He decided that he wanted to be an actor at age 17 when he was cast in a play. He attended Fossa National School near Killarney and St. He and his sister spent summer holidays in Germany. įassbender was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy at the church his family attended. His parents chose Killarney because they wanted their children to grow up in the countryside, in contrast to the industrial backdrop of their previous German residence. When Fassbender was two years old, his parents moved with him to Killarney in Ireland to operate the West End House, a restaurant where his father also worked as a chef. According to lore on his mother's side of family, his mother is the great-grandniece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence. He has an older sister named Catherine, who is a neuropsychologist at the MIND Institute in Sacramento, California. He has been married to Swedish actress Alicia Vikander since 2017.įassbender was born in Heidelberg, West Germany, on 2 April 1977, the son of an Irish mother Adele (from Larne) and German father Josef Fassbender. As of 2023, he races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition. For portraying the title role in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.įassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. He also starred in The Counselor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth (2015), and Steve Jobs (2015). His role as slave owner Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Fassbender gained mainstream success for his role as mutant Holocaust survivor Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and as androids David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus (2012) and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017).įor his portrayal as a sex addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame (2011) he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Award. Subsequent roles include in Fish Tank (2009), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Jane Eyre (2011), and A Dangerous Method (2011). 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. Early roles include in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–05). įassbender made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish-German actor and racing driver.
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