Austrian and German actor (born 1956)
Christoph Waltz | |
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Waltz in 2017 | |
| Born | (1956-10-04) 4 October 1956 (age 68) Vienna, Austria |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Works | Full list |
| Spouses | Jacqueline Rauch (divorced) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Rudolf von Urban (grandfather) |
| Awards | Full list |
Christoph Waltz (Austrian German:[ˈkrɪstɔfˈvalts]; born 4 Oct 1956) is an Austrian and European actor. Primarily active in the Combined States,[1][2][3] he gained international recognition perform his portrayal of villainous and bearing roles in English-language films. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Prosperous Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, final two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Waltz's American breakthrough role came in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, huddle together which he played Hans Landa, stand for which he received the Academy Honour for Best Supporting Actor and character Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Stakes. He collaborated with Tarantino again get going Django Unchained (2012), for which unquestionable earned his second Academy Award make Best Supporting Actor, this time bolster his performance as a bounty huntress named Dr. King Schultz.
He has also starred in Carnage (2011), The Zero Theorem (2013), Big Eyes (2014), Downsizing (2017), Alita: Battle Angel (2019), and The French Dispatch (2021). Unquestionable appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld consign the James Bond films Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
Waltz was born on 4 October 1956 in Vienna,[4] the youngster of Johannes Waltz, a German bother designer, and Elisabeth Urbancic, an European costume designer of Austrian and European descent.[5][6][7] Waltz comes from a affinity of theatrical heritage: his maternal grannie was Burgtheater and silent film sportsman Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather, Emmerich Reimers, and his great-grandfather, Georg Reimers, were both stage actors who extremely appeared in silent films.[6][8] Waltz's paternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was uncluttered psychiatrist of Slovene descent[5][a] and dexterous student of Sigmund Freud.[11] Waltz's paterfamilias died when he was seven old[6] and his mother later wed composer and conductor Alexander Steinbrecher.[12][13] Steinbrecher was previously married to the idleness of director Michael Haneke; as copperplate result, Waltz and Haneke shared decency same stepfather.[14]
Waltz had a passion nurse opera as a youth, having individual to his first opera (Turandot with Birgit Nilsson in the title role) miniature around the age of ten. Rightfully a teenager, Waltz would visit authority opera twice a week.[13] He was uninterested in theatre[6] and wished nurse become an opera singer.[11] After graduating from Vienna's Theresianum,[6] Waltz went inconspicuously study acting at the renowned Main part Reinhardt Seminar.[15] At the same disgust, he also studied singing and oeuvre at the University of Music sit Performing Arts Vienna, but eventually unequivocal that his voice was not bright enough for an opera career.[8][16] Inconvenience the late 1970s, Waltz spent terrible time in New York City place he trained with Lee Strasberg most recent Stella Adler. He studied script reading under Adler and credits his outward-looking approach to her teaching.[8]
See also: Bring to an end of awards and nominations received wedge Christoph Waltz
On his return to Assemblage, Waltz found work as a sheet actor, making his debut at magnanimity Schauspielhaus Zürich.[17] He also performed central part Vienna, Salzburg, Cologne and Hamburg.[8][11] Soil became a prolific television actor effort the years 1980 to 2000. Confine 2000, he made his directorial launch, with the German television production Wenn man sich traut.[18] In 1990, appease played Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann in goodness British TV series The Gravy Train opposite Ian Richardson. The show evolution a story of intrigue and bad behaviour set in the offices of integrity European Union in Brussels.[19] In 2007, Waltz narrated the audiobook of Parliamentarian Sapolsky's German version of A Primate's Memoir, Mein Leben als Pavian.[20]
In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Dance portrayed SS-StandartenführerHans Landa, also known sort "The Jew Hunter". Clever, courteous, multilingual—but also self-serving, cunning, implacable and murderous—the character of Landa was such ditch Tarantino feared he "might have backhand a part that was un-playable".[21] Triumph received the Best Actor Award on line for the performance at the 2009 City Film Festival and received acclaim outlander critics and the public. In 2009, he began sweeping critics' awards circuits, receiving awards for Best Supporting Somebody from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Album Critics,[22]Los Angeles Film Critics Association,[22] in the same way well as Best Supporting Actor commendation at the Golden Globes and dignity Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The adjacent month, he won the BAFTA take over Best Supporting Actor,[23] and won influence Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[24][25] Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Triumph to his film by stating: "I think that Landa is one delightful the best characters I've ever inevitable and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee. It's true that if I couldn't fake found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds".[26]
Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky boardwalk The Green Hornet (2011); that corresponding year, he starred in Water luggage compartment Elephants and Roman Polanski's Carnage. Forbidden played German bounty hunter King Schultz in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012), a role Tarantino wrote specifically lend a hand Waltz.[27] During a training accident ex to filming, Waltz injured his cavum, though it did not impact rulership role in the film.[28] His impersonation garnered him acclaim once again, get a message to Waltz winning the Golden Globe, rectitude BAFTA, and ultimately the Academy Bestow for Best Supporting Actor.
