Monday, September 14, 2009

Who is Patricia Anne Stratigias?

Who is Patricia Anne Stratigias?[6][11]? The wrestling world knows her as Trish Stratus. She born , , is a former fitness model, former professional wrestler and television personality from Canada. She was born December 18, 1975.

After beginning her career as a fitness model, Stratus began working for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which was later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), in March 2000. Early in her career, she was involved in sexually themed storylines, such as managing the team T & A and an affair with Vince McMahon. As Stratus spent more time in the ring, her wrestling skills and popularity strengthened. Because of this, she was a one-time WWE Hardcore Champion, three-time "WWE Babe of the Year" and was proclaimed "Diva of the Decade".[3][12] After nearly seven years in the business, Stratus retired from wrestling on September 17, 2006 after winning her seventh WWE Women's Championship, the most in WWE history.[13]

Aside from professional wrestling, Stratus modeled for and appeared on numerous magazine covers and has been involved in charity work. She has also been the host of several award and television shows, including Stratusphere in 2008.



Stratigias made her debut as a heel on the March 19, 2000 episode of Sunday Night Heat, under the ring name Trish Stratus.[2] She appeared on stage to scout WWF Superstars, in particular Test and Prince Albert. The next night on Raw Stratus began her first role in the company, managing Test and Albert in the tag team T & A.[14] It was during her stint managing T & A that Stratus took her first major bump in the ring, being driven through a table by the Dudley Boyz at Backlash after she had been taunting Bubba Ray Dudley for several weeks.[15] She also began managing then-heel, Val Venis to win the Intercontinental Championship but their partnership ended at SummerSlam after Venis lost the title.[4]

Stratus made her in-ring debut on the June 20 taping of SmackDown!, winning a tag team match with T & A against the Hardy Boyz and the face gimmick of Lita. A storyline feud between Stratus and Lita developed after the match with Stratus attacking Lita on episodes of Raw and SmackDown!, leading to an Indian Strap match on the July 24 edition of Raw which Stratus won with help from Stephanie McMahon.[1] She finished the year competing unsuccessfully for the WWF Women's Championship numerous times, and leaving Test and Albert when the team disbanded.[16]

In early 2001, Stratus became involved in an angle with WWF Chairman Vince McMahon, during a time when Vince's wife Linda was kayfabe institutionalized following a demand Vince had made for a divorce during an episode of SmackDown! on December 7, 2000.[4][17] Vince and Stratus' relationship increasingly angered the boss' daughter, then-heel, Stephanie McMahon.[2][7] At No Way Out on February 25, Stratus and Stephanie squared off, with Stephanie scoring the victory after a run-in by William Regal.[18] In the midst of a tag team match that pitted Vince and Stratus against Regal and Stephanie the next night on Raw, Stratus was the victim of a set-up by Vince, Stephanie and Regal. Regal executed his finisher, the Regal Cutter, on Stratus and Stephanie then dumped sewage over Stratus' body. Vince stood over Stratus, and he told her she was a toy with which he had grown tired of playing and that it was over.[19] The angle continued the next week on Raw with Vince forcing Stratus to strip down to her black underwear then started humping her in the ring and bark like a dog.[20] The storyline came to an end at WrestleMania X-Seven when Stratus slapped Vince during his match against his son Shane,[2] becoming a fan favorite in the process.[4][21][22]

Stratus then began wrestling full-time. She won a Bra and Panties tag team match with Lita against then-heels, Stacy Keibler and Torrie Wilson at InVasion.[7] After suffering an ankle injury in the summer, however, she was sidelined for three months.[23] As she rehabilitated, she kept herself visible by co-hosting Excess on TNN.[7] After returning in autumn, Stratus appeared at Survivor Series where she won the WWF Women's Championship for the first time in a six-pack challenge.[2][24][25] Stratus was next involved in a feud with Jazz over the Women's Championship, where she was booked to retain the title at the Royal Rumble but being booked to lose the belt to Jazz two weeks later on the February 4, 2002 edition of Raw.[26][27][28] Stratus then went after the title for several months, even competing in a Triple Threat match at WrestleMania X8 against Lita and Jazz in her hometown of Toronto, Canada but failed to win the match.[9][29] While chasing after the Women's title, Stratus won the WWE Hardcore Championship on May 6, pinning Crash Holly after Bubba Ray Dudley hit him over the head with a trash can.[4][24] She, however, lost the title to then-heel, Steven Richards soon afterward due to the stipulation that the belt was defended 24/7 as long as there was a referee present.[4][24] One week later, she regained the Women's Title in a tag team match with Bubba Ray Dudley.[30] During this time, Stratus began wrestling solely on the Raw brand after being drafted in the WWF Brand Extension.[31]

