Christoph Waltz
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About
Won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as SS Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds. He also won an Academy Award for playing Dr. King Schultz in Tarantino's 2012 feature Django Unchained.
Before Fame
He studied acting at Vienna's Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
Trivia
He began his professional career as a stage actor and was a prominent TV actor in Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. He was cast as Franz Oberhausen in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre and as Captain Rom in the 2016 film The Legend of Tarzan.
Family Life
He had three children with Jackie Waltz, then had a daughter with his second wife, Judith Holste.
Associated With
He starred opposite Brad Pitt and Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds.
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