Christoph Waltz
A classically trained actor of stage, screen and television who built a decades-long career in Europe before being "discovered" by director Quentin Tarantino, Christoph Waltz was born Oct. 4, 1956, in Vienna, Austria.

Waltz was virtually unknown to American audiences when Tarantino gambled by casting him as a sadistic Nazi "Jew hunter" in the bloody World War II fantasy Inglourious Basterds (2009). But the actor's penetrating turn, which found him shifting seamlessly between English, German, French and Italian dialogue -- and often stealing the show from co-star Brad Pitt -- proved so mesmerizing that, in retrospect, it seems tailor-made for his talents.

The performance garnered Waltz a Golden Globe win, a Best Actor award at Cannes and an Oscar nod and set him up for higher-profile projects, including the superhero-inspired comedy The Green Hornet, in which he portrays a Mafia mastermind.

 
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