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Christoph Waltz

Actor / Film Director | * 10/04/1956 (68) | Vienna (Austria)
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Christoph Waltz (Austrian German: [ˈkrɪstɔf ˈvalts]; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian and German actor. Primarily active in the United States, he gained international recognition for his portrayal of villainous and supporting roles in English-language films. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. After a substantial career in German television and theatre, Waltz's American Breakthrough role came in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, in which he played Hans Landa, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award. He collaborated with Tarantino again in Django Unchained (2012), for which he earned his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, this time for his performance as a bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz. He has also starred in Carnage (2011), ()
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Christoph Waltz (born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian actor who also holds German citizenship. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

Known for these Movies & Shows

A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract ...

The Zero Theorem

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2013 | 3.1/5 | 1h 47min
Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. ...

Django Unchained

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2012 | 4.1/5 | 2h 45min
Drama, Western
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In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally kill ...

Inglourious Basterds

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2009 | 4.1/5 | 2h 33min
Drama, Thriller, War
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After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim's parents invite Zachary's parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the inciden ...

Carnage

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2011 | 3.6/5 | 1h 20min
Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Christoph Waltz

Romy (TV award) Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 2x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor O.e. Hasse Award Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor Bavarian TV Awards European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame 2x Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture 2x BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Movies with Christoph Waltz as Actor(104)

as Thomas Gilbert Sr.2023 Gilded Rage
as Richard2023 Every Note Played
as Humphrey Wells / John Wells Snr2023 The Portable Door
as Max Borlund2022 Dead for a Dollar
as Count Volpe (voice)2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
as himself2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
as Self (archive footage)2022 Brad Pitt: More Than a Pretty Face
as Self (archive footage)2021 Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld2021 No Time to Die
as Paul Duval2021 The French Dispatch
as Self (archive footage)2021 Being James Bond
as himself2020 Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
as Death2020 Rifkin's Festival
as Narrator2020 Little Berlin
as Ulrich Mott2019 Georgetown
as Dr. Dyson Ido2019 Alita: Battle Angel
as himself2019 QT8: The First Eight
as himself2019 Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
as Dusan Mirkovic2017 Downsizing
as Cornelis Sandvoort2017 Tulip Fever
as Captain Leon Rom2016 The Legend of Tarzan
as Franz Oberhauser / Ernst Stavro Blofeld2015 Spectre
as Walter Keane2014 Big Eyes
as himself2014 Muppets Most Wanted
as Bert Hanson2014 Horrible Bosses 2
as Menachem Begin (voice)2013 The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
as Qohen Leth2013 The Zero Theorem
as Mandrake (voice)2013 Epic
as Theodor Herzl (voice)2012 It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl
as Dr. King Schultz2012 Django Unchained
as August Rosenbluth2011 Water for Elephants
as Chudnofsky2011 The Green Hornet
as Richelieu2011 The Three Musketeers
as Alan Cowan2011 Carnage
as SS Colonel Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa2009 Inglourious Basterds
as Hans Kortmann2008 Das Geheimnis im Wald
as Sebastian Flies2008 Todsünde
as Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast2007 Die Zürcher Verlobung – Drehbuch zur Liebe
as Dr. Helmut Bahr2007 Die Verzauberung
as Czerny2006 Lapislazuli - Im Auge des Bären
as Karl Löwen2006 Franziskas Gespür für Männer
as Jean-France2004 Schöne Witwen küssen besser
as Richard Benedek2004 Mörderische Suche
as Benedikt von Arn2004 Scheidungsopfer Mann
as Dr. Thilo Rylow2003 Tiger Eyes See Better
as Arzt2003 Berlin Blues
as Analytiker2003 Angst
as Rolf Steiner2003 Dorian
as Michael Berg2003 Two Days of Hope
as Klaus-Dieter Lehmann2003 One Hell of a Night
as Martin Bach2003 Der Mörder ist unter uns
as Brisky2003 Jagd auf den Flammenmann
as Pföderl2003 Jennerwein
as Johannsen2003 Gun-shy
as Johannes Böhmke2002 Weihnachtsmann gesucht
as Dieter Cilov2001 Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
as Ben Samm2001 Queen's Messenger
as Trainer Peter Karlhoff2001 Rieke's Love
as Caspari2001 Engel sucht Flügel
as Ossama/Tarik2001 Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
as Michael Vincey2001 She Who Must Be Obeyed
as Peter2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal
as Finanzbeamter Fink2000 The Beast
as Louis2000 Falling Rocks
as Herzog Carl August1999 Die Braut
as Klaus Hermann1999 Dessine-moi un jouet
as Becker1998 Night Time
as Paul1998 Rache für mein totes Kind
as Charly1998 Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature Urbanites at Mating Season
as Johnny1998 Vickys Alptraum
as Moritz Fink1998 Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten
1998 Einsteins Ende
as Max, Maksymilian Gierymski1997 Our God's Brother
as Roy Black1996 You Are Not Alone - The Roy Black Story
as Mirovich1996 Catherine the Great
as Stephan Görner1996 The Tourist
as Roman Hertz1995 Prinz zu entsorgen
as Herbert Sobieski1995 Ein Anfang von etwas
as Christoph1995 Man in Search of Woman
as Erwin Mikolajczyk1994 Tag der Abrechnung - Der Amokläufer von Euskirchen
as Morasch1994 Jacob
as Jan van Leyden1993 A King for Burning
as Hartwig Klemmnitz1992 5 Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom
as Manfred1992 Die Angst wird bleiben
1991 St. Petri Schnee
as Jan Tytz1991 Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
as German Spy1989 Goldeneye
as Polizeichef1989 Quicker Than the Eye
as Guy on Train (uncredited)1989 The Mortal Fortune
as Stefan1987 Das andere Leben
as Felix1987 Der einsame Weg
as Franz Sigel1986 The Lenz Papers
as Friedrich Nietzsche1986 Wahnfried
as August Puderbach, Färber1985 Die Wupper
as Nathanael1983 The Sandman
as Markus Dorn1982 Headstand
as Ernst Wasserman1982 The Mysterious Stranger
as Tristan1982 Fire and Sword
as Rainer1982 Dr. Margarete Johnson
as Young Painter / New York Diner Youth1981 The World Machine
as Paramedic1979 Breakthrough
as Karl Albrecht Schlick1979 Feuer!
1978 Die goldene Rose von Montreux
as Günter Vesely1977 Der Einstand

