Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender (born April 2, 1977) is an Irish-German actor. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic 300 as a Spartan warrior; his earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex. He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in Hunger, for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include in the independent film Fish Tank, as a Royal Marines lieutenant in Inglourious Basterds, as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre, as Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, as the sentient android David 8 in Prometheus and its sequel, Alien: Covenant, and in the musical comedy-drama Frank as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.

He also portrayed Magneto in X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix.