Caption | Waltz at the 82nd Academy Awards in March 2010 |
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Birth date | October 04, 1956 |
Birth place | Vienna, Austria |
Name | Christoph Waltz |
Nationality | Austrian, German |
Occupation | Actor |
Yearsactive | 1977–present |
Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He started as a stage actor, performing at venues such as Zurich's Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna's Burgtheater, and the Salzburg Festival. He became a prolific actor on television. In 2000, he directed his first film, the TV production Wenn man sich traut.
In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed SS Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka "The Jew Hunter". For this character who is courteous and speaks four languages but is self-serving, cunning and callous, Tarantino feared he "might have written a part that was un-playable". Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics and the public. In 2009, he began sweeping critics' awards circuits, receiving awards for Best Supporting Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 67th Golden Globe Awards and the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2009. The following month, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 82nd Academy Awards. He is also, as of 2010, the only actor to win for appearing in a Quentin Tarantino film. Waltz is a method actor, and continued to portray Landa off the set of Inglorious Basterds. Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating: "I think that Landa is one of the best characters I've ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee… It's true that if I couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds."
Waltz made his next movie Water for Elephants with Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, directed by Francis Lawrence. It was filmed in Ventura County, California; Georgia; and Tennessee.
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