Christoph Waltz

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 2000s. He owes him two films by director Quentin Tarantino. Waltz won an Oscar for the best supporting actor for his Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained performances. He was then seen, among other things, as a villain in the James Bond film Specter. Christoph Waltz’s estimated net worth is € 25 million.

Christoph Waltz’s fees

Soon after starting his career, Christoph Waltz earned 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. Soon afterward, he was engaged in Vienna, Zurich, and Cologne for the first theater productions.

Roles as Roy Black and Oetker kidnapper

Christoph Waltz made his first appearance in television production in 1977 in the film Der Einstand. In the following years, he mainly took on roles in individual episodes of series such as Derrick, Der Alte, Ein Fall für Zwei, and Tatort. However, Waltz did not limit himself to German-language films and series and played in British and French productions. The actor became known to the general public when he starred in the title role in the 1996 film You Are Not Alone – The Roy Black Story. In 2002 he played the kidnapper of the manufacturer’s son Richard Oetker in the film The dance with the devil – Richard Oetker’s kidnapping. For this, Waltz was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize.

Hollywood star with two Academy Awards

In September 2008, was director Quentin Tarantino announced that he for a role in his film Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds had been 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 was again involved 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 has only worked in US productions and, due to his awards, can also demand higher fees. For example, in 2015, he was seen in the James Bond film Specter as 007 opponent Blofeld. In 2016 Waltz starred in Legend of Tarzan and 2019 in Alita: Battle Angel. With Most Dangerous Game, Waltz also played for the first time in an American series 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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