Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a German-born Irish actorHe is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Magneto in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011). His other credits include Jane Eyre (2011), the Sky One television series Hex, the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Zack Snyder's 300 (2007), and the 2008 BAFTA-winning film Hunger.
1 Background
2 Career
2.1 Early work
2.2 Mainstream success
3 Awards
4 Filmography
5 Video games
6 References
7 External links
Fassbender was born in Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany). His mother, Adele, is Irish and a native of Larne, County Antrim, and his father, Josef Fassbender, is German.According to Fassbender's "family lore", his mother is the great-great-niece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence When he was two years old, his parents moved to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, where they ran West End House, a restaurant, where his father worked as a chef Fassbender was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy He attended St. Brendan's, Killarney (The Sem) and Central School of Speech and Drama
Career
Early workFassbender first played the part of Burton "Pat" Christenson in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's award-winning Band of Brothers. He played the character of Azazeal in both series of Hex on Sky One and he also starred as the main character in the music video for the song "Blind Pilots" by the British band The Cooper Temple Clause.
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