Michael Fassbender

Description: (German-Irish Actor and Racing Driver)

Michael Fassbender is an accomplished award winning German-born Irish actor best known for films like ‘Hunger’, ‘12 Years a Slave’ and ‘Steve Jobs’. A drop out from the Drama Centre London, Fassbender’s passion for acting led him to tour with the Oxford Stage Company to perform in the play ‘Three Sisters’ and also do several odd jobs including labour work and bartending before landing up with his first on-screen role in the 2001 war-drama television miniseries ‘Band of Brothers’. Moving on he featured in other television series and movies before making his big-screen debut earning role of a Spartan warrior in the fantasy-war-epic film ‘300’. He rose to prominence playing IRA activist Bobby Sands in Irish-British historical-drama film ‘Hunger’ that won him a British Independent Film Award. His remarkable performances as slave owner Edwin Epps in the period-drama film ‘12 Years a Slave’ and in titular role in the biographical-drama film ‘Steve Jobs’ earned him Academy Award nominations. Over the years this remarkable actor garnered both critical acclaim and popularity portraying many other notable roles in films like ‘Shame’, ‘Inglourious Basterds’, ‘Prometheus’, ‘A Dangerous Method’, ‘Fish Tank’, ‘X-Men: First Class’ and ‘Macbeth’.

Overview

Birthday April 2, 1977 (Aries)
Born In Germany
Height 183 cm
City Heidelberg, Germany
Spouse/Ex- Alicia Vikander (m. 2017)
Parents Josef Fassbender
Adele Fassbender
Relatives Catherine Fassbender

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