Christoph Waltz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christoph Waltz
Occupation	Movie Actor
Date Of Birth	Oct 4, 1956(1956-10-04)
Age	68
Birthplace	Vienna
Country	Austria
Horoscope	Libra

Christoph Waltz Biography

Christoph Waltz is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on October 4, 1956 in Vienna, Austria. Awarded the Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and received a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the role of SS Colonel Hans Landa in Won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as SS Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino‘s 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. He also won an Academy Award for playing Dr. King Schultz in Tarantino’s 2012 feature Django Unchained.’s 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds. He also received the Academy Award for playing Dr. King Schultz in Tarantino’s 2012 film Django Unchained.

He was a co-star with He starred opposite Brad Pitt and Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds. and Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds.

Christoph Waltz (German: [ˈkrɪstɔf ˈvalts] ; born 4 October 1956) is a German- Austrian actor and director, since 2009 mainly active in the United States.

After graduating from Vienna’s Theresianum, Waltz went to study acting at the renowned Max Reinhardt Seminar. At the same time, he also studied singing and opera at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, but eventually decided that his voice was not good enough for an opera career. In the late 1970s, Waltz spent some time in New York City where he trained with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. He studied script interpretation under Adler, and credits his analytical approach to her teaching.

Three children were born to him and Jackie Waltz, then had one girl with his first wife Judith Holste.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth

Christoph Waltz is one of the richest Movie Actor from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christoph Waltz 's net worth $30 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student in the Vienna’s Max Reinhardt Seminar and also at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

His professional career began as a stage performer and was a well-known actor on television in Germany during the 1990s and 1980s. He was played by Franz Oberhausen in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre and as Captain Rom in the 2016 film The Legend of Tarzan.

Waltz was born on 4 October 1956 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Johannes Waltz, a German set designer, and Elisabeth Urbancic, an Austrian costume designer. Waltz comes from a family of theatrical heritage: his maternal grandmother was Burgtheater and silent film actress Maria Mayen, and his step- grandfather, Emmerich Reimers, and his great-grandfather, Georg Reimers, were both stage actors who also appeared in silent films. Waltz’s maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychiatrist and a student of Sigmund Freud.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Christoph Waltz Dating?

According to our records, Christoph Waltz married to Judith Holste. As of December 1, 2023, Christoph Waltz’s is not dating anyone.

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Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky in The Green Hornet (2011); that same year, he starred in Water for Elephants and Roman Polanski’s Carnage. He played German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), a role Tarantino wrote specifically for Waltz. During a training accident prior to filming, Waltz injured his pelvis. His role garnered him acclaim once again, with Waltz winning the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and ultimately the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Facts & Trivia

Christoph Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Austria. Christoph Waltz celebrates birthday on October 4 of every year.

Waltz has been cast as the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the film Reykjavik, based on the 1986 peace talks between the United States and USSR. In April 2013, he was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He directed a production of the opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera, in Antwerp in late 2013, and in Ghent early 2014. In 2014, he was selected as a member of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. He starred as Walter Keane in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, which opened on 25 December 2014, and appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre, the 24th film in the James Bond franchise. In July 2019, it was reported that Waltz would reprise the role in No Time to Die (2020).

What is Christoph Waltz known for?

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino , receiving acclaim for portraying SS- Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012).

Who is the only person to win an Oscar for acting in a Quentin Tarantino

film?

Viggo Mortensen was later cast instead. The first actor to win an Oscar for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film. He received Best Supporting Actor for both Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012).

Is Christoph Waltz fluent in German?

The European actor can include trilingual talents to his resume. The languages he speaks fluently? English, French and German. “I grew up German speaking in Austria and then I learned English and French, then I picked up this fake Italian accent,” he told Ask Men.

What movies was Christopher Waltz in?

Appears in

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