Liev Schreiber

Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor who also works as a director, screenwriter and producer. He studied at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, earned a master's degree in drama from Yale in 1992, and also trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Starting out in independent films in the mid-1990s, he went on to appear in the first three Scream films, Ransom, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Salt and Spotlight, and has worked repeatedly with Wes Anderson, on Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch and Asteroid City. In 2005 he released Everything Is Illuminated, his first feature as a director, which he also wrote.

On stage, his performance in the 2005 Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross won him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and he later earned three more Tony nominations, for Talk Radio, A View from the Bridge and Doubt.

On television, he starred from 2013 as the title character of the Showtime series Ray Donovan, also working on the show as a writer, director and producer. After the series ended in 2020, he returned to the role in a 2022 concluding film, whose script he co-wrote with the director. The role brought him three Primetime Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations. He also played Orson Welles in the HBO film RKO 281 and Otto Frank in the 2023 miniseries A Small Light. In 2022 he became an ambassador for United24, a fundraising platform for Ukraine.