Biography of Lev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber (his name is also spelled Liev Schreiber in Russian) is a talented American actor whose filmography includes many interesting and noteworthy films. “Scream”, “The Painted Veil”, “Love in the Time of Cholera”, “Salt”, as well as many other screen works made our today’s hero a real Hollywood star. He is good and organic in a variety of images, and therefore the story about his life and fate will certainly be of interest to many readers. After all, it is very difficult not to love the work of Liev Schreiber. Indeed, among his works it is very easy to find real masterpieces.
Personal life
The biography is silent about the family of Nikolai Yakovlevich Schreiber. It is known that the actor is married to Irina Naumkina. Judging by the photo on VKontakte, the couple has a son, Yakov, born in 2011. Irina, like her husband, is an actress by profession. The girl works at the Yaroslavl Theater for Young Spectators and appears in films and TV series. The Schreiber family lives in Yaroslavl, but prefers to vacation in Europe: Irina and her son visited Montenegro in 2020, in 2010 the couple visited Abkhazia, and in 2020 - in Crimea. In family photos, Nikolai looks like a giant next to the fragile Irina - the actor’s height is 196 cm.
Nikolai Schreiber with his wife and son
But the actor is happy to tell fans about his hobbies and interests. Nikolai has typical male hobbies - fencing, weapons, old cars, prefers to listen to rock (Nirvana, The Offspring) and classics (Vivaldi, Mozart), enjoys watching Hollywood thrillers, but he does not like television shows, in his spare time he reads fantasy and detective stories . Schreiber loves children and enjoys raising his son when Irina is busy filming or going on tour. From time to time, the family goes out to relax in nature in the vicinity of Yaroslavl, where Nikolai enjoys fishing.
Early years, childhood and family of Lev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber was born in romantic and sensual San Francisco into a family that was strongly associated with art. His father, Tell Schreiber, was a famous theater actor, and his mother, Heather Milgram, worked as an artist. A large variety of different bloods are mixed in the veins of our today's hero. So, in particular, his father has Irish, Swiss, Scottish and Austrian roots. Mom is an ethnic Jew and comes from a family of immigrants from Poland and Ukraine.
The filmography of actor Liev Schreiber is impressive
When the future actor was only a year old, his family moved to live in Canada, but three years later Lev’s parents divorced. From that moment on, the life of their family changed significantly. The little boy practically never saw his father. Some time later, his mother, who now worked 24 hours a day as a taxi driver and a saleswoman of papier-mâché dolls, slowly began to disappear from his daily life.
Left alone with himself, Liev Schreiber read a lot and often watched black and white films. It is very noteworthy that during this period our today’s hero dreamed of becoming a writer and only considered the profession of a screenwriter as an alternative.
Some time later, the mother began to take her son to her work, but it soon became clear that he was stealing money from the store safe. Having learned about this, the mother decided to send her son to a special camp (ashram), where he had to rethink his behavior. For some time, Lev returned to New York, where he very soon began playing sports and also attending classes at the private school Friends Seminary. It was here, in the school theater Friendship Academy, that our today's hero first discovered his acting talent.
He began performing frequently on stage, and soon decided to seriously think about becoming an actor. Cherishing the dream of a theatrical career, our today's hero moved to Amherst (Massachusetts), where he began studying at Hampshire Theater College. It was here that the future film actor began to play his first leading roles. Everything was going very well, but at some point Liev Schreiber decided that his acting skills were not good enough, and therefore decided to move to England. Here he began to attend classes at Yale University and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
After graduation, our today's hero went back to the USA. Here, in fact, his great career began.
Liev Schreiber
American theater and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. Tony Award winner. Known for a number of independent films and several blockbusters, including Wes Craven's Scream trilogy.
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Schreiber was born to artist Heather Milgram and theater actor and director Tell Schreiber. His father is of mixed Austrian, Irish, Swiss and Scottish ancestry, and his mother is Jewish, whose ancestors immigrated from Poland, Ukraine and Germany (his maternal grandfather was from Ukraine). According to his mother, he received the name Liv (Lev) in honor of her favorite writer Leo Tolstoy, and according to his father, in honor of the doctor who saved his mother’s life.
