Christian Bale

Christian Bale fascinates me because he treats his own body as a set to be built and demolished. The drastic physical transformations get the headlines, but I think they are symptoms of something deeper: a refusal to let any visible trace of himself survive into the role. His Academy Award for The Fighter rewarded exactly that disappearance. What I respect most is that he took the credibility earned in character work and spent it headlining Batman without ever seeming compromised — the rare actor who can carry a blockbuster and still feel dangerous. He may be the last of the full-immersion school, and cinema is richer for it.

Name (English)

Christian Bale

Name (Japanese)

クリスチャン・ベール

Reading

くりすちゃん・べーる

Born

January 30, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

Origin

Haverfordwest, United Kingdom

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / film actor / voice actor / character actor / film producer

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• 2016 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in a Comedy
• 2004 Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• voice actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.