Why is Michael Fassbender racing? Is Michael Fassbender still racing 2023?

Michael Fassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. As of 2023, he races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition.

Michael Fassbender will return for a second attempt at the Le Mans 24 Hours with Proton Competition in a Porsche 911. Fassbender had his first screen role as Pat Christenson in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s award-winning television miniseries Band of Brothers (2001).

In 2006, Michael Fassbender played a young Spartan warrior called Stelios in 300, a fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder. The film was his feature film debut. Fassbender portrayed Quintus Dias in Neil Marshall’s bloody Roman war-thriller-drama film Centurion.

For his portrayal as a sex addict in Steve McQueen’s drama Shame (2011), Michael Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards.

Michael Fassbender starred in The Counselor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth (2015), and Steve Jobs (2015). For portraying the title role in the later, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.