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Michael Fassbender

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.


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Born:
Apr 2, 1977 In Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Movie/TV Credits:
95
First Appeared:
In the movie Paris Paramount
Latest Project:
Movie Hope 2025
Known For
Filmography
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