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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-10-04 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Christoph Waltz

Biography:

Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 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.

Known For

Acting

2025

Dracula as Priest

2024

Old Guy as Danny Dolinski

2023

The Portable Door as Humphrey Wells / John Wells Snr
The Consultant as Regus Patoff

2022

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Count Volpe (voice)
Dead for a Dollar as Max Borlund

2021

Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil as Self (archive footage)
Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
The French Dispatch as Paul Duval
No Time to Die as Blofeld

2020

Little Berlin as Narrator
Staged as Christoph
Most Dangerous Game as Miles Sellars

2019

Georgetown as Ulrich Mott
Alita: Battle Angel as Dr. Dyson Ido

2017

Tulip Fever as Cornelis Sandvoort
Downsizing as Dusan Mirkovic

2016

The Legend of Tarzan as Captain Leon Rom
Clique Talk as Self

2015

Spectre as Blofeld

2014

Big Eyes as Walter Keane
Horrible Bosses 2 as Bert Hanson
Muppets Most Wanted as Christoph Waltz

2013

Epic as Mandrake (voice)
The Zero Theorem as Qohen Leth
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers as Menachem Begin (voice)
Ode to Joy as The Man

2012

Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz

2011

The Green Hornet as Chudnofsky
Carnage as Alan Cowan
Water for Elephants as August Rosenbluth

2010

Conan as Self

2009

Inglourious Basterds as COL. Hans Landa

2008

Das Geheimnis im Wald as Hans Kortmann
Todsünde as Sebastian Flies
Die Anwälte as Herbert Jahn
Polonius Fischer as Sebastian Flies

2007

Die Verzauberung as Dr. Helmut Bahr

2006

Kommissar Stolberg as Paul Büttner

2005

Der Staatsanwalt as Dr. Claudius Tressen
Die Patriarchin as Wolf Sevening

2004

Scheidungsopfer Mann as Benedikt von Arn
Mörderische Suche as Richard Benedek

2003

Berlin Blues as Arzt
Dienstreise - Was für eine Nacht as Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
Angst as Analytiker
Jennerwein as Pföderl
Gun-shy as Johannsen
Tiger Eyes See Better as Dr. Thilo Rylow
Two Days of Hope as Michael Berg
Dorian as Rolf Steiner

2002

Weihnachtsmann gesucht as Johannes Böhmke
Under Suspicion as Thomas Sell

2001

She Who Must Be Obeyed as Michael Vincey
Queen's Messenger as Ben Samm
Rieke's Love as Trainer Peter Karlhoff

2000

Falling Rocks as Louis
The Beast as Finanzbeamter Fink

1999

Die Braut as Herzog Carl August
Dessine-moi un jouet as Klaus Hermann

1998

Night Time as Becker
Das Finale as Kant
Vickys Alptraum as Johnny
Der letzte Zeuge as Martin York

1997

Our God's Brother as Max, Maksymilian Gierymski
Schimanski as Klaus Mandel

1996

1995

Ein Anfang von etwas as Herbert Sobieski
The Tourist as Stephan Görner
Prinz zu entsorgen as Roman Hertz
Die Staatsanwältin as Andreas Doepke
Kulturzeit as self

1994

Jacob as Morasch
Rosa Roth as Wietze
Inspector Rex as Martin Wolf
Faust as Gerhardt Schulze-Leitner

1992

5 Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom as Hartwig Klemmnitz

1991

The Gravy Train Goes East as Han-Joachim Dorfmann

1990

The Gravy Train as Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann
Romy Award as Self

1989

Goldeneye as German Spy
The Mortal Fortune as Guy on Train (uncredited)
Quicker Than the Eye as Polizeichef

1988

The Alien Years as Stefan Mueller

1987

1986

The Lenz Papers as Franz Sigel
Wahnfried as Friedrich Nietzsche

1985

Die Wupper as August Puderbach, Färber

1983

The Sandman as Nathanael

1982

Headstand as Markus Dorn
The Mysterious Stranger as Ernst Wasserman
Fire and Sword as Tristan

1981

The World Machine as Young Painter / New York Diner Youth

1979

Breakthrough as Paramedic
Feuer! as Karl Albrecht Schlick

1978

1977

Der Einstand as Günter Vesely
Der Alte as Hans Baumeister
Der Alte as Christian Kamp

1975

Am dam des as Self
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

Derrick as Eberhard Bothe
Derrick as Schumann
3 nach 9 as Self

1971

Polizeiruf 110 as Dr. Grins

1970

Scene of the Crime as Inspektor Passini
Scene of the Crime as Gerd Weißenbach
Scene of the Crime as Prof. Robert Henze

1964

1953

The Oscars as Self - Presenter

1948

BAMBI Awards as Self

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Wilder & Me as Billy Wilder
Frankenstein as Dr. Pretorius
Gilded Rage as Thomas Gilbert Sr.

Directing

2020

Fidelio as Director

2019

Georgetown as Director

2000

Production

2023

The Consultant as Executive Producer

2022

Dead for a Dollar as Executive Producer

2013

The Zero Theorem as Co-Producer