Michael Fassbender was born on April 2, 1977 in the German city of Heidelberg. The beginning of Michael Fassbender’s career cannot be called successful. Since 2001, Michael received small roles in the films “Band of Brothers”, “Hearts and Bones”, “Holby City”, “The Witch” and others.
Luck smiled on the actor only in 2006. Then Fassbender got a role in Zack Snyder’s 300. Stelios, played by Michael, was remembered by the audience for his tanned, pumped up torso.
His personal achievements include two Oscar nominations. As well as collaborations with Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Matthew Vaughn, Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh.
Among the mass audience, Michael Fassbender is popular thanks to his participation in the X-Men film franchise based on Marvel comics, where the actor plays the young antagonist Magneto.
Recently, production activity has been gaining momentum in the biography of Michael Fassbender. He owns the production company DMC FILM, founded in 2011. In 2016, his production company worked on the film Assassin’s Creed.
Hunger (2008)
The film tells the story of the struggle of prisoners from the Irish Republican Army for recognition of their political status.
At first they try to achieve this by refusing to wash themselves, wearing prison clothes and in every possible way creating dirt in their cells. However, this tactic does not bear fruit. Prisoners are forcibly cut and washed, while being beaten within an inch of their lives. Finally, one of them – Bobby Sands – decides to start starving to death.
The film received the Camera d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. And Michael Fassbender won the British Film Award.
Shame (2011)
Brandon suffers from an inability to control his sex life. An erotomaniac and a sexaholic, he is an eternal regular at nightclubs, strip bars and sex chats.
No girl in New York can resist his charms. But the arrival of his sister Sissy turns Brandon’s life upside down.
For his role as Brandon, Michael Fassbender received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In total, the film received 20 nominations for various awards and won seven of them.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
In 2014, Michael Fassbender was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the first time in his career. He also received numerous awards for his villainous role as a sadistic slave owner in this historical drama.
The film is based on the true story of an illegally captured African American in the mid-19th century. Solomon Northup outlined his sad experience in his memoirs entitled “12 Years a Slave.” They formed the basis of the film’s script.
A free black man named Solomon, by chance, falls into the hands of slave traders. For 12 years he goes through humiliation and trials of slavery, changes every master, but does not lose his dignity. It is thanks to this that he manages to find legal freedom after hard work, bullying and insults.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
In 2011, Michael Fassbender played in Matthew Vaughn’s superhero action film X-Men: First Class. The film became the beginning of a new trilogy about the clash between humans and mutants based on the comic books of the same name.
Michael Fassbender played the role of Erik Lehnsherr, later the superhero and then the supervillain Magneto, who has the power to control any metal object. The film talks about the development of superheroes.
Steve Jobs (2015)
The plot of the biographical film about Steve Jobs contains four important episodes that played a vital role in the life of the cult figure. For this film, Fassbender was nominated for a Golden Globe, an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. But as a result, he did not receive a single award.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The film takes place in occupied France. Before Suzanne Dreyfus’s eyes, her family dies at the hands of German Colonel Hans Land. The girl miraculously manages to escape and flee to Paris. There she gets a job in a cinema.
At the same time, somewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine gathers a group of Jewish soldiers calling themselves “The Bastards.” They are accosted by secret agent Bridget von Hammersmark, posing as an actress. Both storylines intersect when the saboteurs meet Suzanne at the cinema, who dreams of taking revenge on her offenders.
Jane Eyre (2011)
A young governess named Jane is hired into the house of the wealthy Mr. Rochester. The love that arose between the master and the governess of his adopted daughter erases all barriers – social, material, age. True love, which is not afraid of separation and does not care about distance. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Costume Design category.
Prometheus (2012)
In 2012, the actor appeared in the sci-fi boxbuster Prometheus. The film takes place in the Alien cinematic universe, but the plot is not directly related to these aliens. Michael Fassbender played the role of an android robot.
“Prometheus” is a research spaceship, the members of which go in search of the progenitors to her. Several years later, the ship’s crew arrives at their destination. On the planet they find artificial structures. But what they find there is unlikely to give them answers to their questions.
Alien: Covenant (2017)
While exploring a remote planet on the other side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Testament discovers what appears to be an uncharted paradise. However, in reality it is a dark and dangerous world.
Its only resident is the synthetic android David. He was a survivor of the Prometheus’s doomed expeditionary mission.
Macbeth (2015)
The film takes place in the 11th century in Scotland. Lord Macbeth, having won another victory in the battle, returns home with his army.
On the way, he meets three soothsayers who predict that he will soon become king. The lord was always proud that he was in good standing with the current King Duncan, but his thirst for power turned him into a real beast who could no longer be stopped.
He is indulged in every possible way by his wife, who turns out to be even more vain and vile than the Lord himself. It was she who whispered to him the most incredible and terrible ideas, which he brought to life.