<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Alicia Vikander (m . 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a German - born Irish actor . His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic 300 (2007) 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 (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004--05). He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award . Subsequent roles include in the independent film Fish Tank (2009), as a Royal Marines lieutenant in Inglourious Basterds (2009), as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre, as Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method (2011), as the sentient android David 8 in Prometheus (2012) and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017), and in the musical comedy - drama Frank (2014) as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom . </P> <P> In 2011, Fassbender debuted as the Marvel Comics antihero Magneto in X-Men: First Class, and went on to share the role with Ian McKellen in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and reprised it again in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). Also in 2011, Fassbender's performance as a sex addict in Shame earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards . In 2013, his role as slave owner Edwin Epps in the slavery epic 12 Years a Slave was similarly praised, earning him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor . In 2013, Fassbender appeared in another Ridley Scott film, The Counselor . In 2015, he portrayed the title role in the Danny Boyle - directed biopic Steve Jobs (2015), and played Macbeth in Justin Kurzel's adaptation of William Shakespeare's play . For the former, he has received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG nominations . In 2015, he produced the western Slow West, in which he also starred . </P> <P> Fassbender was born on 2 April 1977 in Heidelberg, Baden - Württemberg . His mother, Adele, is Irish (from Larne, County Antrim), while his father, Josef Fassbender, is German . According to Fassbender family lore, his mother is the great - grand - niece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence . When Fassbender was two years old, his parents moved to the Irish town of Killarney, County Kerry, where they ran the West End House, a restaurant where his father worked as a chef . His parents moved to Kerry as they wanted their children to grow up in the countryside rather than the industrial backdrop of their previous residence in Germany . Fassbender was raised Catholic, and served as an altar boy at the church his family attended . He has an older sister, Catherine, who is a neuropsychologist . </P>

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