59 Facts About Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender was born on 2 April 1977 and is a German-Irish actor.

Michael Fassbender is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

Michael Fassbender first came to prominence playing Bobby Sands in the drama Hunger.

Michael Fassbender received two Academy Award nominations: for Best Supporting Actor playing Edwin Epps in the historical drama 12 Years a Slave and Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role in biographical drama Steve Jobs.

Michael Fassbender starred in The Counselor, Frank, and Macbeth.

Michael Fassbender was born on 2 April 1977 in Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, West Germany.

Michael Fassbender has an elder sister named Catherine, a neuropsychologist at the MIND Institute in Sacramento, California, United States.

At age two, Michael Fassbender moved to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, where his parents were to operate the West End House, a restaurant where his father worked as a chef.

Michael Fassbender's 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.

Michael Fassbender, who was raised Catholic, served as an altar boy at the church his family attended.

Michael Fassbender attended Fossa National School near Killarney and St Brendan's College in Killarney itself.

Michael Fassbender decided that he wanted to be an actor at age 17 when he was cast in a play.

In 1999, Michael Fassbender dropped out of the Drama Centre and toured with the Oxford Stage Company to perform the play Three Sisters.

Michael Fassbender played the character of Azazeal in both series of Hex on Sky One and starred as the main character in the music video for the song "Blind Pilots" by the British band The Cooper Temple Clause.

Michael Fassbender played Jonathan Harker in a ten-part radio serialisation of Dracula produced by BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast in the Book at Bedtime series between 24 November and 5 December 2003.

Michael Fassbender was seen in early 2004 in a Guinness television commercial, The Quarrel, playing a man who swims across the ocean from Ireland to apologise personally to his brother in New York; this commercial won a gold medal at the 2005 FAB Awards.

Michael Fassbender appeared in Angel, about the rise and fall of an eccentric young British writer in the early 20th century.

Michael Fassbender plays her love interest, an average painter named Esme.

Michael Fassbender then made a brief appearance in Dean Cavanagh and Irvine Welsh's Wedding Belles as Barney, speaking with a Scottish accent.

In 2006, Michael Fassbender played Stelios, a young Spartan warrior, in 300, a fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder.

In preparation for his role as Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's historical drama film Hunger, Michael Fassbender adopted a diet that restricted him to 600 calories a day, weighing 125 pounds as Sands.

Michael Fassbender acted opposite Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, and Christoph Waltz.

Michael Fassbender plays the boyfriend acting opposite Kierston Wareing as the single mother with two children.

In 2010, Michael Fassbender appeared as Burke in Jonah Hex, a Western film.

Michael Fassbender portrayed Edward Rochester in the period film Jane Eyre, featuring Mia Wasikowska in the title role, with Cary Fukunaga directing.

Michael Fassbender next portrayed Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class, the prequel to X-Men.

The film was released on 3 June 2011 to general acclaim and financial success and promoted Michael Fassbender to being more of a popular movie star.

In 2011, Michael Fassbender starred in A Dangerous Method by director David Cronenberg, playing Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung.

Shame reunited him with director Steve McQueen and premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, where Michael Fassbender won a Volpi Cup Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Brandon.

Michael Fassbender played the title role in Ridley Scott's The Counselor, a 2013 film based on the Cormac McCarthy script.

Michael Fassbender reprised the role of Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to X-Men: First Class.

Michael Fassbender co-starred in Slow West, a western starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn, in 2015.

Michael Fassbender played late Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs in the Danny Boyle-directed film Steve Jobs, which began filming in January 2015, in San Francisco, US, and premiered in September of that year.

Michael Fassbender became attached after Christian Bale dropped out of the project.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised Michael Fassbender writing, "while [he] doesn't closely physically resemble the man, he fully delivers the essentials of how we have come to perceive the man".

Michael Fassbender's performance saw him nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.

Michael Fassbender took on the Shakespearean role of Macbeth in a film directed by Justin Kurzel, where he teamed up with Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth and David Thewlis as King Duncan.

In 2016, Michael Fassbender played Magneto in the film X-Men: Apocalypse.

Michael Fassbender next starred in The Light Between Oceans, based on the novel written by M L Stedman, and directed by Derek Cianfrance; the film began filming in New Zealand in late September 2014, and was released on 2 September 2016.

Also in 2016, Michael Fassbender starred in the thriller Trespass Against Us, with fellow Irishman Brendan Gleeson.

In May 2017, Michael Fassbender reprised his role as the android David, and played another character, in the sequel to Prometheus, Alien: Covenant.

Michael Fassbender reprised his role as Magneto in the 2019 film Dark Phoenix, which garnered unfavorable reviews and had a commercially unsuccessful theatrical run.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised Fassbender's casting writing, "Michael Fassbender is perfect in the main role of a yoga-loving assassin".

Michael Fassbender helped produce The Kitchen, a dystopian drama for Netflix, written by Daniel Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh.

Michael Fassbender began racing in the Ferrari Challenge's Coppa Shell class in May 2017, finishing 15th in his debut at Mugello Circuit.

Michael Fassbender raced in the Challenge's North American division, finishing sixth at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Michael Fassbender moved to Porsche in 2019, competing in Porsche Carrera Cup Germany with the German Porsche Racing Experience and being the subject of a YouTube series by Porsche, called Road to Le Mans.

Later in the year Michael Fassbender raced a guest car in the Porsche Supercup at Circuit de Catalunya and was involved in a startline crash putting him out of the race within seconds.

In 2021, Michael Fassbender continued to race with Proton Competition in the European Le Mans Series.

Michael Fassbender has said that he intended to get an Irish passport "for years and just never got around to it".

Michael Fassbender speaks German, though he stated that he needed to brush up on his spoken German before filming Inglourious Basterds because "it was a bit rusty".

Michael Fassbender has expressed interest in performing in a German-language film or play.

Michael Fassbender grew up as a Catholic and was an altar boy, but now has described himself as a lapsed Catholic, though he says that he still goes to church to light candles.

Michael Fassbender is a supporter of Liverpool FC Fassbender is known for preferring to keep his personal life private.

Michael Fassbender moved into a property in the Hackney area of London in 1996, and resided there until he moved to Portugal in 2017.

In June 2012, Michael Fassbender told GQ magazine that he was dating American actress Nicole Beharie, with whom he had worked on the 2011 film Shame.

Michael Fassbender has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for two performances:.

Michael Fassbender has received a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Venice International Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor.

Michael Fassbender has received nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two European Film Awards.