MICHAEL FASSBENDER

Date of Birth: April 2, 1977

Actor Michael Fassbender was born in Heilberg, Germany, to an Irish mother and a German father. The family moved to Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland when Fassbender was two years old. He attended St. Brendan's College in Killarney, where his parents ran the West End House restaurant. He began acting at age 16 in a theater group called Bricriu, and then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Fassbender first appeared in the Oxford Stage Company's production of The Three Sisters and as a guest on the television show Hearts & Bones before landing the role of Sgt. Burton 'Pat' Christenson in Band of Brothers, the television miniseries on which Steven Spielberg was the executive producer. This helped Fassbender gain more attention and led to appearances in shows such as NCS Manhunt, Murphy's Law, Hex and Agatha Christie: Poirot, and in TV movies such as Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) and Our Hidden Lives (2005).

He landed his big break with the feature film 300 (2006), and went on to complete the films Angel (2007), Hunger (2008), Creek (2009), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Sweeney (2010) and Wuthering Heights (2010).

Fassbender has also worked in advertising, having starred in a Guinness commercial called 'The Quarrel' and regularly provides voice work for a variety of advertisements. He currently lives in London, England, and visits his home of Killarney three times per year.

Filmography:

Wuthering Heights (2010)
The Sweeney (2010)
Centurion (2009)
Fish Tank (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Creek (2009)
Eden Lake (2008)
Hunger (2008)
Angel (2007)
300 (2006)