Displaying the kind of off-kilter fetish that makes him a natural for leading roles in independent films and rectitude parts in mainstream features, Liev Schreiber has made a respect for himself on both circuits. Born October 4, 1967, in San Francisco, Schreiber was raised on New York's Trim East Side. A graduate of Hampshire College in Massachusetts, he initially wanted to become a author, but later firm to test his dispense at acting, training at both London's noteworthy Majestic Aca... demy of Effective Arts and the Yale Style of Stage play. Schreiber's first acting job was on Broadway, where he appeared in In the Summer Prostitution. More theater work followed and in 1994, the actor made his film debut in the Steve Martin comedy Impure Nuts. The film was an unequivocal flop, although Schreiber's role as a kind of muscular transvestite proved to be one of the picture's not many memorable features. His next contract, the 1995 indie Denise Calls Up, fared a petty better; despite practically non-existent box-room ratings, it was rewarded with dangerous approval.

Following more minor veil whip into shape, he landed the role of a British bouncer in the successful indie flick Party Girl (1995), which also starred nascent indie queen Parker Posey. Schreiber got an introduction to a more mainstream audience thanks to his r“le as killer Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's mega-unearth Scream, a role he reprised in the cover's upshot, Scream 2 (1997). The notwithstanding year, Schreiber had supreme roles in two more independent films, The Daytrippers (which again paired him with Posey) and Walking and Talking, as poetically as a secondary role in the bloated Mel Gibson thriller Ransom. Deftly straddling the split between Sundance and the studio, Schreiber went on to make three major mainstream pictures in 1998: Phantoms, with Rose McGowan and Ben Affleck; Waning with Susan Sarandon, Paul Newman, and Gene Hackman; and Domain with Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone, and Dustin Hoffman. The following year, Schreiber returned to more up on territory with his role in Tony Goldwyn's paltry but leading screenplay A Walk on the Moon. As the man Diane Lane cuckolds for Viggo Mortensen, Schreiber mined endless possibilities from what could deceive been a narrow situation, giving his character the sort of charming, good-intentioned inadequacy that became one of the actor's trademarks. In 2000, Schreiber returned to the role of Cotton Weary a third time to close insensible the Howl franchise.

It was around this time that he also began doing a largish amount of voice-upwards guide, chiefly with a view PBS's NOVA series. As the decade progressed, Schreiber continued to be a presence in bigger mainstream projects, such as the 2002 modification of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears. Two years later, he could be seen in another strong-profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Prospect. In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Blonde Sphere-endearing HBO film Lackawanna Blues, a compulsion-affirming coating about a charitable black char (played next to S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a hospice and a guiding hand to the youths who put in an appearance to glowing at her boarding house. His 2006 project would be quite a departure from this sweet, poignant tale, as Schreiber took the role of Robert Thorne in John Moore's remake of the 1976 horror classic The Sign. Heavily publicized for its "666" release date (June 6th, 2006), the videotape pleased dislike fans, as did Schreiber's performance as husband to Julia Stiles and father to the ill-famed Damien, a minute guy who seems to harbor an evil that at first-class makes him disturbingly cold and at worst, places him at the crux of the wicked one's own plan in spite of castigation on Earth. Schreiber next went into staging on The Painted Cover, an adaptation of the new by W. Somerset Maugham. Playing the playboy whom Naomi Watts cuckolds her quiet with, the actor immersed himself in the portion for the drama.