Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber checked into a hospital on Sunday after suffering a dramatic headache.
The ex-partner of Naomi Watts spent the night at the hospital under doctor’s orders and on Monday went through a ‘battery of tests’ according to TMZ.
The site added that the 58-year-old New York-based actor was able to move about fine during his stay. It’s currently unclear what caused Schreiber’s headache.
Daily Mail has reached out to his rep for comment.
Schreiber made his breakthrough in the 1996 movie Scream. His more recent credits are The Perfect Couple and Caught Stealing.
The San Francisco native is married to Taylor Neisen, 32; they met in 2017, married in July 2023, and had their first child, a daughter named Hazel Bee, in August 2023.
Liev Schreiber, 58, checked into a hospital on Sunday after suffering a dramatic headache. The actor spent the night at the hospital under doctor’s orders and on Monday went through a ‘battery of tests’ according to TMZ; Pictured in February 2016
He also shares son Sasha, 17, and daughter Kai, 16 — who came out as transgender earlier this year — with his ex Naomi, 57.
The pair dated for 11 years before splitting up in September 2016.
It’s not the first time the actor has had a health scare related to a headache.
In 2024, he revealed that he was diagnosed with a rare condition called transient global amnesia (TGA), brought on by a migraine, while starring in ‘Doubt: A Parable’ on Broadway.
TGA is a rare, benign condition characterized by a sudden episode of memory loss that resolves completely within 24 hours, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
‘The worst nightmare that an actor could possibly ever experience. I was in my dressing room and I had a terrible headache. I thought it was maybe a fast-food headache, but it felt a little stronger than that,’ he shared during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
‘I’m walking down the stairs and I’m thinking, “This is not normal. I don’t feel okay.”‘
He said he knew ‘something was really wrong’ when he saw his co-star, Amy Ryan, backstage but could not remember her name.
The Ray Donovan star was able to move about fine during his stay. It’s currently unclear what caused Schreiber’s headache; Pictured in 2024
This is not the actor’s first headache-related scare. In 2024, he revealed his diagnosis of transient global amnesia, a rare condition of sudden memory loss triggered by a migraine; Seen with ex Naomi Watts, 57, in 2016
The San Francisco native is married to Taylor Neisen, 32; they met in 2017, married in July 2023, and had their first child, a daughter named Hazel Bee, in August 2023; Seen in August
He also shares son Sasha, 17, and daughter Kai, 16 — who came out as transgender earlier this year — with his ex Naomi. The pair dated for 11 years before splitting up in September 2016
His condition worsened when he stepped back onstage and could not remember his lines.
‘It all vanishes,’ he explained. ‘The play is gone from my head… I know I’m in a play, but I don’t know what play I’m in.’
‘My doctor, who’s a friend, shows up, and he had a terrified expression. My wife shows up, and she looks terrified. I think, “Okay, I’ve had a stroke. This is it.”‘
Despite being diagnosed with Transient Global Amnesia, Schreiber was certain he had suffered a stroke.
‘The guy said, “You’ll never have this again and it’ll be gone in 8 to 24 hours,” which I didn’t believe. You know, as a typical sort of Jewish hypochondriac person, I’m convinced that I had a stroke and they just didn’t find it.’
Schreiber revealed that he got an MRI and it showed that there was no brain bleed, and that his brain looked ‘perfectly fine.’
‘Apparently it’s brought on by migraines and rigorous coitus,’ he quipped.
‘I go to sleep, I wake up, I remember the whole play,’ he recalled. ‘I never had another problem with it. I was embarrassed and thought everyone would think I was lying and taking a night off from the theater.’
Schreiber made his breakthrough in the 1996 movie Scream. His more recent credits are The Perfect Couple and Caught Stealing; Seen in a still from The Perfect Couple with Nicole Kidman
Meyers joked that it was ‘so sad’ that the Emmy-nominated star got TGA from a migraine and not from sex.
‘I know! When the other option is to literally have your brains f***** out, I had to get it from a migraine,’ Schreiber said with a laugh.
Schreiber is perhaps best known for starring in the title role of the Showtime crime drama series Ray Donovan, which aired from 2013 until 2020.
He has been nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards in the past.
