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Liev Schreiber
Birth at
4 October 1967
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Liv Schreiber was born on October 4, 1967 in San Francisco, California. His mother was an artist, and his father was a theater actor and director. His mother had a Jewish nationality and was very fond of the work of Leo Tolstoy. According to her, she chose the name because of her love for the famous writer. The father claimed that the name was given in honor of the doctor who once saved his mother from death. However, the ambiguity with the choice of name did not affect the fate of the young man.
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Liv Schreiber was born on October 4, 1967 in San Francisco, California. His mother was an artist, and his father was a theater actor and director. His mother had a Jewish nationality and was very fond of the work of Leo Tolstoy. According to her, she chose the name because of her love for the famous writer. The father claimed that the name was given in honor of the doctor who once saved his mother from death. However, the ambiguity with the choice of name did not affect the fate of the young man.
When he was only 1 year old, the family moved to Canada. When he was 4 years old, the marriage of his parents broke up. After the divorce, Liv Schreiber stayed with his mother. They moved to New York, the Lower East Side, where he spent his childhood. To feed her son and provide him with a decent future, the mother got a job as a driver in a taxi service, and also engaged in the manufacture and sale of papier-mache dolls. She raised her son in strictness: she did not let him watch color films and forced him to spend his free time reading books.
In the late 70s, the future actor moved to Pomfret (Connecticut). In 1984, he enrolled in a private school in New York City, where actress Amanda Pitt studied with him. At school, Liv Schreiber was absolutely not popular, despite his passion for sports. First of all, his family was too weird. And secondly, he was suspected of theft, although no one could prove his guilt.
Then he studied at college, where Liv began to engage in acting. 1992 marked the end of the Higher School of Dramatic Art. He also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Liv Schreiber originally planned to become a writer or screenwriter. But since the 90s, he began to be offered roles in various films:
X-Men. Start. Wolverine .
"Kate and Leo" .
"Rippers" And he stopped at that particular job.