Stratus' second reign as champion came to an end on June 23 when she was defeated at King of the Ring by the heel gimmick of Molly Holly.[32] The two Divas continued their storyline feud for the next three months. After a failed attempt to win the title in July, Stratus won back the championship at Unforgiven.[33][34] While feuding with Holly, Stratus was also involved in an angle with new Diva the heel gimmick of Victoria who held a storyline grudge against Stratus, claiming she was betrayed by Stratus when they worked as fitness models.[4] The two competed in several title matches, with Stratus retaining until Survivor Series where Victoria won the belt in a Hardcore match.[35][36] On March 17, 2003, Victoria and Steven Richards defeated Jazz and Stratus in tag team competition. After the match, Jeff Hardy saved Stratus from an attack by both Victoria and Richards and kissed her.[37] In the following weeks, Stratus and Hardy were shown talking backstage and fighting as tag team partners and Stratus became the on-screen girlfriend of Hardy.[38] The storyline, however, was dropped when Hardy was released from WWE.[4]

At WrestleMania XIX Stratus defeated Victoria and then-heel, Jazz to capture her fourth Women's Championship, equaling the record previously set by The Fabulous Moolah, only to lose the title to Jazz at the following pay-per-view, Backlash.[39] In the following months, Stratus was placed into an alliance with Gail Kim. It was short-lived, though, as Kim turned on Stratus and teamed with Molly Holly, putting the women in a storyline feud.[4] The duo defeated Stratus and several tag team partners until Stratus began to partner with a returning Lita.[40][41][42] The team defeated Kim and Holly in several matches, including a match at Unforgiven.[43]


Stratus began a romance with Chris Jericho during the November 10 edition of Raw when she agreed to go on a date with him.[44][45] Subsequently, they participated in an intergender tag team match as partners on December 1. After the match, Stratus overheard Jericho talking to the heel gimmick of Christian, who was involved in an on-screen romance with Lita at the time, about who could sleep with their respective woman first.[46] One week later, Stratus and Lita confronted the men about their actions, leading to a feud between the two men and women which resulted in a "Battle of the Sexes" match at Armageddon, which the women lost.[47] A rematch the next night ended in a no contest.[48] Her relationship with Jericho continued into the next year with a new angle of a face gimmick of Jericho developing feelings for Stratus. Christian would also briefly turn face, but would quickly turn heel once more by doing a one night betrayal on Stratus and starting a feud with Jericho. During a match at WrestleMania XX, however, Stratus became a villain by betraying Jericho and siding with Christian, Stratus claimed her reasons for siding with Christian were that he was a real man and Jericho was a love sick puppy.[7][49] The duo feuded with Jericho for several months and competed in a Handicap match at Backlash.[50] The team of Stratus and Christian were joined by "problem solver" Tyson Tomko the next night on Raw.[51]

Stratus was booked to win the Women's Championship for a fifth time at Bad Blood on June 13.[52] She defended the title until she suffered a legitimate broken hand in July that caused her to be out of action for approximately a month.[53][54] Upon her return, she continued to defend the title against numerous challengers before losing the championship to Lita on December 6 when both women wrestled in the main event of Raw for the championship.[7] Stratus recaptured the gold a month later at New Year's Revolution after Lita suffered a legitimate injury during the match.[55] A new angle was then developed between Stratus and 2004 Raw Diva Search winner Christy Hemme over jealousy of Hemme's Playboy magazine exposure, with Stratus attacking Hemme and spray painting the word "slut" across her back.[56] Stratus was challenged by Hemme, who later revealed she was being trained by Lita, for a title match at WrestleMania 21 and was successful in retaining the title.[56]


In May 2005 Stratus was sidelined with the Women's Championship after suffering a herniated disc, with the storyline explanation that Viscera had injured her with a big splash move at Backlash after she berated him for losing to Lita's then-husband Kane.[7][23] She returned to Raw in September, once again portraying her face persona by siding with Ashley Massaro against Vince's Devils.[57] The feud also involved the debuting Diva Mickie James who introduced herself as Stratus' biggest fan.[7] On the Eddie Guerrero Tribute Show, Stratus took part in an interpromotional Diva battle royal that was won by SmackDown! Diva Melina.[58] The next week, MNM kidnapped Stratus for Melina, who challenged a tied up and gagged Stratus to a match for the Women's Championship.[59] The two fought at Survivor Series, with Stratus defeating Melina after interference from Mickie James.[60] Stratus and James continued teaming together in late 2005 while James' character became increasingly obsessed with Stratus.[61] On the December 26 episode of Raw, the storyline between Stratus and James developed into a lesbian one when James initiated an intimate kiss with Stratus under a sprig of mistletoe, causing a surprised Stratus to flee the locker room.[62]

