Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian actor who became famous for playing the brilliantrole role of SS standard-bearer Hans Landa in the film "Inglourious Basterds" by quentin Tarantino. This role brought the actor prestigious film awards "Oscar", "Golden Globe", BAFTA and the Cannes Film Festival Award. Another Tarantino film, spaghetti western "Django Unchained", where Christoph Waltz played the role of King Schultz, was cemented the austrian's success. This role brought the actor another Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA.

Christoph Waltz was born into a family that had a direct connection to the world of cinema. His father, a German by birth, Johannes Waltz and mother Elisabeth Urbanczyk, born in Austria, strongly supported his son's passion for acting. His parents worked as costume designers, and Christophe's grandparents were well-known theater artists.

After graduating from the Vienna Gymnasium, Christoph Waltz became a student at the university located in his hometown. As expected, he chose the acting department. At that time, the famous director and actor Max Reinhardt held his seminars here.

After graduating, Waltz decided not to stop and went to New York, where he took aim at the famous acting school of Lee Strasberg.

Christophe studied with delight and perfected the knowledge of four languages: German, French, Italian and English.

The creative biography of Christoph Valtz dates back to the late 1970s. He was accompanied by success, which becomes clear on the list of theatrical stage, to which Waltz was invited. The young actor was included in his troupes of Hamburg, zurich and the frankfurt-on-Main theatre. Christophe had to get his own agent, who helped him to deal with the mass of offers and a busy schedule.

Christoph Valtz's career in cinema began a little later, in the early 1980s. In 1982, he was offered a role in the German-Irish project Flame and Sword: The Legend of Tristan and Isolde. The 26-year-old Waltz and his agent had high hopes for the film. The key character, whose appearance - blond, with sky-blue eyes of a young man - certainly had to be remembered by the female audience, could not lose. However, the project failed at the box office.

And then Christoph Waltz, consulting with his agent, decided to bet on a win-win option - detectives. And to agree not only to good characters, but also to negative ones. This role came to Valtz in 1991. The famous Krzysztof Szanussi offered the Viennese artist a small but bright role of Maximilian Kolbe in his film Life for Life.

Excellent played the actor and in the detective film "Commissioner Rex", agreeing to the role of maniac Martin Wolf. The negative character, as agent Valtz expected, attracted increased attention to the artist. Since then, he regularly shoots in Austrian, German, and eventually - French and British series, where the knowledge of languages was useful.

The long-awaited fame came to Valtz only in 2008. The work of 42-year-old Christophe was offered by the legendary quentin Tarantino. It is noteworthy that the actor almost gave up the role, which he was offered by the famous director. The fact is that Valtz did not like the peculiar interpretation of history. And the proposed character, the Nazi and the villain Hans Landa, did not arouse the actor's particular sympathy. The agent managed to convince Christophe. He drew attention to the main thing - the genius of the Hollywood director.

Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" has earned Christoph Valtz many awards. But the main among them was, of course, the Oscar. It is noteworthy that the statuette was presented to the Viennese actor for his supporting role. And the fact that Waltz left behind such Hollywood stars as Brad Pitt and Til Schweiger, brought Christophe to an even greater peak.

The Austrian won the second Oscar for the image of a German immigrant, Dr. King Schultz. Again, it was a project by quentin Tarantino. The drama "Django Unchained" came out in 2012 and turned into another movie hit. In addition to the Oscars, Waltz won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards.

Today in the rich filmography of this wonderful artist a lot of bright roles in acclaimed pictures. Fans of Christoph Valtz's talent especially celebrate the films with his participation "Water to elephants," "The Three Musketeers," "The Massacre" and "The Green Hornet."

In 2015, the actor appeared in the spy thriller "007: Spectre", the twenty-fourth James Bond film, the famous superspy, 007 British intelligence agent and the hero of a series of novels by Ian Fleming.

The new film becomes a link for previous Bond paintings. "007: Spectre" reveals that the antagonists of previous films were part of a single organization called Spectre. This is a global organization, which, on top of everything else, is engaged in total surveillance, including mi6 agents.

