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Schreiber was born Isaac Liev Schreiber in San Francisco, California, the son of Heather ( née Milgram ) and Tell Schreiber, a stage actor and director.
Schreiber's father, who is of Austrian, Swiss, Irish, and Scottish descent, was from a wealthy " WASP " society family from Bucks County, Pennsylvania ; he graduated from Hampshire College and was a wrestling and football star.
Schreiber's mother, who now lives on an ashram in Virginia, was born into a Brooklyn working-class household of Jewish Communists, descended from immigrants from Poland, Ukraine, and Germany.
With a firm knowledge of classical music and Russian literature, she has been described by Schreiber as a " far-out Socialist Labor Party hippie bohemian freak who hung out with William Burroughs.
His mother has said that she named him after her favorite Russian author, Leo Tolstoy, while his father has stated that Schreiber was named after the doctor who saved his mother's life.
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