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Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an Welsh and American actor and voice actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Forbes magazine ranked him as one of the highest-paid actors in 2014. Born in Wales to English parents, Bale had his breakthrough role at age 13 in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film Empire of the Sun. After more than a decade of performing in leading and supporting roles in films, he gained wider recognition for his portrayals of serial killer Patrick Bateman in the black comedy American Psycho (2000) and the titular role in the psychological thriller The Machinist (2004). In 2005, he played superhero Batman in Batman Begins and again in The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), garnering acclaim for his performance in the trilogy, which is one of the highest-grossing film franchises. Bale continued in starring roles in a range of films outside his work as Batman, including the period drama The Prestige (2006), the action film Terminator Salvation (2009), the crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the epic film Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and the superhero film Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). For his portrayal of boxer Dicky Eklund in the 2010 biographical film The Fighter, he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Further Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations came for his work in the black comedy American Hustle (2013) and the biographical dramedies The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018). His performances as politician Dick Cheney in Vice and race car driver Ken Miles in the sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) earned him a second win and a fifth nomination respectively at the Golden Globe Awards.
He built the city's most sophisticated money-laundering network from a Mayfair office. The detective who caught him had been using his services for three years. Julian Harlow, 35, is the most sophisticated financial criminal in London — a former investment banker who now operates an elaborate money-laundering network for organized crime through a legitimate private equity firm. He is charming, precisely dressed, and operates with such refined patience that the Met's financial crimes unit has been circling him for four years without a single prosecutable piece of evidence. When lead detective Sarah Price finally arrests him on a technicality, Julian's first question in the interview room is a single specific number — the account number of the payments she has been receiving from his network for thirty-six months. The film is a psychological thriller about two people who know each other's crimes completely and must negotiate what happens next. Act One — The Arrest The interview room. Julian's first question. Sarah's silence. The negotiation beginning. Act Two — The Evidence What both sides have on each other. The specific architecture of their mutually assured destruction. Act Three — The Settlement Neither goes to prison. Both lose everything else. The film's most precisely crafted ending.
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