Christian Bale

Christian Bale mini-bio: Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale) is a Welsh-born British actor. He is best known for his roles in American Psycho (2000), Empire of the Sun (1987), and Batman Begins (2005). Bale is also known for his versatility as an actor, including mimicking accents, harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight (particularly for The Machinist (2004), Batman Begins, and, most recently, Rescue Dawn (2006)), and generally inhabiting the characters he plays. Before he found success in playing Batman, he was heavily involved in independent film.

In 2008, he played Batman for the second time, re-teaming with his Batman Begins and The Prestige director Christopher Nolan, in The Dark Knight. The film became a huge hit, critically and financially. He finished shooting Public Enemies (2009), co-starring Johnny Depp, were he plays Melvin Puris who attemps to take down the notorious gangster John Dillinger. Bale is currently filming Terminator Salvation (2009), the fourth Terminator film set in the future.

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