Biography
Liev Schreiber was a highly respected stage and screen actor whose deep voice and serious countenance lent itself well to playing intense, dramatic roles. He came to prominence in the late 1990s after a long string of performances in indie features, and gained widespread notice as town loner and red herring Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's "Scream" (1996) and its two sequels. The exposure helped usher him into more mainstream projects, such the …
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Career Milestones
| Performed for a year at the Edinburgh Festival | ||
| Raised on NYC's Lower East Side | ||
1993 | Made Broadway debut in "In the Summer House" co-starring Dianne Wiest | |
1994 | Cast as a drag queen in Nora Ephron's "Mixed Nuts"; again co-starring Parker Posey | |
1994 | Made film acting debut playing a British bouncer opposite Parker Posey in "Party Girl" | |
1994 | TV-movie debut "A Silent Betrayal" (CBS) | |
1995 | Acted in the CBS TV miniseries "Buffalo Girls" | |
1995 | Co-starred in the indie film "Denise Calls Up" | |
1996 | Appeared in third film with Posey, "The Daytrippers"; played her garrulous writer-boyfriend | |
1996 | Originated role of accused killer Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's "Scream" | |
1996 | Played Anne Heche's ex-beau in "Walking and Talking" | |
1996 | Portrayed one of the kidnappers in Ron Howard's "Ransom" | |
1997 | Portrayed an astrophysicist in Barry Levinson's "Sphere" | |
1997 | Reprised role as Cotton Weary in Craven's "Scream 2" | |
1998 | Appeared as Reese Witherspoon's boyfriend in Robert Benton's "Twilight" | |
1998 | Cast as the villain Iachimo and the god Jupiter in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" performed in NYC's Central Park | |
1998 | Offered amusing turn as the wigged-out deputy in "Phantoms," adapted by Dean Koontz from his novel | |
1999 | Co-starred in "Spring Forward," Tom Gilroy's directorial debut; served as associate producer; made directorial debut filming a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the film | |
1999 | Played a man whose wife engages in an affair in the 1960s-set "A Walk on the Moon" | |
1999 | Portrayed Orson Welles in the HBO movie "RKO 281," about the making of "Citizen Kane"; gained 25 pounds for the role and earned an Emmy nomination | |
2000 | Landed featured role in "Pay It Forward," starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt | |
2000 | Reprised Cotton Weary for "Scream 3" | |
2000 | Returned to Broadway, co-starring with Juliette Binoche in a revival of "Betrayal" | |
2001 | Co-starred opposite Jeanne Tripplehorn in "Dial 9 for Love" | |
2001 | Played Iago to Keith David's Othello in a New York Shakespeare Festival production off-Broadway | |
2002 | Starred opposite Ben Affleck in "The Sum of All Fears," based on the Tom Clancy novels about CIA analyst Jack Ryan | |
2003 | Starred in the TV movie "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" (CBS) | |
2004 | Starred as a U.S. soldier kidnapped by the enemy and brainwashed during the the Gulf War in "The Manchurian Candidate," directed by Jonathan Demme | |
2005 | Made screenwriting and directing debut with "Everything Is Illuminated" about a young Jewish American man's journey to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II | |
2005 | Offered a Tony award winning performance in "Glengarry Glen Ross," Joe Mantello's high-octane revival of David Mamet's play | |
2005 | Starred in the HBO original movie "Lackawanna Blues" based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson autobiographical one man show | |
2006 | Co-starred in John Curran's adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel "The Painted Veil" | |
2006 | Co-starred with Julia Stiles in the remake of "The Omen" taking over the role originally played by Gregory Peck | |
2007 | Cast in the Broadway production of Eric Bogosian's "Talk Radio"; earned a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play | |
2007 | Joined the cast of "CSI" (CBS) with a recurring four-episode arc playing a seasoned CSI veteran | |
2008 | Co-starred in Edward Zwick's World War II drama "Defiance" | |
2009 | Cast as Sabretooth opposite Hugh Jackman in the Marvel Comics film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" | |
2009 | Played a transvestite in Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" | |
2010 | Appeared in the action thriller "Salt," starring Angelina Jolie in the title role as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy | |
2010 | Co-starred in the futuristic thriller "Repo Men" | |
2010 | Co-starred with Scarlett Johansson in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge"; earned a Tony Award nomination for Leading Actor in a Play | |
2012 | Cast alongside Seann William Scott in the sport comedy "Goon" | |
Awards
1999 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in RKO 281 |
2000 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In a Miniseries or Movie in RKO 281 |
2005 | Tony Award for Actor (Featured Role--Play) |
2010 | MTV Movie Award for Best Fight in X-Men Origins: Wolverine |