Michael Fassbender
Actor | Producer
Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a German-born Irish actor. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when he was two years old. His parents ran a restaurant (his father is a chef). Fassbender is based in London, England, and is known for his roles in the films Inglourious Basterds (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Steve Jobs (2015). First language is English and second is German.
Filmography - Acting
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The Wild Bunch (2022)
As: (rumored)
A gang of American bandits try to elude bounty hunters during the waning days of the wild West. A remake of the 1969 film directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Stars: Peter Dinklage | Jamie Foxx | Michael Fassbender
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
As: Erik Lensherr / Magneto
During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling our of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Simon Kinberg
Stars: James McAvoy | Jessica Chastain | Jennifer Lawrence | Michael Fassbender | Sophie Turner
The Snowman (2017)
As: Detective Harry Hole
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Val Kilmer | J.K. Simmons | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Michael Fassbender | Rebecca Ferguson
Master Class: Ridley Scott (2017)
As: Himself
An in-depth look at the making of the film and broken into four parts that can be watched separately (i.e Story, Characters, Setting and Creatures). This piece features a host of cast and crew interviews interspersed with tons of BTS footage, viewers can learn a great deal on the director's creative style and approach to the plot, the characters, the visual effects and the shooting location.
Runtime: 55 min.
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Ridley Scott | David Giler
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos (2017)
As: Walter
Computer program tests the feelings and reactions of the Covenant crew.
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Toby Dye
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Danny McBride | Billy Crudup | Katherine Waterston | Demián Bichir
Advent (2017)
As: Walter
The official prologue to Alien: Covenant introduces the mission crew as they prepare to take their last dinner before hibernation. On board the Covenant, a colonizing ship headed for a remote planet to settle in, the crew and their android.
Runtime: 7 min.
Directed by: Matthew Thorne
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Noomi Rapace
Alien: Covenant (2017)
As: David / Walter
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Danny McBride | Billy Crudup | Katherine Waterston | Demián Bichir
The Crossing (2017)
As: David
The Crossing, an official prologue short to Alien: Covenant, reveals what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after the events of Prometheus. Set aboard an hijacked Engineer vessel, Dr. Shaw repairs David as they make their way to the homeworld of the Engineers, whom Shaw believes are humanity’s creators.
Runtime: 3 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Noomi Rapace
Song to Song (2017)
As: Cook
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Natalie Portman | Rooney Mara | Michael Fassbender | Ryan Gosling
Meet Walter (2017)
As: Walter
Introducing Walter, the latest synthetic by Weyland-Yutani. Created to serve. Intelligence powered by AMD, Ryzen and Radeon.
Runtime: 3 min.
Directed by: Luke Scott
Stars: Michael Fassbender
Last Supper (2017)
As: Walter
A prologue short to Alien: Covenant, it takes place aboard the Covenant, a Weyland colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement. Before the crew is set to enter hypersleep, the 14 crew members (all couples) and their android, Walter, enjoy a final meal together.
Runtime: 5 min.
Directed by: Luke Scott
Stars: James Franco | Michael Fassbender | Danny McBride | Billy Crudup | Katherine Waterston
Assassin's Creed (2016)
As: Callum Lynch / Aguilar de Nerha
Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills, he is now poised to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Marion Cotillard | Charlotte Rampling | Michael Fassbender | Jeremy Irons
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
As: Tom Sherbourne
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Derek Cianfrance
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Bryan Brown | Michael Fassbender | Jack Thompson | Alicia Vikander
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
As: Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Stars: Oscar Isaac | James McAvoy | Jennifer Lawrence | Nicholas Hoult | Michael Fassbender
Take Flight - The New York Times (2015)
As: Himself
2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.
Runtime: 10 min.
Directed by: Daniel Askill
Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Rooney Mara | Charlize Theron | Lily Tomlin | Benicio del Toro
Steve Jobs (2015)
As: Steve Jobs
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Kate Winslet | Jeff Daniels | Michael Fassbender | Seth Rogen | Katherine Waterston
Four Photographic Sonatas (2015)
Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.
Runtime: 4 min.
