Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz was born on the 4^th October 1956; he is an Austrian actor. He is best known for the works he did with moviemaker from America called Quentin Tarantino. He got acclaimed for playing the role of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the movie called Inglourious Basterds of the year 2009 and bouty Hunter called Dr. King Schultz in the movie called Django Unchained in the year 2012. For every performance, he always win the Academy award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Christoph Waltz was born in the city of vienna, he is the son of a German-born Johannes Waltz and Austrian-born Elisabeth Urbancic.

Christoph Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in the city of vienna. He also went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in the New York. At first, Christoph Waltz started as a stage actor, he performed in many places like the in the city of Zurich in the Schauspielhaus Zürich and in the Burgtheatre of the city of vienna as well as in the Salzburg Festival. He became a successful TV actor. He directed his first movie in the country in the year 2000 with the German production called Wenn man Sich traut. Before he became so popular to much more number of people , Christoph Waltz played the role of Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann in the TV series of Britain called Inglourious Basterds.

Christoph Waltz has three children - Miriam, Leon, and Rachel from his first wife Jackie who is a psychotherapist. He is currently raising a young daughter with the wife called Judith Holste and they reside in the city of Berlin, London and in Los Angeles.

He is fluent in the english, French and in the German languages and he spoke the three languages in the movies called Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

Selected Filmography

Films

Ø  1979, Feurer!

Ø  1981, Kopfstand

Ø  1982, Fire and Sword

Ø  1982, The Mysterious Stranger

Ø  1982, Dr. Margarete Johnsohn

Ø  1986, Wahnfried

Ø  1987, Das andere Leben

Ø  1988, The Alien Years

Ø  1988, Quicker Than the Eye

Ø  1989, Goldeneye

Ø  1991, Życie za życie

Ø  1992, 5 Zimmer, Küche, Bad

Ø  1992, Die Angst wird bleiben

Ø  1994, Tag der Abrechnung - Der Amokläufer von Euskirchen

Ø  1994, Jacob

Ø  1994, Die Staatsanwältin

Ø  1995, Ein Anfang von etwas

Ø  1995, Prinz zu entsorgen

Ø  1995, Man(n) sucht Frau

Ø  1995, Catherine the Great

Ø  1996, Der Tourist

Ø  1996, Du bist nicht allein – Die Roy Black Story

Ø  1997, Our God's Brother

Ø  1998, Vickys Alptraum

Ø  1998, Schock - Eine Frau in Angst

Ø  1998, Sieben Monde

Ø  1998, The Final Game

Ø  1998, Love Scenes from Planet Earth

Ø  1998, Rache für mein totes Kind

Ø  1998, Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten

Ø  1999, Die Braut

Ø  1999, Dessine-moi un jouet

Ø  2000, Wenn man sich traut

Ø  2000, Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express

Ø  2000, Ordinary Decent Criminal

Ø  2000, Falling Rocks

Ø  2000, The Beast

Ø  2001, She

Ø  2001, Queen's Messenger

Ø  2001, Engel sucht Flügel

Ø  2001, Riekes Liebe

Ø  2001, Der Tanz mit dem Teufel

Ø  2002, Dienstreise – Was für eine Nacht

Ø  2002, Weihnachtsmann gesucht

Ø  2003, Angst

Ø  2003, Jagd auf den Flammenmann

Ø  2003, Der Fall Gehring

Ø  2003, Zwei Tage Hoffnung

Ø  2003, Jennerwein

Ø  2003, Gun-shy

Ø  2003, Tigeraugen sehen besser

Ø  2003, Herr Lehmann

Ø  2004, Scheidungsopfer Mann

Ø  2004, Dorian

Ø  2004, Mörderische Suche

Ø  2004, Schöne Witwen küssen besser

Ø  2006, Lapislazuli - Im Auge des Bären

Ø  2006, Franziskas Gespür für Männer

Ø  2007, Die Zürcher Verlobung – Drehbuch zur Liebe

Ø  2007, Die Verzauberung

Ø  2008, Das Geheimnis im Wald

Ø  2008, Todsünde

Ø  2008, Das jüngste Gericht

Ø  2009, Inglourious Basterds

Ø  2011, The Green Hornet

Ø  2011, Water for Elephants

Ø  2011, The Three Musketeers

Ø  2011, Carnage

Ø  2012, Django Unchained

Ø  2013, Epic

Ø  2013, The Zero Theorem

Ø  2014, Muppets Most Wanted

Ø  2014, Big Eyes

Ø  2014, Horrible Bosses 2

Ø  2015, Tulip Fever

Ø  2016, Tarzan

TV

Ø  1979, Parole Chicago

Ø  1985, A Case for Two

Ø  1986, Lenz oder die Freiheit

Ø  1986–1988, Derrick

Ø  1986–1990, The Old Fox

Ø  1987–2008, Tatort

Ø  1990, The Gravy Train

Ø  1991, The Gravy Train Goes East

Ø  1993, A King for Burning

Ø  1995, The All New Alexei Sayle Show

Ø  1996, Rosa Roth

Ø  1996, Rex: A Cop's Best Friend

Ø  1997, Maître Da Costa

Ø  1997, Faust

Ø  1997, Schimanski

Ø  2005, Die Patriarchin

Ø  2005, Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

Ø  2006, Die Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main

Ø  2006, Polizeiruf 110

Ø  2006, Stolberg

Ø  2007, Der Staatsanwalt

Ø  2007, Der letzte Zeuge

Ø  2007, Unter Verdacht

Ø  2008, Die Anwälte

Ø  2013, Saturday Night Live