Christoph Waltz (German: ['kr?st?f 'valts]; born 4 October 1956) is a German-Austrian actor and director, mainly active in the United States.His breakout role came in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, where he played SS officer Hans Landa.
He would later collaborate with Tarantino once again in 2012, where he played bounty hunter King Schultz in Django Unchained.
For each performance, he earned an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Waltz also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa.Waltz portrayed computer genius Qohen Leth in the science fiction film The Zero Theorem (2013), American plagiarist Walter Keane in the biographical film Big Eyes (2014), and James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).