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.
Movie | Kung Fury 2 | Colt Magnum | 2025 |
Movie | Hope | 2025 | |
Movie | Entering Hades | Jack Unterweger | 2023 |
Movie | Dark Phoenix | Erik Lensherr / Magneto | 2019-06-05 |
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 | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing | David | 2017-04-26 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos | Walter | 2017-07-19 |
Movie | The Snowman | Harry Hole | 2017-10-12 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant - Epilogue: Advent | Walter | 2017-08-15 |
Movie | Master Class: Ridley Scott | Self | 2017-08-15 |
Movie | Alien: Covenant | David / Walter | 2017-05-09 |
Movie | X-Men: Apocalypse | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2016-05-18 |
Movie | Trespass Against Us | Chad Cutler | 2016-10-14 |
Movie | The Light Between Oceans | Tom Sherbourne | 2016-09-02 |
Movie | Assassin's Creed | Callum Lynch / Aguilar de Nerha | 2016-12-21 |
Movie | X-Men: Apocalypse Unearthed | Himself | 2016-11-04 |
Movie | Slow West | Silas | 2015-05-15 |
Movie | X-Men: Unguarded | Self | 2015-07-14 |
Movie | Mutant vs. Machine | Himself | 2015-07-14 |
Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 2015-09-22 |
Movie | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs | 2015-10-09 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
Movie | Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' | Self | 2014-02-11 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
Movie | Frank | Frank | 2014-05-09 |
Movie | 300: Rise of an Empire | Stelios (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-03-05 |
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 | Pitch Black Heist | Michael | 2012-04-18 |
Movie | The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus | Self | 2012-10-11 |
Movie | Prometheus | David | 2012-05-30 |
Movie | Jane Eyre | Edward Rochester | 2011-03-11 |
Movie | X-Men: First Class | Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto | 2011-06-01 |
Movie | A Dangerous Method | Carl Jung | 2011-09-30 |
Movie | Haywire | Paul | 2011-11-01 |
Movie | Shame | Brandon | 2011-10-02 |
Movie | Centurion | Centurion Quintus Dias | 2010-02-15 |
Movie | Jonah Hex | Burke | 2010-06-18 |
Movie | Inglourious Basterds | Lieutenant Archie Hicox | 2009-08-02 |
Movie | Man on a Motorcycle | 2009-10-26 | |
Movie | Fish Tank | Connor O'Reily | 2009-09-11 |
Movie | Blood Creek | Richard Wirth | 2009-10-09 |
Movie | Hunger | Bobby Sands | 2008-05-15 |
Movie | Goldfish | Christian | 2008-04-01 |
Movie | Eden Lake | Steve | 2008-09-12 |
Series | The Devil's Whore | Thomas Rainsborough | 2008-11-19 |
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 |
Movie | Poirot: After the Funeral | 2006-03-26 | |
Movie | Our Hidden Lives | B. Charles | 2005-10-03 |
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 |
Series | William and Mary | Lukasz | 2003-03-23 |
Movie | Carla | Rob | 2003-09-15 |
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 | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Series | Agatha Christie's Poirot | George Abernethie | 1989-01-08 |
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