Michael Fassbender
He's Magneto in the X-Men, he's the cheerful German guy, and he's Michael Fassbender.
Early life
Michael Fassbinder was born in Germany on 2 April 1977. His mother was Irish and his father was German. According to fassbinder legend, his mother was the great-grandnephew of Michael Collins, the irish leader during the Revolutionary War.
When Fassbinder was two years old, his parents moved to the rural parish of Fossa near the town of Killarney, County Klee, Ireland, where he ran a restaurant called West End House, where his father had been a cook. His parents later moved to Kerry because they wanted their children to grow up in the countryside rather than in the Context of the German industry where they had lived before.
Fassbinder has an older sister who is a neuropsychologist. Fassbinder spoke German fluently, though he later said before filming Shameless Bastard that he needed to recapitalize his spoken German because it was "a bit rusty."
Fassbinder attended Fossa State School and St. Brendan's College, and at the age of 17, when he was chosen by Donner Courtney as an actor, he decided to pursue an acting career. At the age of 19, he moved to London to study at the London Drama Centre, a constituent school of Central St Martins. In 1999, he dropped out of theatre centres to tour the play Three Sisters with the Oxford Stage Theatre Company. Before he got a job as an actor, he worked as a bartender and postman, including doing market research for Royal Mail and working for Dell Computer.
Acting career
Company of Brothers, Lake Eden, Prometheus
Fassbinder's feature film debut was as a Spartan warrior in the fantasy war epic Spartan 300 Warriors (2007); His early roles included various stage plays, as well as television roles such as the miniseries Company of Brothers (2001) and the fantasy play The Witch (2004–05). In 2008, he starred in the thriller Lake Eden with Kelly Reilly, playing Jenny's boyfriend Steve. He rose to fame for playing IRA militant Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he won the British Independent Film Award.
His subsequent roles included the independent film Fishbowl (2009), the Royal Marine Lieutenant in Shameless Bastards (2009), Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation Jane Eyre, Carl Jung in Dangerous Ways (2011), the humanoid robot David 8 in Prometheus (2012) and its sequel Alien: Covenant (2017), and the musical comedy Frank (2014). Played by an eccentric musician inspired by Frank Ceder barton.
X-Men: First Battle, Steve Jobs, Assassin's Creed
In 2011, Fassbinder played the supervillain Magneto in X-Men: First Battle, co-starred with Ian McLean in X-Men: The Future Against the Wind (2014), and later again in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019).
"Uncle Wolf", "Law Shark", "Zhan Yimei"
Also in 2011, Fassbinder's role as a sex addict in Shame won him the Volpi Cup For Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe and a British Academy Film Award. In 2013, his role as slave owner Edwin Epps in the slavery epic Twelve Years of Slavery was equally well received, earning him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2013, Fassbinder starred in another Ridley Scott film, Black Gold Kill. In 2015, he played Steve Jobs in the danny Boyle biopic Steve Jobs (2015) and Macbeth in Justin Kutzel's film based on William Shakespeare's plays. For the former, he was nominated for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe award and an Actors Guild Award. In 2015, he produced the Western film Western Slow Key, which he starred in. In 2017, he starred in the sci-fi action film Assassin's Creed, in which Fassbinder played Callum Lynch, a descendant of the most mysterious Assassin Order, and, the ancestor Aquila, who also served as the film's producer.
Personal life
While Fassbinder was reluctant to disclose his private life, he said in a 2012 interview with GQ that he was "as much as possible" with actress Nicole Behari on the film Shame.
In December 2014, he began dating Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, and the two met while filming Lights Between the Oceans. On October 14, 2017, the two had a private wedding in Ibiza, Spain, living in Lisbon, Portugal.
Michael Fassbinder