What was the name of the character played by Michael Fassbender in a film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike directed by Steve McQueen?
Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish actor. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic "300" (2007) as a Spartan warrior; his earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama "Hex" (2004–05). 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. Subsequent roles include in the independent film "Fish Tank" (2009), as a Royal Marines lieutenant in "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of "Jane Eyre", as Carl Jung in "A Dangerous Method" (2011), as the sentient android David 8 in "Prometheus" (2012) and its sequel, "" (2017), and in the musical comedy-drama "Frank" (2014) as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
Escape from New York Escape from New York is a 1981 American dystopian science-fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. The film is set in the then near-future of 1997 in a crime-ridden United States that has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's sole maximum security prison. Ex-soldier and now federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is given only 24 hours to find the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence), who has been captured by prisoners after the crash of Air Force One.