MUMBAI: German actor Christoph Waltz is all set to play former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Mike Newell‘s Reykjavik.
 
Having studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Waltz also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
 
Later, he became a prolific television actor and in 2000, he made his directorial debut with the German-language television production Wenn man sich traut.
 
Waltz, an Academy Award winning German-Austrian actor, is the first and, thus far, only actor to win in the Oscars for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film.
 
The actor is fluent in German, French, and English and peaks in his own voice when it comes to doing these languages in films.