Christoph Waltz played the role of the main antagonist of this film - the head of "Spectre" Franz Oberhauser. The villain tells Bond that he was behind the failures of James Bond.

The Viennese artist calls himself a citizen of the world. Today he's in Los Angeles, tomorrow in Berlin or Vienna.

The personal life of Christoph Valtz is two marriages in which 4 children were born. Three of them gave birth to his first wife Jackie, a psychologist by profession. Son Leon graduated from yeshiva in Israel and became a rabbi. Daughters Miriam and Rachel, like Leon, live in Israel.

The artist's second wife was costume designer Judith Holste, who gave birth to her husband in 2005.

Christoph Waltz looks like another popular actor - Tim Roth. The actors are even similar in height: christoph Waltz and Tim Roth are exactly 170 cm tall. The similarity of the two actors periodically creates confusion among fans trying to remember who played in what film.

In 2016, Christoph Waltz played the main negative role in the adventure film Tarzan. A legend." The film has added a number of paintings based on the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs about a man brought up by a tribe of monkeys - Tarzan. At the same time, the film by David Yates differs from the galaxy of films and cartoons made before. Previous paintings have focused on Tarzan's life in the jungle and how the monkey man was found by researchers and brought to civilized society.

In the new film John Clayton III, Lord Graystock, who was the famous Tarzan, lives with his wife in London. Tarzan is invited to visit Congo to prove that the locals are enslaved, but has no idea that it is a trap. Captain Leon Rom (character of Christoph Valtz) lures Tarzan into the hands of Chief Mbong, who promised the military a huge amount of diamonds. The insidious military plan is to use the money of the Congolese leader to hire an army and capture the Congo.

But Tarzan, again found himself in the native jungle, transformed and ceases to be easy prey.

In 2017, the actor played the role of Cornelis Sandwurt in the British-American drama Tulip Fever. The film tells the story of the 17th century. At this time there was a short-term surge in the hype demand for tulips. Prices for rare, multicolored varieties were in the thousands of guilders per bulb and were available only to a narrow circle of aristocracy and connoisseurs. But later on the market came and speculators, far from the flower world. Prices began to grow speculatively, even simple varieties of tulips received sky-high prices. This went on for only a couple of years, until the overheated market collapsed.

In December 2017, Christoph Waltz will appear on screens in the comedy "Decrease". This is a film by Alexander Payne about an American who together with his wife decided to go through the procedure of body reduction, believing that in miniature bodies they will be easier and cheaper to live. The couple volunteered for the procedure, but at the last moment the wife changed her mind.

In 2018, the actor is scheduled to appear in the sci-fi melodramatic action film "Aelita", which is directed by Robert Rodriguez based on the manga "Battle Angel Aelita" Yukito Kishiro. Christoph Waltz will play the role of Dr. Dison Ido, who finds a broken cyborg woman (Rosa Salazar). When the cyborg regains consciousness, it turns out that the woman does not remember anything, but owns the fighting techniques.

1982 - "The Flame and the Sword: The Legend of Tristan and Isolde"

1996 - "Commissioner Rex"

1997 - "Brother of Our God"

2000 - "Ordinary Criminal"

2001 - "Dorian Gray. Devil's Portrait"

2009 - "Inglourious Basterds"

2011 - The Musketeers

2011 - "The Massacre"

2011 - "Water to elephants"

2011 - "Green Hornet"

2012 - "Django Freed"

2013 - "Theorem of zero"

2014 - "Big Eyes"

2015 - "007: Spectre"

2016 - "Tarzan. The Legend"

2017 - Tulip Fever

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Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2021

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.6M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $695K - $1.6M.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2020

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.9M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $918K - $1.3M.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2019

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.8M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $854.9K - $1.2M.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2018

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.6M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $657.4K - $1.2M.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2017

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.7M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $605.3K - $1.1M.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2016

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.9M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $988.2K - $1.6M.

Christoph Waltz Net Worth 2015

Christoph Waltz 's revenue is $1.9M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Christoph Waltz and could vary in the range between $677.1K - $1.8M.

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