Birth place: West Germany
Age: 37
Most well known films: "Prometheus" (2012), "Shame" (2011), "X-Men: First Class" (2011), "Inglorious Basterds" (2009), "300" (2006). This year, he will play Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic. Fassbender is also slated to appear in "X-Men: Apocalypse," "Assassin's Creed," and "Prometheus 2."
Irish ancestry: While Fassbender's father is German, his mother is from Northern Ireland. When the actor was two-years-ols, his family moved to Killarney, Ireland, where they ran West End House, a restaurant where his father worked as a chef.
According to Fassbender's family lore, his mother is the great-great-niece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence.
And Fassbender is a fan of another Irishman: "For me, Daniel Day-Lewis is in a league of his own. I think that he's amazing. And he's always been a benchmark of excellence."