Birth Name: Christian Morgan Bale
Height: 6' 2"
Nationality: British
Date: January 30, 1974
Birth Place: Haverford, West Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Occupation: actor
Education: college in Southern California in the mid-1990s
Wife: Sibi Blasic (aka Sandra Bale; married on January 29, 2000)
Claim to fame: as James Graham in Empire of the Sun (1987)

Facts about Christian Bale

Bale will star as Bruce Wayne in a new BATMAN movie -- MEMENTO filmmaker Christopher Nolan will direct the movie, which is set to begin filming in early 2004. (September 12, 2003)

A devoted animal lover, Christian has two dogs [Mojo and Ramone] and three cats [Miriam, Molly, and Lilly], which are all strays that he found.

Bale was handpicked by Winona Ryder for the coveted role of Laurie (Theodore Laurence) in LITTLE WOMEN.

Hand-picked by director/writer Harron, Mary and author Bret Easton Ellis to star in AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000). Consequently, was noted by the media as the first star of AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000), only to lose the part to Leonardo DiCaprio, and then win it back again.

He has an uncanny ear for accents - he has used a different accent for each of his films to date.

He is an excellent horseman and an avid reader.

He trained for 10 weeks in dancing and martial arts for the dance sequences in Newsies and Swing Kids.

Since reading Charlotte's Web, Christian does not eat red meat.

On location in Prague in near freezing weather, 'Bale, Christian' was visited by 'Spielberg, Steven'(director of his feature film debut EMPIRE OF THE SUN (1987)) to play in SWING KIDS (1993). Spielberg was also in Prague filming SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993).

Christian Bale won Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1989 for EMPIRE OF THE SUN

Over Christian Bale's shoulder in one of the close-up shots during the last scene of AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000), when Patrick is having drinks with his friends, one can see a plaque above a door that reads: This is not an exit. That phrase appears as the last line of the book the movie is based on.

Personal quotes:
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in." (Spin, March 96)

"I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing."

"(It was) horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing. - on dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun at age 13."

" I enjoyed making the film, but I was shocked when I received all the attention when I got home to Bournemouth. Girls were all over me, boys wanted to fight me and I was being asked to open local fetes when all I wanted to do was ride my BMX bike in the woods. I told my parents I wasn't interested in doing anything again because the attention ruined it. - on the sudden fame that resulted after Empire of the Sun."

" I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them." [on getting braces]