Michael Fassbender is an actor in films.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup , a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington , D.C. , in 1841 and sold into slavery . Michael Fassbender . In 2015 , he produced the western Slow West , in which he also starred . Shame is a 2011 British-American drama film directed and co-written by Steve McQueen , starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as grown siblings . Slow West is a 2015 British/New Zealand action western film written and directed by John Maclean in his directorial debut . The Counselor is a 2013 British-American dark thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy .