Career Conversations Q&A with Liev Schreiber, moderated by BroadwayWorld.com's Richard Ridge of "Backstage with Richard Ridge!"
Liev Schreiber is currently appearing on Broadway as “Valmont” in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. His other Broadway credits include A View From the Bridge (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Talk Radio (Tony nomination), Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award), Betrayal and In the Summer House. His other stage work includes the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park productions of Macbeth and Cymbeline, as well as the Public’s productions of Othello and Hamlet. His performance in the title role of Showtime’s Ray Donovan has earned him two Emmy and three Golden Globe Award nominations. In 2005, Schreiber made his feature directorial debut with Everything is Illuminated, which he also adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel. His many feature credits include Spotlight; Pawn Sacrifice; The Butler; Clear History; Fading Gigolo; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Salt; X-Men Origins: Wolverine; Defiance; Repo Men; The Painted Veil; The Manchurian Candidate; The Sum of All Fears; Taking Woodstock; Kate & Leopold; Goon; Every Day; Hamlet; Spring Forward; The Hurricane; A Walk on the Moon; The Daytrippers; Mixed Nuts; and the Scream trilogy. His portrayal of Orson Welles in RKO 281 earned him Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. As one of the documentary medium’s foremost narrators, he has lent his voice to such works as Mantle; :03 from Gold; A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers; Nova and Nature. He will next star in the film, The Bleeder, which he co-write and produced. The bio-pic tells the story of Chuck Wepner, the liquor store salesman and heavyweight boxer who was given the opportunity to fight Muhammad Ali as a 40-1 underdog and was the inspiration for the film, Rocky. Schreiber will play Wepner alongside Naomi Watts, Ron Perlman, and Elisabeth Moss.