Michael Fassbender only appeared in films directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Fish Tank is a 2009 British drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold . Hunger is a 2008 British-Irish historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender , Liam Cunningham , and Liam McMahon , about the 1981 Irish hunger strike . Michael Fassbender . He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in Hunger ( 2008 ) , for which he won a British Independent Film Award .