Directed by: Bruce Weber
Stars: Michael Fassbender
Macbeth (2015)
As: Macbeth
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Marion Cotillard | Paddy Considine | Michael Fassbender | Sean Harris | Jack Reynor
Mutant vs. Machine (2015)
As: Himself
A nine-part making-of documentary that has cast and crew look at story/character areas and the original comics, what Singer brings to the film, cast and performances, costumes, sets and production design, photography and shooting 3D, music, editing, and sound design, various effects, aspects of the "Rogue Cut", the film's reception and what to expect from the next movie.
Runtime: 53 min.
Stars: Shawn Ashmore | James McAvoy | Daniel Cudmore | Michael Fassbender | Chris Claremont
Slow West (2015)
As: Silas
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: John Maclean
Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee | Ben Mendelsohn | Michael Fassbender | Rory McCann | Caren Pistorius
Trespass Against Us (2015)
As: Chad Cutler
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Adam Smith
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Michael Fassbender | Sean Harris | Rory Kinnear | Lyndsey Marshal
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
As: Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Young)
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Stars: James McAvoy | Jennifer Lawrence | Michael Fassbender | Halle Berry | Hugh Jackman
Frank (2014)
As: Frank
A young wannabe musician who discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Scoot McNairy | Domhnall Gleeson | Michael Fassbender | Hayley Derryberry
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' (2014)
As: Himself
A 13-segment documentary examining production aspects of "The Counselor" (2013): Tragic Consequences A Different Southwest The Counselor Pool Party Reiner Laura Malkina Polo Club Lensing the Dark World Westray Downward Spiral The Cheetahs The Bolito
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Charles de Lauzirika
Stars: Penélope Cruz | Ridley Scott | Charles de Lauzirika | Cormac McCarthy | Michael Schaefer
The Counselor (2013)
As: The Counselor
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Brad Pitt | Penélope Cruz | Cameron Diaz | Michael Fassbender | Javier Bardem
12 Years a Slave (2013)
As: Edwin Epps
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Stars: Paul Dano | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Benedict Cumberbatch | Michael Fassbender | Lupita Nyong'o
1 - Life on the limit (2013)
As: Narrator
Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Paul Crowder
Stars: Michael Schumacher | Niki Lauda | Jackie Stewart | Lewis Hamilton | Jenson Button
The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus (2012)
As: David
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Released on the 4-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray set.
Runtime: 220 min.
Directed by: Charles de Lauzirika
Stars: Guy Pearce | Charlize Theron | Noomi Rapace | Ridley Scott | Damon Lindelof
Prometheus: Prologue - Prometheus Transmission (2012)
As: David
Prometheus Transmission is a "greeting" transmission prepared for the Prometheus mission, designed to be transmitted ahead of the ship's arrival at LV-223 in order to prepare any potential alien life forms inhabiting the moon for first contact with the ship's human crew. It was directed by Johnny Hardstaff. A shortened, teaser version of the video was released on September 6, ...
Runtime: 7 min.
Directed by: Johnny Hardstaff
Stars: Idris Elba | Michael Fassbender | Logan Marshall-Green | Noomi Rapace
Prometheus (2012)
As: David
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Idris Elba | Guy Pearce | Michael Fassbender | Logan Marshall-Green | Noomi Rapace
Prometheus: Prologue - Happy Birthday, David (2012)
As: David
Happy Birthday, David is an advertisement for the David 8 model synthetic. It was directed by Johnny Hardstaff. A shortened, teaser version of the video was made available exclusively to attendees of the Prometheus panel at the 2012 WonderCon event, held in Anaheim, California on March 17, as part of the viral marketing campaign for the film. The full video was given a general release online exactly one ...
Runtime: 3 min.
