We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.

" Fassbender achieved critical acclaim for his performance in Shame and received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Filmography
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Fassbender was at the Top Gear studios in Surrey England on 8 February 2012 to film Star in a Reasonably Priced Car where celebs try to set a fastest lap time of the Top Gear test track in a low-spec family hatchback. According to Fassbender's "family lore" his mother is the great-great-niece of Michael Collins an Irish leader during the War of Independence.

His other credits include the fantasy action film 300 (2007); the drama film Fish Tank (2009); the romantic drama film Jane Eyre (2011); the historical film A Dangerous Method (2011); the biographical film Hunger (2008) and the drama film Shame (2011) both directed by Steve McQueen. For his role in Shame he won the Volpi Cup best actor award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival held in August 2011 and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA. Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a German-Irish actor.