Christoph Waltz
| Christoph Waltz | |
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Waltz at the Berlin premiere
of Spectre in October 2015 |
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| Born |
4 October 1956 Vienna, Austria |
| Citizenship | Germany, Austria |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1977–present |
Christoph Waltz (German pronunciation: [ˈkrɪstɔf ˈvalts]; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian-German actor. He is best known for his works 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). For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Additionally, he received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa.
He also portrayed computer genius Qohen Leth in the sci-fi film The Zero Theorem (2013), American plagiarist Walter Keane in the biographical film Big Eyes (2014), and 007's nemesis and head of Spectre Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre (2015), the twenty-fourth James Bond film.
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