Michael Fassbender

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
April 2, 1977

Place of Birth:
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany [now Germany]

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Michael Fassbender

Biography

Michael Fassbender (born April 2, 1977) is a German-Irish actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Born in Germany to a mother from Northern Ireland and a German father, Fassbender moved to Ireland at age two. He made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). Early roles include in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–2005). Fassbender first came to prominence playing Bobby Sandsin Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include the 2009 films Fish Tank and Inglourious Basterds and the 2011 films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method. He gained mainstream success for playing Erik Lehnsherr/MMagneto in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus (2012) and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017).

For his portrayal of a sex addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame (2011), Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. His performance as Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in The Counsellor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth, and Steve Jobs (both 2015). Fassbender received another Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of the title role in the latter. After a hiatus, he starred in the action thriller film The Killer (2023).

Fassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. As of 2023, he races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition. He married Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in 2017.

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Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Black Bag George Woodhouse
2024 Kneecap Arló
2023 Michael Fassbender: Road to Le Mans – The Film Self
2023 Next Goal Wins Thomas Rongen
2023 The Killer The Killer
2019 QT8: The First Eight Self (archive footage)
2019 Dark Phoenix Erik Lensherr / Magneto
2017 Alien: Covenant David / Walter
2017 The Snowman Harry Hole
2017 Song to Song Cook
2017 Prologue: The Crossing David
2017 Meet Walter Walter
2017 Advent David (voice)
2017 Phobos Walter
2017 Prologue: Last Supper Walter
2016 Assassin's Creed Callum Lynch / Aguilar de Nerha
2016 Trespass Against Us Chad Cutler
2016 The Light Between Oceans Tom Sherbourne
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
2015 Slow West Silas
2015 Macbeth Macbeth
2015 Steve Jobs Steve Jobs
2015 Take Flight Self - Performer
2015 SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT Self
2015 Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Erik Lehnsherr
2014 Frank Frank
2014 Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' Self
2013 12 Years a Slave Edwin Epps
2013 The Counselor The Counselor
2013 1 Narrator
2012 Prometheus David
2012 Pitch Black Heist Michael
2012 The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus Self
2012 Gina Carano in Training
2012 X-Men: First Class 35mm Special Self
2012 Project Prometheus: Mission David
2012 Happy Birthday David David
2012 Transmission David
2011 Jane Eyre Edward Rochester
2011 A Dangerous Method Carl Jung
2011 X-Men: First Class Erik Lehnsherr
2011 Haywire Paul
2011 Shame Brandon
2011 Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2010 Jonah Hex Burke
2010 Centurion Centurion Quintus Dias
2009 Blood Creek Richard Wirth
2009 Fish Tank Connor O'Reily
2009 Inglourious Basterds LT. Archie Hicox
2009 Man on a Motorcycle Man on a Motorcycle
2008 Hunger Bobby Sands
2008 Eden Lake Steve
2008 Goldfish Christian
2007 300 Stelios
2007 Angel Esmé
2007 Wedding Belles Barney
2005 Our Hidden Lives B. Charles
2004 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Charles Allen
2004 A Bear Named Winnie Harry Colebourn
2003 Things I Notice, Things You See Tom
2003 Carla Rob
Paris Paramount
Hope
Night Boat to Tangier Maurice Hearne
Entering Hades Jack Unterweger
Kung Fury 2 Colt Magnum
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