Happy Birthday to Batman Himself, Christian Bale!

January 30 is the birthday of the Bruce Wayne/Moses/John Connor all rolled into one: Christian Bale!

Bale is the first non-American to play Batman, having been born in Pembrokeshire, Wales in the United Kingdom in 1974. He had a breakthough role in 1987 in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun.

Since then, he worked his way onto Hollywood’s A-List, starring in Newsies (1992), American Psycho (2000), The Machinist (2004), Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy (2005-2012), Terminator: Salvation (2009), The Fighter (2010), American Hustle (2013), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), and Vice (2018).

He’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in 2010 for Best Actor for The Fighter.

Happy birthday, Christian Bale!