Michael Fassbender, films with the participation of which are probably familiar to many viewers, is a popular Hollywood actor. Today we offer a closer acquaintance with the celebrity, finding out some details of his career and personal life.
Biography
The future Hollywood star was born in 1977, on April 2. It happened in Germany. However, two years later, Michael's family moved to Ireland, where his mother was from. Here the boy’s childhood passed. The head of the family bought a restaurant and worked there as a chef. Michael's mother was also engaged in the family business, acting as a head waiter. Parents spent all their time at work. When Michael grew up, he also began to help them whenever possible. The boy was never spoiled, and from an early age he knew how hard money is made.
Fassbender Michael attended a regular school. But in parallel, he took guitar, piano and accordion lessons. He also spoke excellent German. A little matured, the young man also began to attend the school of the London Drama Theater. After all, he felt a vocation for the profession of an actor since childhood.
First steps in a career
The debut of young Fassbender in the movie took place in 1989. His first works were small roles in television series. But Fassbender Michael could switch to full-length films only a few years later. However, despite the fact that he continued to act in films, he could not achieve popularity. So, since 2001, he played roles in such films as Holby City, The Witch, Murphy's Law, Karl, and in a number of others. Particularly noteworthy is the work of the actor in the popular television series Brothers in Arms, which was filmed by Tom Hanks himself. Fassbender Michael played the role of Sergeant Burton Christenson in this project.
In 2007, the actor played in a film called "Angel." This picture was shown as part of the British Film Festival.
First success
The real fame came to the actor at the age of 29 thanks to the filming of the film "300 Spartans." Michael Fassbender played in the film is not the main, but a very prominent role. In order to look great on the screen, the actor spent two hours and a half daily every four hours in the gym. After the release of the film, which was a great success, the spectators drew attention to Fassbender. However, critics bypassed his person.
But everything changed in 2008, when the film “Hunger” was released with the participation of the actor. In this project, Fassbender got the role of a soldier in the Irish army in custody. At the same time, in order to create a believable image on the screen, Michael again had to work on his appearance. However, this time he literally exhausted himself for several weeks, sitting on a strict diet. As a result, his weight dropped from 80 kilograms to 58! Both critics and viewers called such an act nothing more than self-sacrifice in the name of art. The film “Hunger” itself was very successful, and the actor was awarded a number of awards for his role.
Career continuation
After successful roles in the films 300 Spartans and Hunger, Fassbender Michael began to receive one interesting offer after another. So, he starred in such films as “Inglourious Basterds” by Quentin Tarantino, “X-Men” and “Jane Eyre”.
At the same time, the actor himself admits that he is interested in diverse roles. So, he takes part with pleasure in fantastic thrillers, and in arthouse projects, and in blockbusters. Moreover, the transformations succeed to him simply superbly, as evidenced by his ever-growing popularity among viewers and producers.
Of the most notable recent works by Fassbender, one can distinguish such paintings as “Shame”, “Advisor”, “Dangerous Method” and “Prometheus”. In 2013, the film “12 Years of Slavery” was released. In this picture, the actor played Edwin Epps - a slave owner who does not know mercy and pity. Michael Fassbender, whose films have been very successful in recent years, was nominated for the first time in his career for the prestigious Academy Award for his role in 12 Years of Slavery. In addition, the actor was awarded several other awards.
Michael Fassbender: personal life
The path of the actor to success in Hollywood was very difficult. So, in the early 2000s, he even had to moonlight as a loader, because there were very few proposals for filming in that period. He even thought about quitting acting and starting up his small but stable business. From such a step he was restrained by the proposal to take part in the filming of the series Neh.
Michael Fassbender was never officially married. He spent a year with Zoe Kravitz, daughter of the famous American singer Lenny Kravitz. Acquaintance took place during the filming of the film "X-Men." Despite the fact that Zoe was 11 years younger than her lover, they looked very harmonious. After an affair with young Kravitz, Michael had a relationship with actress Nicole Behari, model Madalina Genea. Fassbender’s last passion was Alicia Vikander, a filming colleague in the film “Light in the Ocean”. However, the couple broke up in early autumn 2015.