55 Facts About Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award as well as nominations for nine Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.

Liev Schreiber acted in the Wes Anderson films Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, and Asteroid City.

Liev Schreiber made his directorial film debut with Everything Is Illuminated.

Liev Schreiber made his Broadway debut in In the Summer House.

Liev Schreiber earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing Richard Roma in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross.

Liev Schreiber was Tony-nominated for the Eric Bogosian play Talk Radio, the Arthur Miller revival A View from the Bridge and the John Patrick Shanley revival Doubt.

Liev Schreiber reprised the role in the television film Ray Donovan: The Movie.

Liev Schreiber portrayed Orson Welles in the HBO film RKO 281, and Otto Frank in the Nat Geo miniseries A Small Light.

Isaac Liev Schreiber was born on October 4,1967, in San Francisco, California, the son of Heather Milgram, a painter, and Tell Schreiber, an actor and carpenter.

Liev Schreiber's father was Protestant and his mother is Jewish.

Liev Schreiber's mother, who is an aficionada of classical music and Russian literature, has said that she named Liev after her favorite Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, while his father has stated that Schreiber was named after the doctor who saved his mother's life.

Liev Schreiber's family nickname, adopted when Schreiber was a baby, is "Huggy".

When Liev Schreiber was one year old, his family moved to the unincorporated rural community of Winlaw, in the southern interior of British Columbia.

Liev Schreiber was then kidnapped back by his father, eventually leading to his mother gaining full custody of him.

Liev Schreiber has described his mother as a "far-out Socialist Labor Party hippie bohemian freak who hung out with William Burroughs".

Liev Schreiber was "a highly cultured eccentric" who earned a living by splitting her time between driving a cab and creating papier-mache puppets.

Liev Schreiber went on to attend Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he began his acting training at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, through the Five Colleges consortium.

Liev Schreiber later attended the Yale School of Drama, where he studied with Earle R Gister and starred in Charles Evered's The Size of the World, directed by Walton Jones.

Liev Schreiber received a master's degree in drama from Yale in 1992.

Liev Schreiber attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Liev Schreiber originally wanted to be a screenwriter, eventually settling on acting.

In 1992 Liev Schreiber acted in the comedic play Goodnight Desdemona by Ann-Marie MacDonald at the Classic Stage Company.

Liev Schreiber's first leading film roles in the Greg Mottola comedy-drama The Daytrippers and Nicole Holofcener's Walking and Talking were both released in 1996.

Liev Schreiber then played supporting roles in several studio films, including Ron Howard's 1996 remake of Ransom, the 1999 film The Hurricane, A Walk on the Moon, the 2000 film adaptation of Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke, and as a spy in The Sum of All Fears acting opposite Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman.

The 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, was another major film for Liev Schreiber, stirring some controversy as it opened during a heated presidential election cycle.

Liev Schreiber has narrated several documentaries, many of them aired as part of PBS series such as American Experience, Nova, and Secrets of the Dead from 2001 to 2011.

Liev Schreiber is the voice behind the television commercials for Infiniti.

In 2006, Liev Schreiber was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Liev Schreiber played Charlie Townsend in the 2006 film The Painted Veil, starring opposite Watts and Edward Norton.

Liev Schreiber joined the cast on January 18,2007, and shot a four-episode arc.

Liev Schreiber played a social worker in the HBO film Lackawanna Blues based on the play of the same name by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Liev Schreiber acted opposite S Epatha Merkerson, Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, Louis Gossett Jr.

Liev Schreiber appeared in the Broadway revival of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, portraying shock jock Barry Champlain.

Late in 2008, Liev Schreiber portrayed Jewish resistance fighter Zus Bielski in the film Defiance, alongside Daniel Craig.

In 2009, Liev Schreiber played the mutant supervillain Victor Creed in the Marvel Comics film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

In 2009 Liev Schreiber took the role of the head of the CIA in the action thriller film Salt starring Angelina Jolie which was a commercial box office hit.

Liev Schreiber is the voice of HBO's Sports of the 20th Century documentaries.

Liev Schreiber narrated the History Channel specials Ape to Man, The Lost Kennedy Home Movies, and America: The Story of Us.

Liev Schreiber has been the narrator in HBO's Hard Knocks for every season, except for the 2007 season when Paul Rudd filled that role, with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Liev Schreiber provided the voiceover for the 2018 Kia Stinger GT commercial.

Once more, Liev Schreiber narrated for the HBO series in 2014 for the 2014 NHL Winter Classic, which showcased the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Detroit Red Wings at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Liev Schreiber acted as a writer, director and producer on the series.

Liev Schreiber narrated Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle, a three-hour documentary that premiered on PBS in October 2013.

Liev Schreiber played The Boston Globe journalist Martin Baron in the drama film Spotlight.

Liev Schreiber won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture alongside Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci.

Liev Schreiber returned to Broadway playing the Machiavellian seducer Vicomte de Valmont acting alongside Janet McTeer in the 2016 revival Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

In 2017, Liev Schreiber was cast to voice the Storm King, the main antagonist in the 2017 film My Little Pony: The Movie, based on the show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Liev Schreiber co-wrote the script along with the director David Hollander.

Liev Schreiber worked on a film adaptation of Across the River and Into the Trees.

In 2024, Liev Schreiber returned to Broadway in the revival of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company and directed by Scott Ellis.

Liev Schreiber was in a relationship with British actress Naomi Watts.

Liev Schreiber has been in a relationship with Taylor Neisen since 2017.

Liev Schreiber has lived in a loft apartment in Noho, in Lower Manhattan in New York City, that was shown in Architectural Digest.

On July 6,2022, Liev Schreiber became the ambassador of United24, a fundraising platform for Ukraine in the field of medical care.

Liev Schreiber partnered with an organization called "Kidsafe" which had rescued over 10,000 women and children from war worn areas of Ukraine.