The Christoph Waltz Handbook - Everything you need to know about Christoph Waltz

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Christoph Waltz (German pronunciation: [kristof valts]; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian actor, who also holds German citizenship.
He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS-Standartenführer 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, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009.
Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria.

He is the son of German-born Johannes Waltz and Austrian-born Elisabeth Urbancic, set and stage designers. His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers.

His great-grandparents also worked in the theatre.

This book is your ultimate resource for Christoph Waltz. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Christoph Waltz, Fire and Sword, Wahnfried (film), The Alien Years, Catherine the Great (1995 film), The Final Game, Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit, Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Inglourious Basterds, The Green Hornet (2011 film), Water for Elephants (film), Carnage (2011 film), The Three Musketeers (2011 film).

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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• EAN13: 9781743336052
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Christoph Waltz Fire and Sword Wahnfried (film) The Alien Years Catherine the Great (1995 film) The Final Game Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express Ordinary Decent Criminal Inglourious Basterds The Green Hornet (2011 film) Water for Elephants (film) Carnage (2011 film) The Three Musketeers (2011 film)

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Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz

Waltz at the 82nd Academy Awards in March 2010

Born

Nationality

Occupation

Years active

4 October 1956 Vienna, Austria

Austrian, German

Actor

1977–present

[1] [2] [3] Christoph Waltz( German pronunciation: [kristɔf valts]; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian-German actor. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the 2009 filmInglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009.

Early life Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria. He is the son of German-born Johannes Waltz and Austrian-born Elisabeth [4] [5] Urbancic, set and stage designers. His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen and his [6] [7] step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers. His great-grandparents worked in the theatre.

Career 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 productionWenn man sich traut. In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 filmInglourious 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, [8] 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

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Christoph Waltz

[9] [10] [10] Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and for Best Supporting Actor [11] at the 67th Golden Globe Awards and the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2009. The following [12] month, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the BAFTA for Best [13] 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 [14] couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have madeInglourious Basterds." Waltz played the gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky inThe Green Hornet. Also in 2011, he starred inWater for Elephants, with Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, directed by Francis Lawrence. It was filmed in Ventura County, California; Georgia; and Tennessee.

Personal life [15] Waltz is fluent in German, French and English and speaks all three of the languages inInglourious Basterds. Though his Landa character also spoke Italian in that movie, he stated on theAdam Carolla [16] PodcastHe has threethat he does not actually speak it in real life. adult children from a prior marriage, and is raising a young daughter [17] with his wife, costume designer Judith Holste. Waltz currently [18] [19] [20] maintains residences in New York, London and Berlin .

Christoph Waltz and Judith Holste.

Nationality [1] Waltz is a dual citizen of both Austria and Germany. He considers himself Austrian, calling his German passport a [3] "legal, citizenship law banality". His father held German citizenship, so he was born with German citizenship as well. Due to this he is his own voice actor for German translations. During a press conference he said: "I was born in Vienna, grew up in Vienna, went to school in Vienna, graduated in Vienna, studied in Vienna, started acting in [21] Vienna–and there would be a few further Viennese links. How much more Austrian do you want?" He also holds a U.S. green card.

Filmography

2

Peters

Hans Kortmann

2008

2008

Das jüngste Gericht

Todsünde

Christoph Waltz

Dr. Helmut Bahr

Year

Sebastian Flies

Television

Television

Television

Television

Ordinary Decent Criminal

2000

Falling Rocks

2000

2000

2007

2008

Die Verzauberung

Mirovich

Herr Wolf

1996

Inspector Rex

1995

Catherine the Great

The Alien Years

The Final Game

1998

1988

1986

Wahnfried

DasmerkwrüdigeVerhaltengeschlechtsreifer GroßstbdterzurPaarungszeit

Doctor

Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express

Film and television

3

Tristan

Charly

Role

1982

1998

Television

Television

Television

Fire and Sword

Title

2003

Herr Lehmann

Stefan Mueller

Nietzsche

Kant

Brian

Peter

Louis

Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe

2007

Das Geheimnis im Wald

Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast

Television

Television