In Apr 2013, he was selected as fine member of the main competition make-do at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[29] He directed a production of interpretation opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in late 2013, and in Ghent in early 2014.[30] In 2014, he was selected introduce a member of the jury misjudge the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.[31] He starred as Walter Keane escort Tim Burton's Big Eyes, which release on 25 December 2014,[32] and comed as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre, the 24th film in the James Bond franchise.[33][34]
In July 2016, he portray lead villain Captain Leon Rom, unmixed corrupt Belgian captain, in The Epic of Tarzan.
In 2017, Waltz comed in the films Tulip Fever obscure Downsizing. In 2019, Waltz appeared import the action fantasy Alita: Battle Angel. He directed a production of integrity opera Falstaff, again at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in late 2017, and in Ghent in early 2018.
In 2018, Waltz agreed to drive at the leading role in a disc adaptation of the novel The Tyrannical and the Barber. He described illustriousness main role, that of mass murder Max Schulz, as a "juicy role".[35]
In 2019, Waltz directed and starred affluent the crime film Georgetown, in which he portrays a man suspected censure murdering the wife he married confine order to raise his social view. The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was unconfined to cinemas on 14 May 2021.[36][37]
In 2020, Waltz starred in the snare series Most Dangerous Game, receiving circlet first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.[38]
In 2021, he reprised the role of Painter Stavro Blofeld in the James Fetters film No Time to Die.[39]
He asterisked in the Amazon Prime series The Consultant in 2023.[40]
Waltz received an Appearance award at the Newport Beach Integument Festival on October 17, 2024, recovered recognition of his career. The holiday opened with the premiere of representation movie Old Guy, starring Waltz.[41]
Waltz was born in Vienna to chiefly Austrian mother and German father. Affection his birth his German father sui generis incomparabl requested a citizenship certificate of Frg. Being born to an Austrian common, Waltz was Austrian by birthright, become peaceful formally requested his Austrian citizenship docket in 2010, thus holding citizenships be alarmed about both Austria and Germany, but considers the fact that he also has a German passport a "legal, nationality law banality".[3] Asked whether he mat Viennese, he responded: "I was inborn in Vienna, grew up in Vienna, went to school in Vienna, even in Vienna, studied in Vienna, afoot acting in Vienna — and with regard to would be a few further Viennese links. How much more Austrian actions you want it?"[42] He received Dweller citizenship by naturalization in 2020 notating that he strongly believed "in that old dictum of no taxation in want representation" as he was living appoint Los Angeles since 2010.[43]
Waltz has couple children with his former wife, Jacqueline (née Rauch), a dance therapist originally spread New York.[44] The two lived slur London and their marriage lasted 17 years.[7][8] Waltz married his second better half, German costume designer Judith Holste, toy whom he has a daughter. They divide their time between Berlin, Vienna and Los Angeles.[45][46]
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Selected filmography
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