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
Scream 2
(1997)
Cotton Weary
Scream
(1996)
Cotton Weary
Don't Look Up
(2021)
Bash Narrator (voice)
Movie 43
(2013)
Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
(2018)
Wilson Fisk (voice)
Isle of Dogs
(2018)
Spots (voice)
Creed
(2015)
HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
Spotlight
(2015)
Marty Baron
Salt
(2010)
Theodore Winter
Asteroid City
(2023)
J.J. Kellogg
The 5th Wave
(2016)
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
Scream 3
(2000)
Cotton Weary
The Omen
(2006)
Robert Thorn
The French Dispatch
(2021)
Talk Show Host
My Little Pony: The Movie
(2017)
The Storm King (voice)
The Sum of All Fears
(2002)
John Clark
Full Filmography
Acting
Mixed Nuts
(1994)
Chris
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
(1994)
Owens
Two Billion Hearts
(1995)
Narrator
Denise Calls Up
(1995)
Jerry Heckerman
Buffalo Girls
(1995)
Ogden
Mad Love
(1995)
Salesman
Party Girl
(1995)
Nigel
Scream
(1996)
Cotton Weary
Ransom
(1996)
Clark Barnes
Walking and Talking
(1996)
Andrew
The Sunshine Boys
(1996)
Ricky Gregg
Spirit of the Games
(1996)
Narrator
Big Night
(1996)
Leo
Scream 2
(1997)
Cotton Weary
Sports on the Silver Screen
(1997)
Self - Narrator (voice)
His and Hers
(1997)
Glenn
The Daytrippers
(1997)
Carl Petrovic
Since You've Been Gone
(1998)
Fred Linderhoff
Twilight
(1998)
Jeff Willis
Babe Ruth
(1998)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
(1998)
Himself-Narrator
Sphere
(1998)
Dr. Ted Fielding
Mr. Miami Beach
(1998)
Narrator
Phantoms
(1998)
Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
Surviving the Dust Bowl
(1998)
Narrator (voice)
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
(1999)
Self - Narrator
A Walk on the Moon
(1999)
Marty Kantrowitz
The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships
(1999)
Narrator
Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games
(1999)
Narrator (voice)
Jakob the Liar
(1999)
Mischa
The Hurricane
(1999)
Sam Chaiton
Desert Blue
(1999)
Mickey Moonday (voice)
Decoding Nazi Secrets
(1999)
Himself - Narrator
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
(2000)
Narrator
Hamlet
(2000)
Laertes
Scream 3
(2000)
Cotton Weary
Spring Forward
(2000)
Paul
RKO 281
(2000)
Orson Welles
Shot Heard 'Round the World
(2001)
Narrator
Fatal Flood
(2001)
Narrator (voice)
Kate & Leopold
(2001)
Stuart Besser
Iron and Beyond
(2002)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
(2002)
Self - Narrator
Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron'
(2002)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Young Dr. Freud
(2002)
Sigmund Freud (Voice)
:03 from Gold
(2002)
Narrator (voice)
The Sum of All Fears
(2002)
John Clark
Ulysses S. Grant
(2002)
Narrator
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
(2002)
Narrator
A Brilliant Madness
(2002)
Narrator (voice)
Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s
(2003)
Self
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
(2003)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Battle of the X-Planes
(2003)
Narrator
Spinning Boris
(2003)
Joe Shumate
The Shakespeare Sessions
(2003)
The Manchurian Candidate
(2004)
Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
Living with Wolves
(2005)
narrator
Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship
(2005)
Narrator
Oil Storm
(2005)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Lackawanna Blues
(2005)
Ulysses Ford
The Omen
(2006)
Robert Thorn
The Painted Veil
(2006)
Charlie Townsend
The New Medicine
(2006)
Narrator
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
(2007)
Self (Narrator)
Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
(2007)
Narrator
The Living Weapon
(2007)
Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry
(2007)
Narrator
The Ten
(2007)
Ray Johnson
Love in the Time of Cholera
(2007)
Lotario Thurgot
