Christoph Waltz 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. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Waltz in 2017
Waltz in 2010
Waltz and his wife, Judith Holste, at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010
Waltz at Inglourious Basterds Premiere, Leicester Square, 23 July 2009
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 historical war action-thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are faced against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation of hunting Jews. The title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 Euro War film The Inglorious Bastards, though Tarantino's film is not a remake of it.
Theatrical release poster
Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent, and producer Lawrence Bender at a premiere for the film in August 2009
Cast and crew at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Waltz's breakthrough performance as the antagonist Hans Landa earned notable acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor