Christoph Waltz
A true late bloomer in Hollywood, Christoph Waltz was one of many actors whose genius was overlooked for decades until someone was willing to take a chance on his talent. Quentin Tarantino - himself a fan of the somewhat obscure actor - was just the man to resurrect Waltz's career. A highly regarded stage, television and film actor in Europe since the mid-'70s, Waltz's career finally took off when the irreverent American director tapped him to portray the charming sadist Colonel Hans Landa in his highly-anticipated World War II thriller "Inglourious Basterds" (2009). His layered performance as the multi-lingual, deceptively suave, cold-blooded "Jew Hunter" earned Waltz a coveted Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Suddenly, the Austrian actor was an international star, working with directors like Michel Gondry in the superhero romp "The Green Hornet" (2011) and Roman Polanski in the dark comedy-drama "Carnage" (2011) before rejoining Tarantino and winning a second Academy Award for his role of a bounty hunter in "Django Unchained." Roles as varied as notorious art-world fraud Walter Keane in Tim Burton's "Big Eyes" (2014) and iconic Bond villain Blofeld in "Spectre" (2015) followed. After more than 30 years of steady film and television work in Europe, Waltz's considerable talent was finally recognized by a late-to-the-party Hollywood, and American audiences wanted more.
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Christoph Waltz
Filmography
Movies
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80% |
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The Portable Door | Humphrey Wells (Character) | - | 2023 |
96% |
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | The Fox (Voice) | - | 2022 |
54% |
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Dead for a Dollar | Max Borlund (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Most Dangerous Game | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
83% |
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No Time to Die | Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Character) | $160.8M | 2021 |
75% |
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The French Dispatch | Unknown (Character) | $16.1M | 2021 |
41% |
|
Rifkin's Festival | Death (Character) | - | 2020 |
62% |
|
Georgetown |
Ulrich Mott (Character), Director |
- | 2019 |
92% |
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QT8: The First Eight | Self | - | 2019 |
61% |
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Alita: Battle Angel | Dr. Ido (Character) | $85.8M | 2019 |
47% |
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Downsizing | Dusan (Character) | $24.4M | 2017 |
10% |
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Tulip Fever | Cornelis Sandvoort (Character) | $2.4M | 2017 |
36% |
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The Legend of Tarzan | Leon Rom (Character) | $126.6M | 2016 |
38% |
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The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
63% |
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Spectre | Oberhauser (Character) | $200.1M | 2015 |
72% |
|
Big Eyes | Walter Keane (Character) | $14.5M | 2014 |
36% |
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Horrible Bosses 2 | Bert Hanson (Character) | $54.4M | 2014 |
80% |
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Muppets Most Wanted | Self | $51.2M | 2014 |
49% |
|
The Zero Theorem | Qohen Leth (Character) | $219.4K | 2013 |
43% |
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The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2013 |
65% |
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Epic | Mandrake (Voice) | $107.5M | 2013 |
87% |
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Django Unchained | Dr. King Schultz (Character) | $162.8M | 2012 |
71% |
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Carnage | Alan Cowan (Character) | $2.5M | 2011 |
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The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu (Character) | $20.4M | 2011 |
60% |
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Water for Elephants | August (Character) | $58.7M | 2011 |
45% |
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The Green Hornet | Chudnofsky (Character) | $98.8M | 2011 |
89% |
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Inglourious Basterds | Col. Hans Landa (Character) | $120.5M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Eye of Bear | Czerny (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Instinct for Crime | Brisky (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zwei Tage Hoffnung | Michael Berg (Character) | - | 2003 |
60% |
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Gun-Shy | Johannsen (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Herr Lehmann | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riekes Liebe | Peter Karlhoff (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express |
Ossama/ |
- | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beast | Finanzbeamte Fink (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Falling Rocks | Louis (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Queen's Messenger | Ben Samm (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Time | Becker (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Final Game | Kant (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our God's Brother | Max (Character) | - | 1997 |
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Catherine the Great | Mirovich (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tourist | Stephan Görner (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Jacob | Morash (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe | Jan (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fire and Sword | Tristan (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kopfstand | Markus Dorn (Character) | - | 1981 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Most Dangerous Game | Miles Sellers (Character) | 2020 2023 |
80% | 56% | The Consultant |
Regus Patoff (Character), Executive Producer |
2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014-2015 2017 2019 2023 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2015 2022 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2010-2011 2014 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2011 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Unknown (Character) | 2012 |