When Schreiber was one year old, the family moved to Canada, and when he was four, his parents divorced. He spent his childhood in the Lower East Side of New York, where he lived with his mother after his parents' divorce. Her mother worked as a taxi driver and sold her own papier-mâché dolls. She forced her son to read and forbade him to watch color films, as a result of which Charlie Chaplin became his favorite actor. In 1977, Star Wars was the first color film he saw.
According to theater critic John Lahr, as a young child, Liv stole money, mostly from the safe at his mother's work. At the age of 12, Liv was caught and sent to study at the Sri Ganapati Satchidananda Ashram in Pomfret, Connecticut, for re-education. He soon returned to New York and initially attended public school, where, despite playing sports, he was unpopular due to rumors about his strange family and past thefts. In 1984, Schreiber entered Friends Seminary, a private New York school, where future actress Amanda Peet studied with him. It was at the Friendship Academy school theater that Schreiber first discovered his acting talent.
His studies continued at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where Schreiber performed his first solo role. In 1992 he graduated from Yale University School of Dramatic Arts. He also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Schreiber originally intended to become a screenwriter and novelist.
In the 1990s, Schreiber became known as an independent film actor, playing several supporting roles in the independent films Walking and Chatting (1996), Daywalkers (1998) and A Walk on the Moon (1999), for his work in The last two he received a nomination for the independent film award Chlotrudis Awards.
His role as murder suspect Cotton Weary in the Scream trilogy launched him into big-budget studio films: Hamlet (2000) with Ethan Hawke, The Hurricane (1999) with Denzel Washington and The Price of Fear (2002) with Ben Affleck.
In 1999, Schreiber received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his role as Orson Welles in the HBO television film Project 281. His work in the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate with Washington and Meryl Streep also did not go unnoticed by critics.
Since the late 90s, Schreiber had been planning to make a film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, in which the main role was intended for actor Dustin Hoffman, and then began writing the script for the film, which told about his relationship with his Ukrainian grandfather. But soon he came across Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel “And Everything Came Light,” which was based on a similar story. The film, written by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, was released in 2005. Schreiber's work as a screenwriter and director has received nominations and awards at various film festivals.
In 2006, Schreiber appeared alongside Naomi Watts and Edward Norton in the film The Painted Veil, and also played in the remake of The Omen. That same year he was invited to become a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2007, he acted as a temporary replacement for William Peterson's character in the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In the adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera, also released in 2007, Schreiber played the feminine Lothario Turgut. In 2008, he received the role of Sabretooth in the next Marvel Comics film about the X-Men, and also, together with Daniel Craig, played the Belsky brothers - Belarusian partisans - in the film "Challenge" by Edward Zwick. In 2010, the film SALT was released, where he plays the main role of an undercover Russian spy for the American CIA.
Schreiber is also well known as a stage actor. His first appearance on Broadway took place back in 1993. Among his works are many plays by Shakespeare: “Cymbeline”, “Macbeth”, main roles in “Hamlet” and “Henry V”. In 2002, Schreiber co-starred with Sigourney Weaver in the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Broadway production of The Seat of God, and in 2005 he won a Tony for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross. In 2007, his role in the Broadway revival of Eric Bogosian's play Radio Conversations earned him a Drama League Award and nominations for a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award.
Thanks to his good pronunciation and competent speech, he often acts as a commentator on various television programs and participates in dubbing documentaries for PBS, HBO, and History Channel. His voice can also be heard in Infiniti advertisements.
Schreiber has a half-sister and four half-brothers (Max, Charles, Will and Pablo), one of whom, Pablo, is also an actor. Since 2000, he has had a Jack Russell Terrier named Chicken. He enjoys basketball, cycling and fencing, and previously played football. As a teenager he trained as a lifeguard, which helped him escape while surfing in Australia.
He was engaged to actress Kristin Davis and producer Kate Driver (sister of actress Minnie Driver), then in 2006 he announced his engagement to Anglo-Australian actress Naomi Watts, with whom he starred in the film The Painted Veil. Rumors about their wedding remained unconfirmed. Alexander (Sasha) Pete, son of Naomi and Lev, was born on July 25, 2007. Naomi had another child on December 13, 2008, Lev Schreiber's second son, Samuel Kai Schreiber.
