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They faced a hardscrabble life for a few years, even living in an apartment with no electricity while she looked for work. He attended public schools for most of his education, where he was occasionally in trouble, but he transferred to a private Quaker school for his senior year.<p> It was at the Quakers' Friends Seminary that Schreiber first dabbled in acting, appearing in school plays. He studied drama at Yale and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and his first professional work was on Broadway, in a 1993 production of <i>In the Summer House</i> with <a href="/people/894/000024822/">Dianne Wiest</a>. He made his film debut as the muscular transvestite serenaded by <a href="/people/705/000022639/">Adam Sandler</a> in <i>Mixed Nuts</i> with <a href="/people/407/000022341/">Steve Martin</a>, and Schreiber has since had a varied career, jumping nimbly from art-house roles to blockbuster parts to voice work. His smooth, precise voice has made him a natural for narration duties for <i>American Experience</i>, <i>Triumph of Life</i>, and the Discovery Channel's <i>CIA: America's Secret Warriors</i>.<p> He played Cotton Weary, the accused killer in <i>Scream</i>, <i>Scream 2</i>, and <i>Scream 3</i>, played a scientist perplexed at the mysterious spacecraft in <i>Sphere</i> with <a href="/people/882/000022816/">Dustin Hoffman</a>, worked to exonerate <a href="/people/902/000023833/">Hurricane Carter</a> in <i>Hurricane</i> with <a href="/people/665/000023596/">Denzel Washington</a>, played <a href="/people/461/000032365/">Orson Welles</a> in the HBO drama <i>RKO 281</i>, and played the petty crook rehabilitated with a steady job in <i>Spring Forward</i> with <a href="/people/760/000023691/">Ned Beatty</a>. He took the <a href="/people/310/000026232/">Laurence Harvey</a> role in the 2004 remake of <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i>, and the <a href="/people/774/000023705/">Gregory Peck</a> role in the 2006 remake of <i>The Omen</i>.<p> Schreiber also wrote and directed <i>Everything is Illuminated</i>, starring <a href="/people/765/000022699/">Elijah Wood</a> as a nebbish tchotchke-collector who seeks his roots through a bizarre journey to his grandfather's homeland. The movie is a very strange road trip, with a blind driver and a break-dancing Ukrainian boy, to an unexpected destination.<p> Schreiber's name is pronounced Lee-ehv (rhymes with Kiev), but his mother calls him 'Huggy'. His father was a stage actor who appeared in one obscure, very low-budget film, the 1976 version of <i>The Keeper</i> with <a href="/people/896/000022830/">Christopher Lee</a>, in which the elder Schreiber played a private investigator trying to expose frightful happenings at an insane asylum.<p><p><b>Father:</b> Tell Schreiber (stage actor)<br><b>Mother:</b> Heather Milgram (cab driver)<br><b>Brother:</b> Pablo Schreiber (film actor)<br><b>Girlfriend:</b> <a href="/people/882/000031789/">Naomi Watts</a> (actress, together since 2004, two sons)<br><b>Son:</b> Alexander Pete Schreiber (b. 26-Jul-2007, with Watts)<br><b>Son:</b> Samuel Kai Schreiber (b. 13-Dec-2008, with Watts)<br><p> High School: Brooklyn Technical High School, New York City, NY (transferred)<br> High School: Friends Seminary High School, New York City, NY (1985)<br> University: <a href="/edu/675/000078441/">BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (1988)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/480/000068276/">MFA Drama, Yale University (1992)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/575/000079338/">Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts</a><br><p> Endorsement of <a href="/company/794/000059617/">Gap</a> 2007<br> <a href="/org/805/000167304/">John Kerry for President</a> <br> <a href="/honors/859/000044727/">Tony</a> 2005 for <i>Glengarry Glen Ross</i><br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/778/000064586/">Smoking</a>, <a href="/lists/075/000164580/">Aviophobia</a><br> <p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TELEVISION</font><br> <a href="/tv/853/000396662/">Ray Donovan</a> Ray Donovan (2013-)<br> <a href="/tv/782/000049635/">CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</a> Michael Keppler (2007)<br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/875/000103566/">Everything Is Illuminated (3-Sep-2005)</a> <br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/864/000403652/">Spider-Man: Into the 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href="/films/968/000365870/">The Reluctant Fundamentalist (29-Aug-2012)</a> <br> <a href="/films/348/000356277/">Mental (18-Aug-2012)</a> <br> <a href="/films/496/000281650/">Goon (10-Sep-2011)</a> · Ross Rhea<br> <a href="/films/039/000243307/">Salt (21-Jul-2010)</a> · Ted Winter<br> <a href="/films/097/000266296/">Every Day (24-Apr-2010)</a> · Ned<br> <a href="/films/027/000215379/">Repo Men (19-Mar-2010)</a> · Frank<br> <a href="/films/554/000206933/">Taking Woodstock (16-May-2009)</a> <br> <a href="/films/883/000204271/">X-Men Origins: Wolverine (8-Apr-2009)</a> <br> <a href="/films/058/000203446/">Defiance (31-Dec-2008)</a> · Zus Bielski<br> <a href="/films/449/000164954/">Love in the Time of Cholera (4-Oct-2007)</a> · Lotario Thugut<br> <a href="/films/410/000387246/">Constantine's Sword (24-Jun-2007)</a> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[VOICE]</font><br> <a href="/films/855/000140435/">The Ten (19-Jan-2007)</a> · Ray Johnson<br> <a 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