1. Christoph Waltz's accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards in addition to nomination for an Emmy Award.
32 Facts About Christoph Waltz
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Christoph Waltz collaborated with Tarantino again in Django Unchained, 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.
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Christoph Waltz has starred in Carnage, The Zero Theorem, Big Eyes, Downsizing, Alita: Battle Angel, and The French Dispatch.
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Christoph Waltz appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond films Spectre and No Time to Die.
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Christoph Waltz was born on 4 October 1956 in Vienna, the son of Johannes Christoph Waltz, a German set designer, and Elisabeth Urbancic, an Austrian costume designer of Austrian and Slovenian descent.
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Christoph Waltz's maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychiatrist of Slovene descent and a student of Sigmund Freud.
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Christoph Waltz's father died when he was seven years old and his mother later married composer and conductor Alexander Steinbrecher.
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Christoph Waltz had a passion for opera as a youth, having seen his first opera at around the age of ten.
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Christoph Waltz was uninterested in theatre and wished to become an opera singer.
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Christoph Waltz studied script interpretation under Adler and credits his analytical approach to her teaching.
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On his return to Europe, Christoph Waltz found work as a stage actor, making his debut at the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
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Christoph Waltz became a prolific television actor in the years 1980 to 2000.
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In 2007, Christoph Waltz narrated the audiobook of Robert Sapolsky's German version of A Primate's Memoir, Mein Leben als Pavian.
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In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz portrayed SS-Standartenfuhrer Hans Landa, known as "The Jew Hunter".
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Christoph Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics and the public.
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Christoph Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky in The Green Hornet ; that same year, he starred in Water for Elephants and Roman Polanski's Carnage.
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Christoph Waltz played German bounty hunter King Schultz in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, a role Tarantino wrote specifically for Waltz.
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Christoph Waltz's role garnered him acclaim , with Waltz winning the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and ultimately the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Christoph Waltz directed a production of the opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in late 2013, and in Ghent in early 2014.
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Christoph Waltz 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.
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In 2017, Christoph Waltz appeared in the films Tulip Fever and Downsizing.
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In 2019, Christoph Waltz appeared in the action fantasy Alita: Battle Angel.
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Christoph Waltz directed a production of the opera Falstaff, again at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp in late 2017, and in Ghent in early 2018.
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In 2018, Christoph Waltz agreed to play the leading role in a film adaptation of the novel The Nazi and the Barber.
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Christoph Waltz described the main role, that of mass murderer Max Schulz, as a "juicy role".
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In 2019, Christoph Waltz directed and starred in the crime film Georgetown, in which he portrays a man suspected of murdering his wife in order to raise his social status.
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In 2020, Christoph Waltz starred in the web series Most Dangerous Game, receiving his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Christoph Waltz starred in the Amazon Prime series The Consultant in 2023.
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Christoph Waltz received an Icon award at the Newport Beach Film Festival on October 17,2024, in recognition of his career.
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Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna to an Austrian mother and German father.
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Christoph Waltz has three children with his former wife, Jacqueline, a dance therapist originally from New York.
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Christoph Waltz married his second wife, German costume designer Judith Holste, with whom he has a daughter.