Christoph Waltz: The actor’s fortune

How rich is Christoph Waltz?

Christoph Waltz has been an actor for more than 40 years. However, it did not celebrate its international breakthrough until the end of the 2000s. He owes him two films by director Quentin Tarantino. For his achievements in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained Waltz won an Oscar for best supporting actor. He then worked as a villain in the James Bond film, among other things Specter to see. The cherished Christoph Waltz’s assets amount to 25 million euros.

Christoph Waltz’s fees

Soon after starting his career, Christoph Waltz was earning five-digit euros a year as an actor. By the time he appeared in his first Hollywood film in 2009, he should have earned up to 2.5 million euros with German-language productions. His fee for Inglourious Basterds (2009) was estimated to be around four million euros. After winning his first Oscar in 2010, he was able to call up a similarly high salary for all film projects, thereby further increasing his fortune.

Member of a theater family

Christoph Waltz was born into a family with a theater background. His German father Johannes Waltz was a set designer, his Austrian mother Elisabeth Urbancic worked as a costume designer. Both one of his grandmothers and his step-grandfather and great-grandfather were actors. After graduating from school Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. In the late 1970s he also attended the Lee Strassberg Institute in New York at times. Soon afterwards he was engaged for the first theater productions in Vienna, Zurich and Cologne.

Roles as Roy Black and Oetker kidnapper

Christoph Waltz had his first appearance in a television production in 1977 in a film The debut. In the following years he mainly took on roles in individual episodes of series such as Derrick, The old, A case for two and crime scene. However, Waltz did not limit himself to German-language films and series, but also played in British and French productions. The actor became known to the general public when he appeared in the film in 1996 You Are Not Alone – The Roy Black Story was seen in the title role. In the year 2002 he played the kidnapper of the manufacturer’s son Richard Oetker in the film The dance with the devil – The kidnapping of Richard Oetker. For this, Waltz was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize.

Hollywood star with two Academy Awards

In September 2008 the Director Quentin Tarantino announced that he would have Christoph Waltz for a role in his film Inglourious Basterds has engaged. The film, which was released in theaters worldwide in August 2009, ensured Waltz’s international breakthrough. For his performance as SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, he won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for best supporting actor in addition to other prizes. Three years later he appeared again in a Quentin Tarantino film. In Django Unchained, which appeared in the USA at the end of 2012 and in German-speaking countries at the beginning of 2013, Christoph Waltz embodied the German dentist King Schultz, who works as a bounty hunter. For this, too, he won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in 2013.

Since his double Oscar success, Christoph Waltz works exclusively in US productions and can demand higher fees due to his awards. For example, he was in the James Bond film in 2015 Specter to be seen as 007 opponent Blofeld. In 2016 Waltz played in Legend of Tarzan and 2019 in Alita: Battle Angel. With Most dangerous game Waltz also played in an American series for the first time in 2020. With every engagement Christoph Waltz builds his fortune further and we will surely see him more often on the screen.

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