The odd relationship between Stratus and James continued into 2006, with the two Divas competing against each other in a title match at New Year's Revolution, where Stratus emerged victorious.[63] Despite the defeat, James continued to be enamored of Stratus which made her feel uncomfortable.[64] On March 6, 2006 Stratus confronted James, telling her that she needed space.[65] The duo briefly reconciled on the March 18 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, teaming together to defeat Candice Michelle and Victoria. James, however, turned on Stratus after the match and began to attack her.[66] A match at WrestleMania 22 saw Stratus lose the Women's Championship to James.[67] During a rematch at Backlash Stratus suffered a legitimate dislocated shoulder after taking a bump to the outside of the ring.[68] While she was rehabilitating for six weeks she continued to appear on-screen.[4][69]

Stratus returned to the ring on June 26 and started a romantic angle with Carlito after he saved her from a double team attack by Melina and Johnny Nitro.[70] They competed as a team and won a mixed tag team match against Melina and Nitro at Saturday Night's Main Event on July 15.[71] As a couple, Stratus and Carlito briefly feuded with WWE Champion Edge and Lita after the pair interrupted Stratus' title match with Mickie James. The two couples competed in several tag team matches, with Stratus and Carlito jobbing to Edge and Lita each time.[72][73] In late August, Lita stated that Stratus would retire following Unforgiven, which was later confirmed by Stratus.[74] At the pay-per-view on September 17, in her hometown of Toronto,[75] Stratus defeated Lita with fellow Canadian Bret Hart's signature submission maneuver, the Sharpshooter, to win a record 7th Women's Championship and retire as champion.[76][77][78]

Stratus made a special appearance on December 10, 2007 during Raw's 15th Anniversary special along with Lita, interrupting Jillian Hall as she sang by attacking her and then celebrating with Lita.[79] Stratus made another special appearance on the May 5, 2008 episode of Raw, as the event took place from her hometown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She took part in a backstage segment involving Ron Simmons and Trevor Murdoch.[80] Stratus wrestled her first match in over two years on the December 22, 2008 episode of Raw, which also took place in Toronto. She and John Cena defeated Santino Marella and Beth Phoenix in a mixed tag team match.Stratus also will appear as the guest host on RAW in her home town of Toronto .[81]

From 2001, Stratus was a spokesperson for the World Natural Sports Association.[2][82] On June 3, 2006, she hosted the Canada's Walk of Fame induction ceremony and performed a song and dance number inspired by the soundtrack from the film Chicago at the event.[83][84] During the show, Stratus ad libbed a kiss with fellow Canadian actress Pamela Anderson.[75][83][85]

From late November 2006 to mid-January 2007, Stratus temporarily moved to Muncie, Indiana for the CBS reality show Armed & Famous.[13][86][87] She was given a spot in the series after Paul Heyman had mentioned her name to CBS.[13] The concept was that she was one of five celebrities who trained as volunteer officers with the Muncie Police Department.[88] After finishing her training, Stratus and her real life officer partner were followed around by a camera crew while going on legitimate police calls.[86] Although the show was scheduled to broadcast seven episodes starting on January 10, 2007, CBS canceled the series after just four of the episodes were aired.[13][88][89]

After the cancellation of Armed & Famous, Stratus hosted The Second City's Next Comedy Legend.[13] The contest was similar to the style of America's Next Top Model, with Stratus portraying the "Tyra Banks" role as contact between the contestants and judges.[90] In 2003, a DVD about her career entitled Trish Stratus-100% Stratusfaction Guaranteed was released.[91] Stratus also guest-starred in the Canadian show Da Kink in My Hair's new season, which started on February 12, 2009.[92]


In September 2007, Stratus announced that she would be opening a yoga studio in North Toronto called Stratusphere Yoga in 2008. Also in 2008, she hosted her own travel show also called Stratusphere.[93][94].

