Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender is a German and Irish actor, racing driver and producer, born in Heidelberg in 1977 and raised in Killarney, County Kerry, in Ireland. He studied at the Drama Centre London and first appeared on screen in the miniseries Band of Brothers, before making his feature film debut in 300. His performance as the hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger was regarded as his breakthrough, and he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Shame. He earned Academy Award nominations for 12 Years a Slave and Steve Jobs, and reached mainstream audiences as Erik Lehnsherr, also called Magneto, in the X-Men films and as the android David in the Alien series. After a four-year acting hiatus in which he competed in auto racing, he returned to acting in The Killer and Black Bag. He is married to the Swedish actress Alicia Vikander.