Michael Fassbender, an Irish-German actor, was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, in 1977.
Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a racing driver and German-Irish actor. He has won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In the fantasy war epic 300, Fassbender made his feature film debut as a Spartan warrior (2007). Previously, he appeared in a number of stage productions as well as starring roles on television, including the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–05). He rose to prominence after playing IRA volunteer Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he received a British Independent Film Award.
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