Stratigias is of Greek and Polish descent and is the eldest daughter of John and Alice Stratigias.[5][6] Her sisters are named Christie and Melissa.[5]

Stratigias married her boyfriend and high school sweetheart of fourteen years, Ron, on September 30, 2006.[13][75][88] Guests in attendance at her wedding included former WWE Divas Lita, Ashley, Ivory, Molly Holly, Torrie Wilson and Victoria, as well as Mickie James, Maria and Lillian Garcia.[6] Her bridal gown was featured on a cover of Today's Bride magazine.[95] Shortly after the wedding, Stratus got the call to be a part of Armed & Famous, so she filmed the show instead of going on her honeymoon.[13][88]

She has refused to pose nude for Playboy, preferring to be remembered for her wrestling career.[5][75][96]

Stratigias has also been involved with numerous charities such as Ronald McDonald House, Dreams Take Flight and the Special Olympics.[97] On March 29, 2008, she participated in the Island Triathlon Series as part of a celebrity relay team to help raise money for Dignitas International.[98]

In wrestling

Stratus
  • Finishing moves
  • Signature moves
  • "The Quintessential WWE Diva"[83]
  • "Canada's Greatest Export"
  • "The Queen of Queens" (Used in reference of Triple H's "King of Kings" nickname)[83]

Championships and accomplishments


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Who is Isaac Liev Schreiber?

Who is Isaac Liev Schreiber?[1][2] The world knows him as Liev Schreiber, he is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Scream trilogy of horror films. Schreiber is also a respected stage actor, performing in several Broadway productions. In 2005, Schreiber won a Tony Award for his performance in the play Glengarry Glen Ross. That year, Schreiber also made his debut as a film director and writer with Everything Is Illuminated, based on the novel of the same name.

Schreiber is in a relationship with Naomi Watts, with whom he has two children.


Schreiber was born October 4, 1967 in San Francisco, California, the son of Heather (née Milgram) and Tell Schreiber, a stage actor and director. His mother already had three sons when he was born, while his father was 22 years old, and seven years her junior.[3] Schreiber's father, who is of Austrian, Swiss, Irish and Scottish descent, was from a blueblood and wealthy society family from Bucks County, Pennsylvania; he graduated from Dartmouth and was a wrestling and football star.[4][5] Schreiber's mother, who now lives on an ashram in Virginia, was born to a Brooklyn working-class household of Jewish Communists, descended from immigrants from Poland, Ukraine and Germany; she was a highly cultured eccentric, with a firm knowledge of classical music and Russian literature, and has been described by Schreiber as “this far-out Socialist Labor Party hippie bohemian freak who hung out with [William] Burroughs.”[4][5][6][7] When Heather was twelve, her own mother, Liev's grandmother, was lobotomized.[4] His mother says she named him after her favorite Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, while his father claims that Schreiber was named after the doctor who saved his mother's life. His family nickname, adopted when Schreiber was a baby, is "Huggy".[4]

When Schreiber was one year old, his family moved to a commune in Canada, which ended badly. His father embraced free love with relish, Schreiber says, and incited his mother to “do some crazy shit.”[8] According to Tell, at the beginning of their marriage, in San Francisco, Heather had a bad experience on LSD and subsequently, over the next four years, was repeatedly admitted to hospitals and underwent therapy.[4] But, feeling herself held captive and threatened by Tell with being put in a mental institution, Heather left. As Tell pursued his wife, Liev and his mother were trailed by private detectives in various states; when he was three, he was kidnapped by his father from an upstate New York commune where Heather had decamped. By the time Liev was four, he was living with her on the fourth floor of a dilapidated walkup at First Avenue and First Street (his half brothers from her first marriage were parked with their father in a duplex on Central Park West), and he was the object of a fierce custody battle, which bankrupted his beloved maternal grandfather, Alex Milgram. (Milgram was the significant male in Schreiber’s youth. He played the cello and owned Renoir etchings, and made his living by delivering meat to restaurants.)[4] When Schreiber was five, his parents divorced; his mother won custody, and the two moved to a cold-water flat on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City, where he was raised.[5][9] This was a childhood for Schreiber dominated by his mother’s penury (they frequently had no electricity, hot water, or even beds).[9]

