a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for 'Glengarry Glen Ross' and nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for his work in television.

What was Liev Schreiber's first film?

Liev Schreiber made his film debut in 'The Killing Fields' (1984) when he was just a teenager. This role marked the beginning of his successful acting career.

What is Liev Schreiber known for in his acting style?

Liev Schreiber is known for his intense and commanding performances, often portraying complex characters. His deep voice and strong physical presence contribute to his distinctive acting style.

What television series is Liev Schreiber famous for?

Liev Schreiber is widely recognized for his leading role in the television series 'Ray Donovan,' where he played the title character from 2013 to 2020, earning critical acclaim for his performance.

What is Liev Schreiber's estimated net worth?

Liev Schreiber's estimated net worth is around $40 million, reflecting his successful career in acting, directing, and screenwriting.

Who are Liev Schreiber's parents?

Liev Schreiber's parents are Tell Schreiber and Heather Schreiber. They have played an essential role in his life and career development.

How many children does Liev Schreiber have?

Liev Schreiber has two children, Alexander and Samuel, with his former partner Naomi Watts. They co-parent their children amicably following their separation.