The talented and gifted actor, Michael Fassbender was born on the 2nd of April in the year 1977 in Heidelberg, Baden- Württemberg, West Germany. He was raised by his Irish mother, Adele, and a German father “Josef”, he learnt cooking and managed West End House restaurant with Adele.
When he was just 2 years old, the family relocated from Poland to Killarney. Adele and Josef also raised Michael and Catherine – his elder sister as Catholics. Fassbender is good in Irish and German language and he went to school at Fossa National School and St. Brendan’s College.
He began his acting in plays at the age of 17 and two years later; he joined the Drama Centre London but he was expelled in 1999 to act in “Three Sisters” for the Oxford Stage Company.
Michael Fassbender Net Worth
Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor who has a huge earning and as estimated he has a net worth of forty million dollars. While a performer since the HBO’s Band of Brothers in 2001, Fassbender truly came into prominence with director Zack Snyder’s hugely successful ‘300’ in 2006.
Doubling his efforts, Michael played the role of a well-known hunger striker Bobby Sands in the 2008 released movie named “Hunger” and he had to shed significant amount of weight in order to resemble the character.
He then got cast in an impressive and famous movie like “Inglourious Basterds” (2009), “12 Years a Slave” (2013), “Steve Jobs” (2015) and several other films in the phenomenally popular “X-Men” series. In June 2020, Fassbender appeared ninth in “The Irish Time” magazine list of 50 greatest of all time Irish film actors.
Despite the fact that he has made a lot of his money in movies, Michael also has a love for auto racing which he started in 2017. He is a participant in the Ferrari Challenge, the German Porsche Racing Experience, as well as the Proton Competition.
Career
Michael entered in television in 2001 and he starred as Burton “Pat” Christenson in the series “Band of Brothers” produced by Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. That year, he also guest-starred on three episodes of BBC One’s “Hearts and Bones,”.
In 2004, he appeared in the television films “Gunpowder, Treason & Plot,” “Julian Fellowes Investigates: He has featured in TV series “A Most Mysterious Murder,” “A Bear Named Winnie,” and “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking” and was a cast member of the supernatural TV series “Hex”.
Other TV appearances include “Murphy’s Law” (2005) and “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” (2006) before joining cast of the film. Two years later in 2007, Michael appeared again in a film called “300” in which he portrayed the Spartan warrior named Stelios and the film recorded a worthy collection of $456.
They grossed $1 million at the box office. He later made a horror pictures “Eden Lake” (2008) and “Blood Creek” (2009) then acted in “Fish Tank” (2009) that gave him awards from the Chicago International Film Festival and London Critics Circle Film Awards.