What is Christian Bale's real- life accent? a combination of...??

Question

Scottish, Irish? I can't place it.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/21/film.garyoldman.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

this is a clip of him being interviewed from CNN, from within a report about Gary Oldman

Answer 1

He's English.  :)

Answer 2

He's actually Welsh (Wales), which is another 'state' of Great Britain.  However, he is very good with accents and is known to try using a different accent in every movie he's made.