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Isaac Liev Schreiber (/ˈliːɛv ˈʃraɪbər/ LEE-ev SHRY-bər; born October 4, 1967) is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award and nominations for nine Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. Schreiber's early film roles include Mixed Nuts (1994), Party Girl (1995), The Daytrippers (1996), and Big Night (1996). He appeared in the first three Scream horror films (1996–2000), Ransom (1996), The Hurricane (1999), Hamlet (2000), Kate & Leopold (2001), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Painted Veil (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Spotlight (2015). He acted in the Wes Anderson films Isle of Dogs (2018), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). He made his directorial film debut with Everything Is Illuminated (2005). He made his Broadway debut in In the Summer House (1992). He earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing Richard Roma in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross (2005). He was Tony-nominated for his roles in the Eric Bogosian play Talk Radio (2007), the Arthur Miller revival A View from the Bridge (2010) and the John Patrick Shanley revival Doubt (2024). He also acted in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016). For his television roles, he most notably portrayed the titular character in the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan (2013–2020). He reprised the role in the television film Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022). The role has earned him nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. He also portrayed Orson Welles in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999) and Otto Frank in the Nat Geo miniseries A Small Light (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Liev Schreiber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

In the winter of 1982, Anton Grebov, a quiet factory worker in the oppressive state of Arstotzka, is reassigned by government lottery to serve as an immigration inspector at a newly opened border checkpoint. What begins as a monotonous job — checking passports, verifying documents, and stamping approvals — quickly unravels into a daily test of loyalty, morality, and survival. As the regime tightens control, rules change without warning, and the line outside grows longer with desperate refugees, smugglers, spies, and innocents fleeing violence. Some offer bribes. Others bring secrets. A few might be terrorists. Ezic, a shadowy revolutionary group, reaches out to Anton with cryptic messages and dangerous choices. His every decision is monitored. His mistakes are punished. His family — a sick daughter, a fragile wife — relies on his paycheck, even as the cost of obedience grows unbearable. With the fate of strangers in his hands and his own family’s safety hanging by a thread, Anton must decide what kind of man he is: a loyal servant of the state, a silent rebel, or something in between. Every stamp is a sentence. Every choice has a price. Glory to Arstotzka.


