The Austrian actor worked steadily for decades in German-language television and film, but audiences outside Europe had never heard of him.
That changed in 2009, when Quentin Tarantino cast him as Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds. Waltz was 52. He won the Best Actor award at Cannes and an Oscar for the role, then won a second Oscar a few years later for Django Unchained.