Directed by: Johnny Hardstaff
Stars: Michael Fassbender
Haywire (2011)
As: Paul
Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Michael Fassbender | Gina Carano | Bill Paxton | Channing Tatum
Shame (2011)
As: Brandon Sullivan
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Stars: Carey Mulligan | Alex Manette | James Badge Dale | Michael Fassbender | Nicole Beharie
A Dangerous Method (2011)
As: Carl Jung
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Viggo Mortensen | Keira Knightley | Vincent Cassel | Michael Fassbender | Sarah Gadon
X-Men: First Class (2011)
As: Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Stars: Kevin Bacon | James McAvoy | Jennifer Lawrence | Rose Byrne | Michael Fassbender
Jane Eyre (2011)
As: Edward Rochester
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Cary Fukunaga
Stars: Mia Wasikowska | Michael Fassbender | Judi Dench | Jamie Bell | Su Elliott
Pitch Black Heist (2011)
As: Michael
Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men to embark on a pitch black heist.
Runtime: 13 min.
Directed by: John Maclean
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Michael Fassbender | Alex MacQueen
Jonah Hex (2010)
As: Burke
Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Jimmy Hayward
Stars: Megan Fox | John Malkovich | Will Arnett | Josh Brolin | Michael Fassbender
Centurion (2010)
As: Centurion Quintus Dias
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Stars: Liam Cunningham | David Morrissey | Michael Fassbender | Dominic West | Olga Kurylenko
Man on a Motorcycle (2009)
Michael Fassbender stars in this 'day in the life' of a London motorcycle courier at breaking point in his profession and his life.
Runtime: 11 min.
Directed by: John Maclean
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Sophie Wu | Jessica Brown Findlay
Blood Creek (2009)
As: Richard Wirth
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Emma Booth | Henry Cavill | Dominic Purcell | Michael Fassbender | Rainer Winkelvoß
Fish Tank (2009)
As: Connor O'Reily
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Harry Treadaway | Michael Fassbender | Katie Jarvis | Kierston Wareing | Rebecca Griffiths
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
As: Lieutenant Archie Hicox
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Runtime: 153 min.
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt | Eli Roth | Mélanie Laurent | Michael Fassbender | Christoph Waltz
Eden Lake (2008)
As: Steve
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: James Watkins
Stars: Kelly Reilly | Michael Fassbender | Jack O'Connell | Finn Atkins | Tara Ellis
Hunger (2008)
As: Bobby Sands
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Stars: Stuart Graham | Liam Cunningham | Michael Fassbender | Laine Megaw | Helena Bereen
Goldfish (2008)
As: Christian
Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.
Runtime: 8 min.
Directed by: Ed Sayers
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Caroline Carver
Wedding Belles (2007)
As: Barney
A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Philip John
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Brendan Coyle | Shauna Macdonald | Kathleen McDermott | Michelle Gomez
Angel (2007)
As: Esmé
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: François Ozon
Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Michael Fassbender | Sam Neill | Romola Garai | Lucy Russell
300 (2006)
As: Stelios
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Stars: David Wenham | Lena Headey | Vincent Regan | Gerard Butler | Dominic West
Our Hidden Lives (2005)
As: B. Charles
Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the diaries of four very distinct people. In his book, Garfield selected some of the most expressive diarists, and focused on the post-war years giving a vivid portrait of how Britain coped in the post-war years and how little, or how much, attitudes have changed ...
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Michael Samuels
Stars: Richard Briers | Lesley Sharp | Mathew Horne | Sarah Parish | Ian McDiarmid
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
As: Charles Allen
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones
Stars: Ian Hart | Rupert Everett | Neil Dudgeon | Nicholas Palliser | Anne Carroll
A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
As: Harry Colebourn
Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Kent Harrison
Stars: Gil Bellows | Aaron Ashmore | Stephen Fry | David Suchet | Jonathon Young
Carla (2003)
As: Rob
The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
Runtime: 93 min.
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Helen McCrory | Lesley Sharp | Shaun Dingwall | Iain Glen
Entering Hades ()
As: Jack Unterweger
About Jack Unterweger a celebrated Austrian journalist and best-selling author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of 11 people across multiple continents.
Runtime: 120 min.
Stars: Michael Fassbender
Next Goal Wins ()
As: Thomas Rongen
Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
Directed by: Taika Waititi
Stars: Michael Fassbender | Elisabeth Moss
Malko ()
As: Malko
Following super spy for hire Malko Linge,an Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA operative who spent formative years in a special Nazi work camp for captured spies.
Stars: Michael Fassbender