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Liev Schreiber

Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, born in San Francisco, California. At the age of 1, his family moved to Canada, but at 4, he moved to New York, New York, where he grew up. His mother, who now lives in an ashram in Virginia, forbade him from seeing color movies as he grew up. His favorite actor, then, was Charles Chaplin.

Schreiber started acting at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Yale University School of Drama in 1992. He also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Schreiber had several small roles until his big breaker, as the accused murderer in the horror film Scream and it sequels, Scream 2 and Scream 3. He portrayed the young Orson Welles in the HBO original movie RKO 281, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and appeared as Laertes in the 2000 movie version of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet.

He has done narrator work in several sports documentary movies. He recently starred in The Sum of All Fears

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