photo credit: Masha Kuvshinova
Birth Name:
Christoph Waltz
Birth Place:
Vienna, Austria
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Austrian, Slovenian
Waltz is an Austrian actor well known for his role on the film, Inglourious Basterds. He plays Hans Landa in the film for which he won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor.
Waltz was born on October 4, 1956 in Austria to Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic. His mother’s maiden name suggests that she has Slovenian heritage. He is fluent in French, German and English.
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He was funny as hell in Inglorious basterds
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he probably has distant slovenian ancestry,like me.It’s common in my region (friuli) and in austria or hungary.
He’s a great and superb actor,he acted in a lot of european tv series and films..I’m happy that now he’s popular also in Usa.
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