Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 1956) is an Austria actor and director, who’s been mainly active in the United States since 2009. His breakout American role came in Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds (2009), with Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent; where he played SS officer Hans Landa. He would later collaborate with Tarantino once again with Django Unchained (2012), with Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson; where he played bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained. For each performance, he earned an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Other notable films of the 2010s include Michel Gondry‘s The Green Hornet (2011), with Seth Rogen; Water for Elephants (2011), with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson; Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers (2011), with Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelsen, and Orlando Bloom; Roman Polanski’s Carnage (2011), with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, and John C. Reilly; a voice role in Epic (2013), with Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, and Beyoncé Knowles; Terry Gilliam‘s The Zero Theorem (2013), with David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry, and Lucas Hedges; Horrible Bosses 2 (2013), with Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Lindsay Sloan, and Chris Pine; and Tim Burton‘s Big Eyes (2014), with Any Adams, Danny Huston, Jon Polito, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, and Terrence Stamp.
Films in the mid to late 2010s include Sam Mendes’s Spectre (2015), with Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, Jeffrey Wright, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes; The Legend of Tarzan (2016), with Alexander Skarsgård, Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou; Justin Chadwick’s Tulip Fever (2017), with Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O’Connell, Holliday Grainger, Tom Hollander, Matthew Morrison, Kevin McKidd, Douglas Hodge, Joanna Scanlan, Zach Galifianakis, and Judi Dench; Alexander Payne’s Downsizing (2017), with Matt Damon, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig; Robert Rodriguez‘s Alita: Battle Angel (2019), with Rosa Salazar, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, and Keean Johnson; and Georgetown (2019), with Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening and Corey Hawkins – the later he also directed.
Films in the 2020s include Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival (2020), with Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, and Wallace Shawn; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch (2021), with Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Seydoux, Owen Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park, Bill Murray; Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die (2021), with Craig, Seydoux, Whishaw, Harris, Wright, Fiennes, Kinnear, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah; Walter Hill’s Dead for a Dollar (2022), with Willam Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Brandon Scott, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt, and Hamish Linklater; a voice role in Guillermo del Toro‘s Pinocchio (2021), with the voices of Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Finn Wolfhard, Burn Gorman, and John Turturro; The Portable Door (2023), with Patrick Gibson, Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Rachel House, Chris Pang, Jessica De Gouw, Damon Herriman, and Sam Neill; Simon West’s Old Guy (2024), with Lucy Liu and Cooper Hoffman; Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Tale of Love (2025), with Caleb Landry Jones, Zoë Bleu, Matilda De Angelis, Ewens Abid, David Shields, and Guillaume de Tonquédec; and Frankenstein (2025), with Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, Bradley, Lauren Collins, and Charles Dance.
He starred in the web series Most Dangerous Game (2020-2023), Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Gadon, and David Castañeda – for which he garnered a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. He also starred in the Amazon series The Consultant (2023), with Nat Wolff, Brittany O’Grady, and Aimee Carrero; and had a recurring role in Season 5 of Only Murders in the Building (2021-), with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez.
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(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Breakthrough (1979) – directed by Andrew V. McLaglen – uncredited
- Headstand (1981) – directed by Veith von Fürstenberg
- Fire and Sword (1982) – directed by Veith von Fürstenberg
- Wahnfried (1986) – directed by Peter Patzak
- Quicker Than the Eye (1988) – directed by Nicolas Gessner
- Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991) – directed by Krzysztof Zanussi – credited as Chistopher Waltz
- The Start of Something (1995) – directed by Nikolaus Leytner
- Our God’s Brother (1997) – directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Seven Moons (1998) – directed by Peter Fratzscher
- Love Scenes from Planet Earth (1998) – directed by Marc Rothemund
- The Bride (1999) – directed by Egon Günther
- Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) – directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan
- Falling Rocks (2000) – directed by Peter Keglevic
- Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express (2000) – directed by Mark Roper
- Queen’s Messenger (2001) – directed by Mark Roper
- She (2001) – directed by Timothy Bond
- Angst (2003) – directed by Oskar Roehler
- Gun-Shy (2003) – directed by Dito Tsintsadze
- Berlin Blues (2003) – directed by Leander Haußmann
- Pact with the Devil (2004) – directed by Allan A. Goldstein
- Lapislazuli: In the Eyes of the Bear (2006) – Wolfgang Murnberger
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)* – directed by Quentin Tarantino
- The Green Hornet (2011)* – directed by Michel Gondry
- Water for Elephants (2011) – directed by Francis Lawrence
- The Three Musketeers (2011) – directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
- Carnage (2011) – directed by Roman Polanski
- Django Unchained (2012)* – directed by Quentin Tarantino
- Epic (2013) – directed by Chris Wedge
- The Zero Theorem (2013) – directed by Terry Gilliam – also co-producer
- Muppets Most Wanted (2014)* – directed by James Bobin – cameo as himself
- Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) – directed by Sean Anders
- Big Eyes (2014) – directed by Tim Burton
- Spectre (2015) – directed by Sam Mendes
- The Legend of Tarzan (2016) – directed by David Yates
- Tulip Fever (2017) – directed by Justin Chadwick
- Downsizing (2017) – directed by Alexander Payne
- Alita: Battle Angel (2019)* – directed by Robert Rodriguez
- Georgetown (2019) – also director
- QT8 First Eight (2019) – Tara Wood – self – documentary
- Rifkin’s Festival (2020) – directed by Woody Allen
- No Time to Die (2021) – directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Pinocchio (2021) – directed by Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)* – directed by Wes Anderson
- The Portable Door (2023) – directed by Jeffrey Walker
- Old Guy (2024) – directed by Simon West
- Dracula: A Tale of Love (2025) – directed by Luc Besson
- Frankenstein (2025)* – directed by Guillermo del Toro
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