Liev Schreiber
- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) Schreiber was born in San Francisco. His
mother, Heather (Milgram), is a painter, and his father,
Tell Schreiber (Tell Carroll Schreiber
III), is a theatrical actor who had a small role in
The Keeper (1976). His mother is from
a working-class Jewish family from Poland and Ukraine, while his father
is from an upper-class Protestant family. His parents moved the family
to Canada when Liev was one, and divorced when he was five. He and his
mother moved to New York, where she drove a cab. During that time, they
lived as squatters in abandoned buildings. His mother taught him to
read, and she also forbade him from seeing color movies. He grew up
seeing silent and black & white movies at a local revival house and
particularly enjoyed those of
Charles Chaplin. His mother now lives in
an ashram in Virginia. He began acting at Hampshire College and
continued at the Yale University School of Drama in 1992. He originally
wanted to be a playwright, but his teacher encouraged him to become an
actor.
