Christoph Waltz

Austrian and German actor

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Born 1956 · age 70Germany

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71 languages
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Rank in Germany
#218
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Age
70
Born 1956
Known for
Dracula
2025

Summary

Updated 2026-06-21

Christoph Waltz owns the screen as the villain you can't stop watching — the SS officer in Inglourious Basterds, the Bond arch-nemesis Blofeld. Two Oscars, both for playing men who smile while the threat unfolds.

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Waltz spent decades working German television and theatre before Quentin Tarantino cast him as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds in 2009, a performance that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He reunited with Tarantino three years later in Django Unchained, playing bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz — a second Oscar in the same category. The roles that followed leaned into that precision: Ernst Stavro Blofeld across two James Bond films, plus turns in Carnage, Big Eyes, Downsizing, Alita: Battle Angel, and The French Dispatch. Bo…

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