Waltz, a veteran Austrian actor hardly known outside Europe until last year, won the Golden Globe and SAG awards last month.

CNN: 'Avatar,' 'Hurt Locker' lead in Oscar nods

"That's the name of this game -- versatility, " Nancy Cartwright, a veteran voice actor best known for being Bart Simpson, told CNN.

CNN: Celebrities get animated about voice work

Though he remains deeply uncomfortable watching his work being performed, he is enjoying his life as a TV actor, stage veteran and now playwright.

WSJ: Actor Hamish Linklater evolves into playwright

The father and son - and Michael's father, veteran actor Kirk Douglas - star in a new film which opens in the US on Friday.

BBC: Zeta Jones gives birth to girl

Veteran actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of a West End play in which he was to have played Winston Churchill opposite Dame Helen Mirren's The Queen.

BBC: Robert Hardy and Dame Helen Mirren

Jim Gordon, a veteran police officer in Los Angeles, and also an aspiring actor, spent ten years at the Playhouse, starting in 1990.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

The 1, 000-year-old Doctor Parnassus (played by veteran actor Christopher Plummer), finds himself on a journey to undo a deal he has made with the devil.

CNN: The making of 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'

Donald Trump is building a tower--Ivana is, too--as are actor George Clooney, veteran Strip players like Hard Rock founder Peter Morton and Palms' impresario George Maloof.

FORBES: Damn the Bubble, Let's Build a City!

The actor has been tipped for awards success The Master, in which he plays a war veteran.

BBC: Joaquin Phoenix

Donald Trump is building a tower--Ivana is, too--as are actor George Clooney, club king Rande Gerber and veteran Strip players like Hard Rock founder Peter Morton and the Palms' impresario George Maloof.

FORBES: Damn the Bubble, Let's Build a City!