33 Facts About Christoph Waltz

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Christoph Waltz is known for playing villainous and supporting roles in English-language films since 2009; he has been primarily active in the United States.

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Christoph Waltz's accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Christoph Waltz collaborated with Tarantino again playing bounty hunter Dr King Schultz in Django Unchained for which he earned his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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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 James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre, and No Time to Die.

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Christoph Waltz voiced Mandrake in Epic and Count Volpe in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.

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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 in Zurich.

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Christoph Waltz became a prolific television actor in the years 1980 to 2000.

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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 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 made his directorial debut and starred in the crime film Georgetown, in which he portrays a man suspected of murdering the wife he married in order to raise his social status.

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In 2021, Christoph Waltz reprised the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film No Time to Die.

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Christoph Waltz has four 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.

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Christoph Waltz speaks German, English, and French in Django Unchained, and Italian in Inglourious Basterds.

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Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna to a German father who applied for him to become a citizen of Germany after his birth.

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Christoph Waltz received Austrian citizenship in 2010, thus holding citizenships of both Austria and Germany, but considers the debate concerning his citizenship a "legal, citizenship law banality", as he did not care about it at all even though he had not previously been able to vote in Austria's national elections.