| Jméno: | Christoph Waltz |
| Datum narození: | 1956-10-04 |
| Místo narození: | Vienna, Austria |
| Výška: | 1.70 m |
| IMDb ID: | nm0910607 |
Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 1956) is an Austrian actor who also holds German citizenship. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010.
- Native language is German. Is fluent in English and French and is skilled at mimicking Italian speech.
- The first actor to win an Oscar for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film. He received Best Supporting Actor for both Hanebný pancharti (2009) and Nespoutaný Django (2012). He remained the only actor to win an Academy Award in a Tarantino film until Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2020.
- Is only one of seven actors who have a 2-0 winning record when nominated for an acting Oscar, his two wins for Hanebný pancharti (2009) and Nespoutaný Django (2012). The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Vivien Leigh for Jih proti Severu (1939) and Tramvaj do stanice Touha (1951); Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Letiště (1970); Kevin Spacey for Obvyklí podezřelí (1995) and Americká krása (1999); Hilary Swank for Kluci nepláčou (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004); and Mahershala Ali for Moonlight (2016) and Zelená kniha (2018).
- Despite being born in Austria, he was born with German citizenship (and kept it all his life) since his father was German.
- Both his Oscar-winning performances were directed by Quentin Tarantino. This makes him one of four actors to win two Oscars under the same person's direction. The other three are: Walter Brennan for Come and Get It (1936) and The Westerner (1940) (both directed by William Wyler), Jack Nicholson for Cena za něžnost (1983) and Lepší už to nebude (1997) (both directed by James L. Brooks) and Dianne Wiest for Hana a její sestry (1986) and Výstřely na Broadwayi (1994) (both directed by Woody Allen).
- Was originally cast as Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method (2011), but dropped out of the project in order to film Voda pro slony (2011). Viggo Mortensen was later cast instead.
- Lives in London, but his longtime companion, costume designer Judith Holste, and their daughter live in Berlin.
- Is one of 14 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Geoffrey Rush for Shine (1996), Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004), Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005), Forest Whitaker for Poslední skotský král (2006), Javier Bardem for Tahle země není pro starý (2007), Daniel Day-Lewis for Až na krev (2007) and Lincoln (2012), Heath Ledger for Temný rytíř (2008), Colin Firth for Králova rec (2010), Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010), J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014), Leonardo DiCaprio for REVENANT Zmrtvýchvstání (2015), Sam Rockwell for Tři billboardy kousek za Ebbingem (2017), and Gary Oldman for Nejtemnější hodina (2017).
- Counts Federico Fellini's Osm a půl (1963) as one of his all-time favorite films, having seen it numerous times since his teens.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard on December 1, 2014.
- Is the only Austrian actor (born in Vienna) to win two Oscars.
- He and Marcia Gay Harden are the only two actors to win an Oscar without receiving a SAG nomination for the same performance.
- Is one of six performers to win an Oscar playing a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language (for his performance in Hanebný pancharti (2009)). The others are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Benicio Del Toro and Marion Cotillard.
- He loves opera. His favorite opera composer is Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti.
- Pictured on an 80c Austrian postage stamp issued 12 July 2017.
- In 2013, he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Quentin Tarantino's anti-slavery western Nespoutaný Django (2012), where he plays a bounty hunter who opposes the enslavement of the blacks. The next year, he presented the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Lupita Nyong'o, who won for her performance as a slave in Steve McQueen's anti-slavery drama 12 let v řetězech (2013). In addition to this, his Oscar for Django was presented to him by Supporting Actress winner Octavia Spencer, who had been awarded the previous year for her performance in Černobílý svět (2011), focused on the racism against blacks.
- Similar to Robin Williams, most of the villainous characters Waltz has played have been clean-shaven, while most of the protagonists he has played have sported beards or some form of facial hair.
- Is divorced from his first wife, Jackie, an Ashkenazi Jewish psychotherapist born in Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York. They have three adult children: Miriam Waltz, Leon Waltz, a Rabbi, and Rachel Waltz, one of his daughters being an Architect.
- He is the first actor to appear in the James Bond franchise to have won two Academy Awards.
- He played the small part of a 'German spy' in the British TV-Movie link=tt0097446]Goldeneye (1989) (TV)[/link] about the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Waltz was an unknown actor then. Fleming was played by Charles Dance. 26 years later Waltz would appear in Spectre (2015) in the iconic role of James Bond's greatest villain: 'Ernst Stavro Blofeld'.
- Along with Christopher Walken in A View To A Kill (1985) and Javier Bardem (in Skyfall (2012)), he is one of three Oscar-winning actors to play a main Bond villain. Benicio Del Toro, who appeared in Povolení zabíjet (1989) as a henchman of the main villain, won his Oscar after appearing in the Bond film.
- Made his stage debut at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich (1982).
- Studied acting at the Max Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York.
- Resides in Berlin, Germany.
- Son of set designers Johannes Waltz and wife Elisabeth Urbancic.
- His stepfather Alexander Steinbrecher had previously been the stepfather of director Michael Haneke by his marriage to actress Beatrix Degenschild.
- Is one of four consecutive Oscar winners in the Best Supporting Actor category whose name begins with Chris, the other actors being Christian Bale and Christopher Plummer. Waltz won twice.
- He is related, by marriage, to famous actress, beauty queen, and inventor Hedy Lamarr. Hedy's mother was a first cousin of Friederike Persicaner, who was married to Christoph's grandfather Rudolf von Urban. Friederike, who was Jewish, was hidden by Rudolf from the Nazis during WWII.
- Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
- He is the only actor who portrayed Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld who is still alive.
