Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish actor. 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. Born in Heidelberg and raised in Killarney, Fassbender made his feature film debut as a Spartan warrior in the fantasy war epic 300 (2006). 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.
Series | Face 2 Face | Unknown | 2025 |
Series | The 7th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards | Unknown | 2025 |
Series | Moving Pictures Live! | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Hope | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Kung Fury 2 | Colt Magnum | 2025 |
Movie | Paris Paramount | 2025 | |
Movie | Black Bag | Unknown | 2025 |
Series | The 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | The Wild Bunch | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Night Boat to Tangier | Maurice Hearne | 2025 |
Movie | Kneecap | 2024-01-18 | |
Movie | The Killer | The Killer | 2023-10-25 |
Movie | Michael Fassbender: Road to Le Mans – The Film | Self | 2023-11-17 |
Movie | Next Goal Wins | Thomas Rongen | 2023-11-16 |
Movie | Dark Phoenix | Erik Lensherr / Magneto | 2019-06-05 |
Series | Michael Fassbender: Road to Le Mans | Self | 2019-10-11 |
Movie | Mister Police | Harry Hole | 2019-05-28 |
Movie | QT8: The First Eight | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-21 |
Series | Late Night Berlin | Self | 2018-03-12 |
Movie | Split | 2017-01-19 | |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing | David | 2017-04-26 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant | David / Walter | 2017-05-09 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Crew Messages | David | 2017-04-17 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos | Walter | 2017-07-19 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Epilogue: Advent | Walter | 2017-08-15 |
Movie | The Snowman | Harry Hole | 2017-10-12 |
Movie | Song to Song | Cook | 2017-03-17 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Meet Walter | Walter | 2017-03-10 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper | Walter | 2017-02-22 |
Movie | Assassin's Creed | Callum Lynch / Aguilar de Nerha | 2016-12-21 |
Movie | Trespass Against Us | Chad Cutler | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | The Light Between Oceans | Tom Sherbourne | 2016-09-02 |
Movie | X-Men: Apocalypse | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2016-05-18 |
Movie | Take Flight | Self - Performer | 2015-12-10 |
Movie | Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender | 2015-09-16 | |
Movie | SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT | Self | 2015-11-02 |
Movie | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs | 2015-10-09 |
Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 2015-09-22 |
Movie | Slow West | Silas | 2015-05-15 |
Movie | Frank | Frank | 2014-05-09 |
Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
Movie | 300: Rise of an Empire | Stelios (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-03-05 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
Movie | Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' | Self | 2014-02-11 |
Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2014-05-15 |
Movie | 1 | Narrator | 2013-09-30 |
Movie | The Counselor | The Counselor | 2013-10-25 |
Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Edwin Epps | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | X-Men: First Class 35mm Special | Self | 2012-06-05 |
Movie | The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus | Self | 2012-10-11 |
Movie | Prometheus | David | 2012-05-30 |
Movie | Gina Carano in Training | 2012-05-01 | |
Movie | Pitch Black Heist | Michael | 2012-04-18 |
Movie | Haywire | Paul | 2011-11-01 |
Movie | X-Men: First Class | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2011-06-01 |
Movie | Jane Eyre | Edward Rochester | 2011-03-11 |
Series | Big Morning Buzz Live | Unknown | 2011-05-09 |
Movie | Shame | Brandon | 2011-10-02 |
Movie | A Dangerous Method | Carl Jung | 2011-09-30 |
Movie | Jonah Hex | Burke | 2010-06-18 |
Movie | Centurion | Centurion Quintus Dias | 2010-02-15 |
Movie | Fish Tank | Connor O'Reily | 2009-09-11 |
Movie | Blood Creek | Richard Wirth | 2009-10-09 |
Movie | Man on a Motorcycle | 2009-10-26 | |
Movie | Inglourious Basterds | Lieutenant Archie Hicox | 2009-08-02 |
Movie | Goldfish | Christian | 2008-04-01 |
Series | The Devil's Whore | Thomas Rainsborough | 2008-11-19 |
Movie | Eden Lake | Steve | 2008-09-12 |
Movie | Hunger | Bobby Sands | 2008-05-15 |
Movie | Angel | Esmé | 2007-02-17 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | 300 | Stelios | 2007-03-07 |
Movie | Wedding Belles | Barney | 2007-03-29 |
Series | Xposé | Unknown | 2007-04-16 |
Movie | Our Hidden Lives | B. Charles | 2005-10-03 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | Charles Allen | 2004-12-26 |
Series | Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder | Charles Bravo | 2004-10-16 |
Series | Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | Guy Fawkes | 2004-03-14 |
Movie | A Bear Named Winnie | Harry Colebourn | 2004-12-12 |
Series | Hex | Azazeal | 2004-10-17 |
Movie | Carla | Rob | 2003-09-15 |
Movie | Things I Notice, Things You See | Tom | 2003-05-01 |
Series | William and Mary | Lukasz | 2003-03-23 |
Series | NCS: Manhunt | Jack Silver | 2002-03-04 |
Series | Band of Brothers | Burton 'Pat' Christenson | 2001-09-09 |
Series | Murphy's Law | Unknown | 2001-09-24 |
Series | Hearts and Bones | Hermann | 2000-04-30 |
Series | Trial & Retribution | Douglas Nesbitt | 1997-10-19 |
Series | Leute heute | Self | 1997-07-23 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Series | Kulturzeit | self | 1995-10-02 |
Series | Agatha Christie's Poirot | George Abernethie | 1989-01-08 |
Series | Cinema 3 | Unknown | 1984-05-28 |
Series | The Oscars | Michael Fassbender | 1953-03-19 |