Pablo Tell Schreiber (born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian actor, known for his dramatic stage work and for his portrayal of Nick Sobotka on The Wire and for his role of George "Pornstache" Mendez on Orange Is the New Black, for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Awake and Sing! on Broadway. He also narrated the American Psycho audiobook.
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Early life
Schreiber was born on a hippie commune in Ymir, British Columbia, before moving to the unincorporated rural community of Winlaw, British Columbia, when he was six months old. His American father, Tell Carroll Schreiber, was an actor, as is his half-brother Liev Schreiber, son of their father's first wife, who had divorced Tell Carroll five years before Pablo was born. His mother, Lorraine Reaveley, is a Canadian body-based (restore a connection between body and mind) psychotherapist. His father, having a strong interest in literature, named Pablo after Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. His parents separated when he was 12 and Schreiber moved to Seattle, Washington, with his father. After high school, Schreiber enrolled at the University of San Francisco, where he hoped to win a spot on its basketball team. He later transferred to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 2000 with a degree in theatre.
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Career
He appeared in the films The Manchurian Candidate, Lords of Dogtown and Happythankyoumoreplease. He also had a recurring guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a sadistic rapist, and appeared in the FX series Lights Out.
In 2011, Schreiber starred in the Off-Broadway play Gruesome Playground Injuries at Second Stage Theatre. He appeared on the seventh season of Weeds as Demetri Ravitch, Nancy Botwin's drug supplier.
BuddyTV ranked him number seventy-seven on its list of "TV's Sexiest Men of 2011".
In October 2012, Schreiber landed the recurring role of George "Pornstache" Mendez on the Netflix original drama series Orange Is the New Black. On February 26, 2013, he co-starred as Virgil in NBC's drama pilot Ironside, a reboot of the 1967 series of the same name.
For his role in Orange Is the New Black, Schreiber won the We Love to Hate You Award at the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards. and received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2015.
In 2016, he co-starred as Kris "Tanto" Paronto, GRS team member and former U.S. Army Ranger in American biographical war film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The movie was directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Chuck Hogan, based on Mitchell Zuckoff's 2014 book 13 Hours. Pablo Schreiber in an interview with Comicbook.com has expressed interest in portraying James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine in a future X-Men film with Hugh Jackman already having left the role. Schreiber played Mad Sweeney in the first season of Starz's Neil Gaiman adaptation American Gods. He confirmed that he is signed for an expanded role in season two, though filming had not yet started.
Personal life
Schreiber married yoga teacher Jessica Monty in 2007; she filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in 2014. They have two sons together, Timoteo and Dante.
Filmography
Audiobooks
References
External links
- Pablo Schreiber on IMDb
- Pablo Schreiber at the Internet Broadway Database
- Pablo Schreiber at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- "The rough-and-tumble actor prepares for another demanding role" Time Out New York
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