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Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender

Birthday: 1977-04-02 | Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany

Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a German-Irish actor and racing driver. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fassbender made his feature film debut as a Spartan warrior in the fantasy war epic 300 (2007). His earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–05). He first came to prominence for his role as IRA volunteer Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include the independent film Fish Tank (2009), as a Royal Marines lieutenant in Inglourious Basterds (2009), as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre, as Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method (2011), as the sentient android, David 8, in Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017), and in the musical comedy-drama Frank (2014) as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom. Fassbender debuted as the Marvel Comics supervillain Magneto in X-Men: First Class (2011), and went on to share the role with Ian McKellen in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) before reprising it again in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019). Also in 2011, his performance as a sex addict in Shame earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. His role as slave owner Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) was similarly praised, earning him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In the same year, Fassbender appeared in another Ridley Scott film, The Counselor. He portrayed the title role in the Danny Boyle-directed biopic Steve Jobs (2015), and played Macbeth in Justin Kurzel's adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. For the former, he received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG nominations. He also produced and starred in the Western Slow West (2015). In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Fassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. He currently races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2019
Dark Phoenix

as    Erik Lensherr / Magneto

2017
Trespass Against Us

as    Chad Cutler

2017
Song to Song

as    Cook

2017
Alien: Covenant

as    David / Walter

2017
The Snowman

as    Harry Hole

2016
Assassin's Creed

as    Callum Lynch / Aguilar de Nerha

2016
X-Men: Apocalypse

as    Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2016
The Light Between Oceans

as    Tom Sherbourne

2015
Macbeth

as    Macbeth

2015
Slow West

as    Silas

2015
Steve Jobs

as    Steve Jobs

2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past

as    Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2014
Frank

as    Frank

2013
12 Years a Slave

as    Edwin Epps

2013
1

as    Narrator

2013
The Counselor

as    The Counselor

2012
Prometheus

as    David

2011
Shame

as    Brandon

2011
A Dangerous Method

as    Carl Jung

2011
Jane Eyre

as    Edward Rochester

2011
X-Men: First Class

as    Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

2011
Haywire

as    Paul

2010
Jonah Hex

as    Burke

2010
Centurion

as    Centurion Quintus Dias

2009
Fish Tank

as    Connor O'Reily

2009
Inglourious Basterds

as    Lieutenant Archie Hicox

2009
Blood Creek

as    Richard Wirth

2008
Hunger

as    Bobby Sands