Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and voiceover artist.
A notable character actor who's appeared in many films since the early 90s, Schreiber is perhaps most recognized for his role as Ray Donovan in the eponymous Showtime series of the same name, as well as playing Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine opposite Hugh Jackman, and Cotton Weary in the first three Scream movies. He's also an acclaimed a stage actor, with both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for his work on Broadway.
Schreiber was married to Australian actress Naomi Watts from 2005 to 2016, with whom he shares two children. Pablo Schreiber is his younger half-brother.
Selected filmography:
- Mixed Nuts (1994) as Chris
- Party Girl (1995) as Nigel
- Scream (1996 — 2000) as Cotton Weary
- Big Night (1996) as Leo
- Ransom (1996) as Clark Barnes
- Phantoms (1998) as Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
- A Walk on the Moon (1999) as Marty Kantrowitz
- Jakob the Liar (1999) as Mischa
- Kate & Leopold (2001) as Stuart Besser
- The Sum of All Fears (2002) as John Clark
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004) as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw
- The Omen (2006) as Robert Thorn
- The Painted Veil (2006) as Charles Townsend
- Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) as Lotario Thurgot
- Defiance (2008) as Zus Bielski
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) as Victor Creed / Sabretooth
- Taking Woodstock (2009) as Vilma
- Repo Men (2010) as Frank
- Salt (2010) as Theodore "Ted" Winters
- Goon (2011) as Ross "The Boss" Rhea
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) as Bobby Lincoln
- Movie 43 (2013) as Robert
- Clear History (2013) as Tibor
- The Last Days on Mars (2013) as Vincent Campbell
- Ray Donovan (2013 — 2020) as Ray Donovan
- Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)
- The Butler (2013) as Lyndon Johnson
- Pawn Sacrifice (2014) as Boris Spassky
- Spotlight (2015) as Martin Baron
- The 5th Wave (2016) as Colonel Vosch
- My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) as the Storm King (voice)
- Isle of Dogs (2018) as Spots (voice)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) as The Kingpin (voice)
- A Rainy Day in New York (2019) as Roland Pollard
- The French Dispatch (2021) as the Talk Show Host
- A Small Light (2023) as Otto Frank
- Asteroid City (2023) as J.J. Kellogg
- Golda (2023) as Henry Kissinger
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- So My Kids Can Watch: He self-admittedly jumped at the chance to appear in 2017's My Little Pony: The Movie so his children could finally watch him play someone other than a violent and savage character as in his other films (ironically, he was type cast as the villain of the movie anyway). When asked why, he said that he once made the horrible mistake of showing his kids X-Men Origins: Wolverine and forgetting
it's not exactly your average family superhero movie. - Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's 6'3 and quite good-looking.
- Typecasting: He is aware that his roles are mostly brutal villains and anti-heroes, which has had the unfortunate side effect of his young kids viewing him as some kind of bad person.
- What Could Have Been: He almost reprised his role as Sabertooth in Logan.
