Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender welcome their first child together, a son born in 2021. In December 2014, he began dating Swedish actress Alicia Vikander, with whom he had worked on the 2016 film The Light Between Oceans.
Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender married in a private ceremony in Ibiza on 14 October 2017. They later moved to Portugal and reside in Lisbon.
During the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Michael Fassbender played Michael Collins, his great-great-granduncle in Allegiance, a play by Mary Kenny based on the meeting between Collins and Winston Churchill.
Michael Fassbender first came to prominence for his role as Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen’s 2008 film Hunger.
Michael Fassbender has had roles in Fish Tank (2009), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Jane Eyre (2011), A Dangerous Method (2011), Prometheus (2012), and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017).
Michael Fassbender starred in The Counselor (2013), Macbeth (2015), and Steve Jobs (2015). For portraying the title role in the later, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.