Star Trek by Liev Schreiber, filmography
In 1993, Liev Schreiber played a cameo role in the film Schindler's List, which became his debut film work.
However, the actor became truly famous a little later - after the release of several independent films - “Walk on the Moon”, “Day Travelers”, etc. For his work in these films, the actor received two Chlotrudis Awards. It is quite noteworthy that during the same period the actor began to appear frequently on the theater stage. In the early nineties, he often played on Broadway, performing in such productions as Macbeth, Hamlet, The Throne of God and some others.
During these years, Liev Schreiber often traveled between cities, changing New York to Los Angeles and back. The situation changed somewhat only after filming the legendary film “Scream,” which opened the door to the young actor into the world of big cinema. After this, our today's hero began to often act in big-budget films. The most striking roles of this period for the actor were the films “Hamlet”, “Hurricane”, “The Price of Fear” and some others. In these films, his co-stars were leading Hollywood actors - Denzel Washington, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke.
After this, Liev Schreiber began to receive offers from prominent American directors more often. A clear confirmation of this was the role in the TV series “Project 281”, after filming in which Lev was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy awards.
Having finally established himself as a full-fledged Hollywood star, the actor continued to work a lot in theater and cinema. In the 2000s, he starred in such striking films as “The Painted Veil”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, “Love in the Time of Cholera”, which brought great success to the actor. In addition, in 2005, Liev Schreiber made his mark in the popular production of Glengarry Glen Ross, which is still considered his best work on the theater stage. For this role, the actor received a Tony Award, as well as a Drama Desk Award and some other awards.
It is worth noting that 2005 was a very successful year for our today’s hero. During this period, he managed to acquire many prestigious awards, the list of which was also replenished after the release of the film “And Everything Lit Up,” in which Liev Schreiber participated as a director and screenwriter. The film was very warmly received by viewers and critics, and very soon brought its creator a prize at the Venice Film Festival and many other awards.
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He appeared on TV in 2003 in “The Wire,” in which he played a US resident with Polish roots.
In 2005, The Manchurian Candidate premiered with Schreiber as Eddie Ingram. A year later, in Kings of Dogtown, he played Stesik, and in the 2010 comedy-drama Happy Together, he played Charlie. In 2006, the actor was invited to the TV series Law and Order.
"Law and order"
He first played Kevin Botman and then Dan Kozlowski. In 2009, in the detective television project “4isla”, Schreiber could be seen in the role of Tal Feigenbaum. The following year, he played Jeremy Kiernan in the series Medium, and a year later, he played Gregory Mars in The Good Wife. In 2011, the seventh season of the comedy television project “Dope” premiered, in which the actor appeared in one of the main roles.
The creative biography of Pablo Schreiber continued to develop successfully in the theater. In 2011, he got the main role in the play “Cruel Injuries on the Playground” at the Second Stage Theater. In the same year, the Internet portal BuddyTV included the actor in the list of the sexiest men in the world.
Personal life of Lev Schreiber
During his life, Liev Schreiber had romantic relationships with many famous representatives of the world of Hollywood. So, over the years he was engaged to actress Kristin Davis and film producer Kate Driver.
Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts
In 2006, reports appeared about Lev’s engagement to actress Naomi Watts (“The Painted Veil”). Currently, the lovers are happy together. The Anglo-Australian couple have two sons, Alexander and Samuel.
Childhood and youth
Shreiber Nikolai Yakovlevich was born on October 6, 1982. The actor’s unusual surname is explained by the family’s German roots. Kolya received his secondary education at Lyceum No. 3 in the city of Tula. Since childhood, the boy dreamed of a career as an actor, so after school he entered the Tula Regional College of Culture and Art, from which he graduated in 2001.
Nikolai Schreiber in his youth
The aspiring actor received his higher education at the Yaroslavl State Theater Institute. In parallel with his studies at the Faculty of Theater Arts (Department of Drama Theater and Cinema), Nikolai has been working full-time at the Volkovsky Theater since 2002. The aspiring actor received a job offer thanks to classes at the Volkovsky Theater targeted course at the institute.
