Date of Birth : Oct 4th 1956
Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He started as a stage actor, playing at venues like Zurich’s Schauspielhaus Zürich, Vienna’s Burgtheater, or the Salzburg Festival. Later he became a prolific actor in various TV productions. In Quentin Tarantino’s epic war film/spaghetti western Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed Colonel Hans Landa, the sinister yet poetic pipe-smoking “Jew Hunter”. For this role, he received the Best Actor Award in the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Waltz is married with four children, and lives in London, England.
CAREER
Minions & Monsters ( 2026 )
