Biography
Michael Fassbender (born April 2, 1977) is a German-Irish actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Born in Germany to a mother from Northern Ireland and a German father, Fassbender moved to Ireland at age two. He made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). Early roles include in the HBO miniseries ...
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Complete Filmography

Black Bag
2025
as George Woodhouse
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whet...

Black Bag
2025
Associate Producer
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whet...

Karavidhe
2024
Executive Producer
After a day's work doesn't end as planned, Dee finds a creative way of feeding his inexperienced colleague, and entertains them in the process. An imm...

Kneecap
2024
as Arló
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no oth...

Michael Fassbender: Road to Le Mans – The Film
2023
as Self
Road to Le Mans - The Film tells the story of Michael Fassbender’s dream to race against the best teams and drivers in the world at the 24 Hours of Le...

Next Goal Wins
2023
as Thomas Rongen
Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.

The Killer
2023
as The Killer
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

The Kitchen
2023
Executive Producer
Izi's close to escaping The Kitchen, one of London's last remaining housing estates. But when young Benji enters his life, he faces some hard decision...

Scrapper
2023
Executive Producer
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend A...

Calm with Horses
2020
Executive Producer
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be...

Love Pool
2019
Executive Producer
After leaving a dinner party with his loved up friends, a single man has a chance encounter with a mystery woman that changes his view of love forever...

QT8: The First Eight
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...

This Is the Winter
2019
Executive Producer
2023 – A separatist movement has ignited civil war in the North of England. The UK government has built a wall dividing the country to protect the peo...

Dark Phoenix
2019
as Erik Lensherr / Magneto
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in ou...

The Snowman
2017
as Harry Hole
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

Alien: Covenant - Epilogue: Advent
2017
as David (voice)
Advent is a sequel to Alien: Covenant in which David sends a transmission from the Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic e...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos
2017
as Walter
A darkly twisted psychological drama, ‘Phobos’ is a short film set before the events of ‘Alien: Covenant’. The film follows the crew of the ill-fated ...

Alien: Covenant
2017
as David / Walter
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but ...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing
2017
as David
The Crossing, an official prologue short to Alien: Covenant, reveals what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after th...

Alien: Covenant - Crew Messages
2017
as David
Before entering hypersleep aboard the USCSS Covenant, several members of the crew record final messages for their loved ones at home. Daniels tells he...

Song to Song
2017
as Cook
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook ...

Alien: Covenant - Meet Walter
2017
as Walter
Walter is the world’s most advanced synthetic companion, designed to help you achieve a better human experience. Each model is individually calibrated...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper
2017
as Walter
The official prologue to Alien: Covenant introduces the crew of the mission as they gather for a final meal before entering cryosleep. Set aboard the...

Assassin's Creed
2016
as Callum Lynch / Aguilar de Nerha
Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient ...

Assassin's Creed
2016
Producer
Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient ...

Trespass Against Us
2016
as Chad Cutler
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and ...

The Light Between Oceans
2016
as Tom Sherbourne
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

X-Men: Apocalypse
2016
as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Take Flight
2015
as Self - Performer
2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.
SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT
2015
as Self
Footage from the making of the film 'Slow West'

Steve Jobs
2015
as Steve Jobs
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital...

Macbeth
2015
as Macbeth
Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power...

Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender
2015
Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.
Zero
2015
Executive Producer
A boy and his father are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity.

Slow West
2015
as Silas
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

Slow West
2015
Executive Producer
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
as Erik Lehnsherr
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e...

Frank
2014
as Frank
A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Fra...
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
2014
as Self
A 13-segment documentary examining production aspects of "The Counselor."

The Counselor
2013
as The Counselor
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

12 Years a Slave
2013
as Edwin Epps
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well...

1
2013
as Narrator
Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives durin...

The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
2012
as Self
An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Rele...

The Peter Weyland Files: 'Prometheus' Transmission
2012
as David
The transmission consists primarily of examples of human culture and knowledge, including geometric renderings, language data, mathematical formulae, ...

X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
2012
as Self
TV special about the making of "X-Men: First Class".

Prometheus
2012
as David
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they ...

Prometheus: Project Prometheus - Mission
2012
as David
Project Prometheus: Mission is a 2012 short film. Created as part of the viral marketing campaign for Prometheus and to promote the interactive Projec...
Gina Carano in Training
2012

Pitch Black Heist
2012
as Michael
Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated a...

Pitch Black Heist
2012
Executive Producer
Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated a...

The Peter Weyland Files: Happy Birthday, David
2012
as David
An introduction to the 8th generation android, David, who explains what he thinks about and what makes him sad.

Haywire
2011
as Paul
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

Shame
2011
as Brandon
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When ...

A Dangerous Method
2011
as Carl Jung
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s we...

Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
2011
An eight-part behind-the-scenes featurette, charting the film from pre-production through post-production, including visual effects techniques and cat...

X-Men: First Class
2011
as Erik Lehnsherr
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. B...

Jane Eyre
2011
as Edward Rochester
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Jonah Hex
2010
as Burke
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...

Centurion
2010
as Centurion Quintus Dias
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Leg...
Man on a Motorcycle
2009
as Man on a Motorcycle
Michael Fassbender stars in this 'day in the life' of a London motorcycle courier at breaking point in his profession and his life.

Blood Creek
2009
as Richard Wirth
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.

Fish Tank
2009
as Connor O'Reily
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfr...

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as LT. Archie Hicox
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...

Eden Lake
2008
as Steve
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdin...

Hunger
2008
as Bobby Sands
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political...

Goldfish
2008
as Christian
Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece ...

Wedding Belles
2007
as Barney
A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.

300
2007
as Stelios
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against t...

Angel
2007
as Esmé
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tast...
Our Hidden Lives
2005
as B. Charles
Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the ...

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
2004
as Charles Allen
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr....

A Bear Named Winnie
2004
as Harry Colebourn
Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is nam...

Carla
2003
as Rob
The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
Things I Notice, Things You See
2003
as Tom
The Stage, a launderette. Tom and Maggie meet and flirt, all because of a red thong.

Paris Paramount
N/A
Talented young writer/director, Porter Nash, and brilliant young producer, Reggie Pettipiece, get off to a fantastic Hollywood start: meeting, quickly...

Hope
N/A
The largely Korean-language film will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor to...
Night Boat to Tangier
N/A
as Maurice Hearne
The movie follows Maurice and Charlie, a colourful pair of gangsters from Ireland. Drug-smugglers, partners with a long history of violence and intert...
Entering Hades
N/A
as Jack Unterweger
“Entering Hades” is about Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and best-selling author who led a double life investigating murders by day...

Kung Fury 2
N/A
as Colt Magnum
1985. Miami is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury and his Thundercops, the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat th...
Night Boat to Tangier
N/A
Executive Producer
The movie follows Maurice and Charlie, a colourful pair of gangsters from Ireland. Drug-smugglers, partners with a long history of violence and intert...