Christian Bale weight transformations are legendary. No other actor has gained and lost as much weight, as many times, for as many roles. Here is every dramatic change documented.

Bale survived on a can of tuna and an apple daily, dropping 63 pounds to a skeletal 120. He wanted to go even lower, but producers stopped him fearing for his life on set.

Six months after wrapping The Machinist at 120 pounds, Bale arrived on the Batman Begins set at 220. The 100-pound gain remains one of the most extreme turnarounds in film history.

Bale dropped to 145 pounds as a crack-addicted boxer in The Fighter, winning the Oscar. Then gained 40 pounds for American Hustle's con artist — the cycle never stopped.

Gaining 40 pounds, shaving his head, and bleaching his eyebrows, Bale vanished into Dick Cheney. But heart palpitations during filming signaled his body was reaching its limit.