Liev Schreiber (/li-ɛvˈ/; born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Screamtrilogy of horror films, Ransom (1996), Phantoms (1998), The Sum of All Fears(2002), The Omen (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Taking Woodstock(2009), Salt (2010), Goon (2011), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Spotlight (2015). He later became known to a younger generation of audiences for his voice work in My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Isle of Dogs and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).