His mother was "a highly cultured eccentric" who supported them by splitting her time between driving a cab and creating papier-mâché puppets."[4] On Schreiber's 16th birthday, his mother bought him a motorcycle, "to promote fearlessness".[4] The critic John Lahr wrote in a 1999 New Yorker profile that, "To a large extent, Schreiber's professional shape-shifting and his uncanny instinct for isolating the frightened, frail, goofy parts of his characters are a result of being forced to adapt to his mother's eccentricities. It's both his grief and his gift."[4] He endured her mood swings and bohemian proclivities (she made him take Hindu names, wear yoga shirts, and he was forced, briefly, to go to an Ashram school in Connecticut when he was 12).[10] Schreiber's mother also forbade Schreiber from seeing color movies. As a result, his favorite actor was Charlie Chaplin. In the late 70s and early 80s Schreiber, known then as Shiva Das, lived at the Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville East, in Pomfret, Connecticut. He also abided by his mother's vegetarian diet. In retrospect, Schreiber said in a 2008 interview, he appreciates his mother's influences, saying, "Since I've had Sasha, I've completely identified with everything my mother went through raising me...And I think her choices were inspired."[11]

Subsequently, Schreiber attended Friends Seminary, the same school attended by actress Amanda Peet when he was a senior and she was in sixth grade.[12]

Schreiber went on to Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts where he began his acting training at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, via the Five Colleges consortium. He graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 1992, where he starred in Charles Evered's The Size of the World, directed by Walton Jones. At Yale, Liev studied with Earle R. Gister.[13] He also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but was steered toward acting instead.

Schreiber had several supporting roles in various independent films until his big break, as the accused murderer Cotton Weary in the Scream trilogy of horror films. Though the success of the Scream trilogy would lead Schreiber to roles in several big-budget studio pictures, Entertainment Weekly wrote in 2007 that "Schreiber is [still] best known for such indie gems as Walking and Talking, The Daytrippers, and Big Night."[14]

After Scream, Schreiber was cast as the young Orson Welles in the HBO original movie RKO 281, for which he was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. He then played supporting roles in several studio films, including the 2000 movie of Hamlet with Ethan Hawke, The Hurricane with Denzel Washington, and The Sum of All Fears with Ben Affleck. The 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, with Washington and Meryl Streep, was another major film for the actor, stirring some controversy as it opened during a heated presidential election cycle. Schreiber also played as Robert Thorn with Julia Stiles in "The Omen" An American ambassador who learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist, a remake of the 1976 horror classic "The Omen" (1976).

Along with his screen work, Schreiber is a well-respected classical actor; in a 1998 review of the Shakespeare play Cymbeline, The New York Times called his performance "revelatory" and ended the article with the plea, "More Shakespeare, Mr. Schreiber."[15] A year later, Schreiber played the title role in Hamlet in a December 1999 revival at The Public Theater, to similar raves. In 2000, he played Laertes in Hamlet, a modern adaptation of the play. His performance in the title role of Henry V in a 2003 Central Park production of that play caused Lahr to expound upon his aptitude at playing Shakespeare. "He has a swiftness of mind," Lahr wrote, "which convinces the audience that language is being coined in the moment. His speech, unlike that of the merely adequate supporting cast, feels lived rather than learned."[16]

In 2002 he starred in Neil LaBute's play The Mercy Seat along with Sigourney Weaver on off-Broadway that was critically and commercially very successful. In the spring of 2005, Schreiber essayed a non-Shakespearean stage role, that of Richard Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross. As Roma, Schreiber won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. In June to July 2006, he played the title role in Macbeth opposite Jennifer Ehle at the Delacorte Theater.

Schreiber has narrated a number of documentaries, many of them aired as part of PBS series such as American Experience, Nova, and Secrets of the Dead. He is also the voice behind the television commercials for Infiniti.

Schreiber is also the voice of HBO's Sports of the 20th Century documentaries. Similarly, Schreiber is also the narrator of HBO Boxing's Countdown and 24/7 documentary series. Schreiber served as the narrator for Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Dallas Cowboys in 2008, and Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009, on HBO. He also narrated the History Channel special Ape to Man.


Schreiber told The New Yorker in 1999 that "I don't know that I want to be an actor for the rest of my life." For a time in the late nineties, he hoped to produce and direct an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice starring Dustin Hoffman.[4] In that time, Schreiber started writing a screenplay about his relationship with his Ukrainian grandfather, a project he abandoned when, according to The New York Times, "he read Jonathan Safran Foer's hit novel, Everything Is Illuminated, and decided Mr. Foer had done it better".[17] Schreiber's film adaptation of the short story from which the novel originated, which he both wrote and directed, was released in 2005. The film, which starred Elijah Wood, received lukewarm-to-positive reviews,[18] with Roger Ebert calling it "a film that grows in reflection."

In 2006, Schreiber was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[19] In fall of that year, Schreiber directed and starred in the "2006 Join the Fight" AIDS PSA campaign for Cable Positive and Kismet Films (others involved with the campaign included actress Naomi Watts, fashion designer Calvin Klein, and playwright Tony Kushner).

