9 Facts About Liev Schreiber's Life and Family

1. #001

   While growing up, Liev Schreiber was not allowed by his mother to watch color films. The first color film he saw was Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) in 1977.

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2. #002

   Liev Schreiber became a father for the second time at age 41 when his former fiancée Naomi Watts gave birth to their child Kai Schreiber on December 14, 2008.

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3. #003

   Liev Schreiber grew up in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. He graduated from Friends Seminary High School in Manhattan.

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4. #004

   Liev Schreiber's mother says she named him after her favorite writer, Lev Tolstoy; Tolstoy's Russian name is Lev (the letter 'e' is pronounced 'ye' in Russian, and the standard English rendering of the name is Lev). His father says he was named after a doctor who saved his mother's life in San Francisco. In German, the word 'schreiber' means 'writer.'.

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5. #006

   Liev Schreiber is the son of Tell Schreiber and Heather Schreiber. He has four stepbrothers and one stepsister, one of whom is his younger stepbrother Pablo Schreiber.

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6. #007

   Liev Schreiber attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and Hampshire College, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama with a master's degree in 1992.

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7. #008

   Liev Schreiber accompanied his girlfriend Naomi Watts to the New York premiere of King Kong (2005). It was their first public appearance together. On February 28, 2007, they announced they were expecting their first child.

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8. #012

   Liev Schreiber's father has German, Swiss, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Belgian Flemish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. His mother comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland and Ukraine).

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9. #014

   After his parents divorced, Liev Schreiber and his siblings saw their father very little during their childhood.

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