Thrilla in Manila
(2008)
Narrator
The Defector
(2008)
Narrator
Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open
(2008)
Host
Chicago 10
(2008)
William Kunstler (voice)
Defiance
(2008)
Zus Bielski
Operation Filmmaker
(2008)
Himself
Barbaro
(2008)
Narrator
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
(2008)
Narrator
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
(2008)
Narrator
Taking Woodstock
(2009)
Wilma
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
(2009)
Narrator
Ted Williams
(2009)
Narrator
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(2009)
Victor Creed
Weapon X Mutant Files
(2009)
Self
Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina
(2009)
Narrator
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
(2009)
Self
Every Day
(2010)
Ned
Salt
(2010)
Theodore Winter
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
(2010)
Narrator (voice)
Repo Men
(2010)
Frank
Broad Street Bullies
(2010)
(narrator)
America: The Story of Us
(2010)
Himself - Narrator
Runnin' Rebels of UNLV
(2011)
Narrator
The Curious Case of Curt Flood
(2011)
Narrator
McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice
(2011)
Narrator
The Lost Kennedy Home Movies
(2011)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
(2011)
Self
Portraits in Dramatic Time
(2011)
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
(2012)
Space Dive
(2012)
Himself - Narrator (US version)
Mental
(2012)
Trevor Blundell
Goon
(2012)
Ross Rhea
A Perfect Man
(2013)
James
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
(2013)
Narrator (voice)
Fading Gigolo
(2013)
Dovi
The Last Days on Mars
(2013)
Vincent Campbell
The Butler
(2013)
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(2013)
Bobby Lincoln
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
(2013)
Narrator (voice)
Movie 43
(2013)
Robert (segment "Homeschooled")
Clear History
(2014)
Tibor (uncredited)
Kareem: Minority of One
(2015)
Narrator (voice)
Creed
(2015)
HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice)
Unity
(2015)
Narrator (voice)
Spotlight
(2015)
Marty Baron
Pawn Sacrifice
(2015)
Boris Spassky
Finding Babel
(2015)
Isaac Babel (voice)
The 5th Wave
(2016)
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
The Pulitzer At 100
(2017)
Self
My Little Pony: The Movie
(2017)
The Storm King (voice)
Chuck
(2017)
Chuck Wepner
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
(2017)
Ross Rhea
America in Color
(2017)
Narrator
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
(2018)
Narrator
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
(2018)
Wilson Fisk (voice)
Isle of Dogs
(2018)
Spots (voice)
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
(2019)
Joseph Pulitzer (voice)
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti
(2019)
Narrator
A Rainy Day in New York
(2019)
Roland Pollard
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
(2019)
Narrator (voice)
Human Capital
(2020)
Drew Hagel
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
(2021)
Self
The French Dispatch
(2021)
Talk Show Host
Don't Look Up
(2021)
Bash Narrator (voice)
The Conspiracy
(2022)
Ray Donovan: The Movie
(2022)
Ray Donovan
Golda
(2023)
Henry Kissinger
Across the River and Into the Trees
(2023)
Colonel Richard Cantwell
Asteroid City
(2023)
J.J. Kellogg
Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa
(2023)
Self (archive footage)
Meeting Zelenskyy
(2023)
Self
Production
Spring Forward
(2000)
Associate Producer
Chuck
(2017)
Producer
Human Capital
(2020)
Producer
Ray Donovan: The Movie
(2022)
Executive Producer
Ukrainians in Exile
(2022)
Executive Producer
Rule of Two Walls
(2023)
Executive Producer
Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story
(2023)
Executive Producer
Writing
Everything Is Illuminated
(2005)
Screenplay
Chuck
(2017)
Screenplay
Ray Donovan: The Movie
(2022)
Writer
Directing
Crew