Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish stage, television and film actor and producer who his popularly known for essaying the role of the Marvel Comics antihero character Magneto in the X-Men series. Fassbender has received several accolades and nominations since his screen debut in 2001 and came to prominence with his role as an IRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) activist, Bobby Sanders, in Steve McQueens Hunger (2008). The actor has also given commendable performances in movies such as Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and as Steve Jobs in the biopic of the same name, Steve Jobs (2015) directed by Danny Boyle.