Christoph Waltz was born on the 4 October 1956 in Vienna, Austria, one of four children, and also has German citizenship from his father – a set builder – and his mother, a costume designer. He had a deeper family tradition to uphold, as his grandmother, Maria Mayen and step-grandfather Emmerich Reimers were actors at the famous Burgtheater in Vienna. He is mostly known for his roles in movies “Inglorious Basterds” and “Django Unchained” by Quentin Tarantino, have had the biggest impact on his total net worth, and is also a director.
So, just how rich is Christoph Waltz? Well, the Austrian’s net worth is estimated to be over $20 million by sources, the larger part of his wealth having coming from his television and movie appearances on two continents, especially Hollywood movies, in a career now spanning almost 40 years. Christoph has also signed profitable endorsement deals with some large companies such as IKEA and Deutsche Telekom, who have been attracted by his acting success. The actor owns large residences in Berlin and Los Angeles. He also loves to drive top-of-the-line cars – he is a big fan of the Jaguar car brand and has several of them in his garage.
Christoph Waltz Net Worth $20 Million
Christoph Waltz has long worked in Europe, but he has also attracted the attention of American movie audience. He began acting as a teenager, and was then educated at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and later at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. After that, Waltz studied method acting in New York with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. He began his career in theater, notably in Vienna, Zurich and Salzburg, and then moved onto television, becoming noticed for his role in “The Gravy Train”.on British TV in the 1990s. When he and Quentin Tarantino started working together, his Hollywood career began flourishing. In the film “Inglorious Basterds” (2009) he played Colonel Hans Landa and the role won him a total of 20 awards, including the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, and an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award for the Best Supporting Actor. He also won all three for a second time for the film “Django Unchained” in 2012.
Christoph has been involved in almost 460 movies and 75 television shows to date, including a couple as director, producer and writer, and has a total of 79 nominations and 36 award wins. He is the only Austrian actor to have won two Oscars and the first and, so far, only actor to win an Oscar for acting in a Tarantino film.
In his personal life, Waltz has three adult children from a previous marriage, and a daughter with second wife Judith Holste. He is fluent in English, German and French, and says that he can mimic Italian fluently all of which have no doubt aided his career. Christoph Waltz currently divides his time between the cities of Berlin, London and Los Angeles due to work-related requirements. He loves opera, singing and musicals.
The award winning artist has even given his support to fund-raising events for charities like UNICEF. Despite being rich and famous, he is very modest. When interviewed about his quick success in Hollywood, he said: “It can be very annoying. Sometimes everything goes very smoothly, but sometimes it’s a real mess.” He is known to be a very reserved person and hardly ever talks about his personal life in his interviews to media.
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