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Actor Producer Director Django Unchained Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. King Schultz in Django Unchained Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria, into a theatrical family, his mother Elisabeth Urbancic , an Austrian-born costume designer, and Johannes Waltz , a German-born stage builder. He has three siblings. His maternal grandmother was Viennese Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen , and his step-grandfather was fellow Burgtheater actor Emmerich Reimers.
His maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychologist and psychiatrist who wrote the book "Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness". Waltz attended the Theresianium and Billrothstrasse in Vienna. During the 80s, Christoph worked primarily in theatre, commuting from his home in London to Germany. Film roles soon followed. Attempts to break into English-speaking film and TV were, however, unsuccessful.
Waltz has expressed his gratitude to have been able to make a living and support his family through acting. For thirty years he worked steadily, tirelessly, in this manner. It was not until he met Quentin Tarantino that his career in Hollywood took off. Clever, courteous, and multilingual - but also self-serving, cunning, implacable, and murderous.
He played German bounty hunter Dr. Waltz resides in Berlin and Los Angeles. His wife is costume builder Judith Holste. Hedy Lamarr. Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were both from Jewish families. Hedwig had a calm childhood, but it was cinema that fascinated her. By the time she was a teenager, she decided to drop out of school and seek fame as an actress, and was a student of theater director Max Reinhardt in Berlin.
