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Michael Fassbender is a German and Irish actor, racing driver and producer. His accolades include a win for one Volpi Cup and nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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entertainment · German and Irish actor (born 1977) · film actor · stage actor · film producer · television actor · actor · racing driver · also Michael Fassbender, Fassy, Fassbender
Born 2 April 1977 · Q57147
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What is your own moral compass? You’ve got to stay true to that, regardless of what your loved one’s compass is, because we’re all individuals. You can co-exist with somebody and love somebody, but I think if we’re honest with ourselves, we know what our make up is, and what sits well with us and what doesn’t.
You know, it’s not, ‘Here’s the baddie, here’s the goodie.’ That’s the great thing about the story. It’s not like you think, ‘What were they thinking? They were out of their minds.’
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“What is your own moral compass? You’ve got to stay true to that, regardless of what your loved one’s compass is, because we’re all individuals. You can co-exist with somebody and love somebody, but I think if we’re honest with ourselves, we know what our make up is, and what sits well with us and what doesn’t.”
“You know, it’s not, ‘Here’s the baddie, here’s the goodie.’ That’s the great thing about the story. It’s not like you think, ‘What were they thinking? They were out of their minds.’”
“And in a way, thank God, her back played up. Maybe in her subconscious she developed a back pain on the eve of the screening.”
“I kind of developed this character and really pushed it – I”
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UPI: Netflix shares first look at Michael Fassbender as Joe Kennedy Sr.
The Guardian: Black Bag review – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage
Starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller film Black Bag, which received critical acclaim
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The Guardian: The Agency review – even Michael Fassbender can’t save this utterly tedious spy story
Fassbender began starring in the action thriller series The Agency for Paramount+, and played a supporting role in the Irish comedy-drama Kneecap
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The Guardian: Next Goal Wins review – Michael Fassbender funnies it up in Taika Waititi’s football yarn
Fassbender made a return to acting with the thrillers The Killer (2023) and Black Bag (2025), as well as starring in the spy series The Agency: Central Intelligence (2024–present)
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Fassbender continued to race with Proton Competition in the European Le Mans Series
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"Even before I started acting, I had a big dream to go racing
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Was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors
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Competing in Porsche Carrera Cup Germany with the German Porsche Racing Experience and being the subject of a YouTube series by Porsche, called Road to Le Mans
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Ran the full Ferrari Challenge North America schedule, winning the season opener at Daytona International Speedway and finishing fifth in the standings
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And purchased a home in the Alfama district of Lisbon
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Fassbender starred in the thriller Trespass Against Us, with fellow Irishman Brendan Gleeson
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Fassbender again played Magneto in the film X-Men: Apocalypse
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Was cast as Harry Hole (becoming the first actor ever to portray the character) in The Snowman, an adaptation of Jo Nesbø's novel, directed by Tomas Alfredson and co-starring Rebecca Ferguson and Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Starred in 12 Years a Slave, his third collaboration with Steve McQueen
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Appeared as an MI6 agent in Haywire, an action-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh, and in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Prometheus
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Shame (2011).
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Awarded Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor (2011).
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“Pretty awful, was it? I haven”
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Fassbender starred in A Dangerous Method by director David Cronenberg, playing Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung
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Fassbender said: "Pretty awful, was it
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Fassbender appeared as Burke in Jonah Hex, a Western film
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Fassbender's ex-girlfriend Sunawin Andrews accused him of two incidents of domestic abuse that had occurred the previous year
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Fassbender appeared in Quentin Tarantino's revisionist World War II comedy-drama Inglourious Basterds as British officer Archie Hicox
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“It depends so much on luck, who you meet, how you are received.”
Fassbender played Stelios, a young Spartan warrior, in 300, a fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder
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Fassbender played Jonathan Harker in a ten-part radio serialisation of Dracula produced by BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast in the Book at Bedtime series
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Fassbender dropped out of the Drama Centre and toured with the Oxford Stage Company to perform the play Three Sisters
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Fassbender sold the property in the Hackney area of London he had lived in since 1996.
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Born 1977-04-02.
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It focuses on the friendship between Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants
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