TV Shows/Series with Christoph Waltz as Actor(40)

as Regus Patoff2023 The Consultant
as Miles Sellars2020 Most Dangerous Game
as Christoph2020 Staged
as Peters2018 Сувенир из Одессы
as himself2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden
as himself2014 Der Meisterfälscher
as himself2012 Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
as himself2010 Conan
as himself2008 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Herbert Jahn2008 Die Anwälte
as himself2007 The Graham Norton Show
as Paul Büttner2006 Kommissar Stolberg
as Dr. Claudius Tressen2005 Der Staatsanwalt
as Wolf Sevening2005 Die Patriarchin
as Richard Seemann2004 Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie
as himself2003 Real Time with Bill Maher
as Thomas Sell2002 Under Suspicion
as Dr. Martin York1998 Der letzte Zeuge
as Klaus Mandel1997 Schimanski
as himself1995 Kulturzeit
as himself1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Gerhardt Schulze-Leitner1994 Faust
as Martin Wolf1994 Inspector Rex
as Wietze1994 Rosa Roth
as Han-Joachim Dorfmann1991 The Gravy Train Goes East
as Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann1990 The Gravy Train
as Stefan Mueller1988 The Alien Years
as Alf1981 A Case For Two
as himself1981 Wetten, dass..?
as Hans Baumeister1977 Der Alte
as Christian Kamp1977 Der Alte
as Self - Host1975 Saturday Night Live
as himself1975 Am dam des
as Schumann1974 Derrick
as Eberhard Bothe1974 Derrick
as himself1974 3 nach 9
as Dr. Grins1971 Polizeiruf 110
as Inspektor Passini1970 Scene of the Crime
as Gerd Weißenbach1970 Scene of the Crime
as Prof. Robert Henze1970 Scene of the Crime

Movies with Christoph Waltz as Crew(4)

Production/Executive Producer2022 Dead for a Dollar
Directing/Director2020 Fidelio
Directing/Director2019 Georgetown
Directing/Director2000 Wenn man sich traut

TV Shows/Series with Christoph Waltz as Crew(1)

Production/Executive Producer2023 The Consultant

Additional Information

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Full Name: Christoph Waltz
Born: Thursday, 10/04 1956 (October) in Vienna (Austria) (current age: 68 years + 114 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT)
Educated at: Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Theresianum, Max Reinhardt Seminar
Member of: jury at the Cannes Festival, jury at the Venice International Film Festival, jury at the Berlin International Film Festival
Father: Johannes Waltz
Mother: Elisabeth Urbancic
Related to: Rudolf von Urban, Maria Mayen
Other names for Christoph Waltz (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Кристоф Вальц"
"كريستوف فالتز"
"克里斯托弗·瓦尔兹"
"크리스토프 발츠"
"クリストフ・ヴァルツ"
"คริสทอฟ วัลซ์"
"크리스토프 왈츠"
Christoph Waltz frequently works together with these people:
Hans Georg Panczak (53x, Actor)
Philipp Moog (45x, Actor)
Dirk Galuba (43x, Actor)
Hans Peter Hallwachs (39x, Actor)
Jacques Breuer (36x, Actor)
Manfred Zapatka (35x, Actor)
Karl Kranzkowski (33x, Actor)
Hansa Czypionka (33x, Actor)
Holger Petzold (33x, Actor)
Sky du Mont (32x, Actor)
Lisa Kreuzer (31x, Actress)
Peter Keglevic (8x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:174, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 01/22/2025