Schreiber played Charlie Townsend in the 2006 film The Painted Veil, starring opposite Watts and Edward Norton. In the same year, Schreiber also appeared in The Omen, which was a remake of the 1976 film of the same name. For television, the actor portrayed a character who temporarily replaces Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, in the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, during the 2006–2007 season. He played Michael Keppler, a seasoned CSI with a strong reputation in various police departments across the nation, before joining the veteran Las Vegas team. Schreiber joined the cast on January 18, 2007 and shot a four-episode arc.[14]

Schreiber appeared in the Broadway revival of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio. The show began previews at the Longacre Theatre on February 15, 2007 in preparation for its March opening. On May 11, 2007, He won the Drama League Award for distinguished performance for his portrayal of shock jock "Barry Champlain" in Talk Radio, and has received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for the role. The New York Times' Ben Brantley called his performance "the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting."[11]

Schreiber played the womanizing Lotario Thurgot in Mike Newell's screen adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera, released in 2007. In a January 2007 interview, Schreiber mentioned that he was working on a screenplay.[14]

Late in 2008, Schreiber achieved his greatest screen success to date, portraying Jewish resistance fighter, Zus Bielski in the film Defiance, alongside Daniel Craig. In February 2008, 20th Century Fox announced Schreiber would play the mutant supervillain, Sabretooth in the Marvel Comics film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on May 1, 2009.[20]

Schreiber has a half sister and four half brothers, one of whom, Pablo, is also an actor. The other half-brothers are Max, Charles, and Will. He has a Jack Russell pup named Chicken (born in the spring of 2000). He is a good friend of Dustin Hoffman. He enjoys basketball, fencing, cycling, and has played football in the past. He has previously dated Kristin Davis, and Kate Driver, sister of Minnie Driver.

Rumors around his relationship with British-Australian actress Naomi Watts (with whom he appeared in The Painted Veil) have long flew over whether or not the couple are in fact married. Liev, who has tricked the media once before in 2007 by calling Naomi his wife, again called her as such in a video which featured them planting trees for the Jewish National Fund in Israel.[21][22] This caused the rumors about a secret ceremony to again come up, however there has been no proof given other than Liev's word in the video which was shot in early June of this year. Naomi was quoted near the end of January of this year saying that Liev had in fact given her a ring (which she wasn't wearing at the time) but that neither of them wanted to rush into marriage.[23] This would confirm that they are engaged but had no serious plans for marriage at the time.


Their first son Alexander Pete was born on July 25, 2007. They call him Sasha, a Russian variation of the name Alexander.[24][25] On December 13, 2008, Watts gave birth to the couple's second son, Samuel Kai.[26][27]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1994 Mixed Nuts Chris
1995 Denise Calls Up Jerry Heckerman
Mad Love Salesman
Party Girl Nigel
Buffalo Girls Ogden (TV series)
1996 The Daytrippers Carl Petrovic
Walking and Talking Andrew
Big Night Leo
Scream Cotton Weary
Ransom Clark Barnes
1997 His and Hers Glenn
Scream 2 Cotton Weary
1998 Phantoms Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
Sphere Ted Fielding
Twilight Jeff Willis
Desert Blue Mickey Moonday (Voice)
Since You've Been Gone Fred Linderhoff
1999 A Walk on the Moon Marty Kantrowitz
Jakob the Liar Mischa
The Hurricane Sam Chaiton
Spring Forward Paul
RKO 281 Orson Welles

 (TV mini-series)
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
2000 Hamlet Laertes
Scream 3 Cotton Weary
2001 Kate & Leopold Stuart Besser
2002 The Sum of All Fears John Clark
2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil Ernst Hanfstaengl

 (TV mini-series)
Spinning Boris Joe Shumate
2004 The Manchurian Candidate Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw

 Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2006 Lackawanna Blues Ulysses Ford

 television movie
Glengarry Glen Ross Richard Roma

 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
2006 The Omen Robert Thorn
The Painted Veil Charles Townsend
2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Michael Keppler (TV series) (Episodes:"Law of Gravity","Meet Market","Redrum","Sweet Jane")
The Ten Ray Johnson
Love in the Time of Cholera Lotario Thurgot
2008 Independent Lens William Kunstler

 (TV series)
Defiance Zus Bielski
2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine Victor Creed
Taking Woodstock Vilma
Repo Men! Frank
Every Day Ned
2010 Salt Winter
Scream 4 Cotton Weary


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