Christian Charles Philip Bale is an Welsh-American actor[1] and voice actor, who is best known for his roles as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 horror film American Psycho, John Connor in the 2009 sci-fi action film Terminator Salvation, and Bruce Wayne/Batman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight film trilogy. He also provided both voice and motion capture for Bagheera in Netflix's 2018 live-action drama film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.
For Disney, he portrayed Jack Kelly in the 1992 musical film Newsies and voiced Thomas in the 1995 Disney animated feature film Pocahontas. He also played Thomas Berger in the 1993 Hollywood Pictures film Swing Kids, Quinn Abercromby in the 2002 Touchstone Pictures film Reign of Fire, Alfred Borden/The Professor/Bernard Fallon in The Prestige, and Ken Miles in the 2019 sports drama film Ford v Ferrari. Additionally, he voiced Howl Jenkins Pendragon in the English dub of Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle, as well as portrayed Gorr the God Butcher in the Marvel film Thor: Love and Thunder and Burt Berendsen in the Fox film Amsterdam (both released in 2022). Additionally for Miramax, he played Mandras in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Roles[]
(Reign of Fire)
(The Prestige)
(Amsterdam)
(Swing Kids)
(Ford v Ferrari)
(Captain Corelli's Mandolin)
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Trivia[]
- He was considered for the role of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, along various other actors. However, Hayden Christensen was cast in the end.[2]
- He was offered the role of the title character in Tarzan, alongside Brendan Fraser and Ben Affleck, before Tony Goldwyn landed the part.[3]
References[]
- ↑ "Christian Bale's accent is seriously confusing people in the first 'Le Mans '66' trailer". Yahoo! (Jun 3, 2019).
- ↑ "Star Wars: 10 Actors Who Almost Played Anakin Skywalker". MovieWeb (Jan 12, 2023).
- ↑ "10 FACTS CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF TARZAN]". The Wonderful World of Animation (May 3, 2022).
