Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz
Waltz in 2017
Born	(1956-10-04) 4 October 1956 (age 67) Vienna, Austria
Citizenship	Germany Austria (from 2010) United States (from 2020)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1977–present
Works	Full list
Spouses	Jacqueline Rauch ​ (divorced)​ Judith Holste
Children	4
Awards	Full list

Christoph Waltz (German: [ˈkʀɪstɔf ˈvalts]; born 4 October 1956) is an actor known for playing villainous and supporting roles in English-language films since 2009. He has been primarily active in the United States.^[1][2][3] His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

His American breakthrough role came in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, in which he played Hans Landa, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award. Waltz collaborated with Tarantino again in Django Unchained (2012), for which he earned his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, this time for his performance as a bounty hunter.

He has also starred in Carnage (2011), The Zero Theorem (2013), Big Eyes (2014), Downsizing (2017), Alita: Battle Angel (2019), and The French Dispatch (2021). He appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond films Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).