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Christian
Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan
Bale; born 30 January 1974) is a Screen Actors Guild
Award-nominated, Saturn Award-winning Welsh-born English actor. Bale
is best known for his roles in the films Empire of the Sun, American
Psycho, Equilibrium, The Machinist and Batman Begins. Bale is also
known for his mastery of accents and harsh regimens of shedding and
gaining weight (particularly for The Machinist, Batman Begins and,
most recently, Rescue Dawn). Before he found success in playing
Batman, he was heavily involved in independent films. Bale first
caught the public eye when he was cast in the starring role of
Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun at the age of 13, playing a
British boy who becomes separated from his parents and subsequently
finds himself in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
Since then, he has portrayed a wide range of characters. Bale is
especially noted for his cult following. The tenth anniversary issue
of Entertainment Weekly hailed him as one of the "Top 8 Most
Powerful Cult Figures of the Past Decade," citing his
impressive cult status on the Internet. I'm Not There, a film in
which Bale again worked alongside Todd Haynes and Heath Ledger (who
plays The Joker in the 2008 film The Dark Knight), is an artistic
reflection of the life of Bob Dylan. He also starred with Russell
Crowe in a commercially and critically successful remake of the
Western classic 3:10 to Yuma. Bale has been cast as the role of John
Connor in the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins film
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