question: NCS: Manhunt is a British television crime drama series, starring David Suchet, the series notably starred which Irish actor, whose feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic "300" (2007)?
answer: Michael Fassbender
context: Title: Moses Jones
  Passage: Moses Jones is a British television crime drama series first broadcast on BBC Two in February 2009.  The series was written by Joe Penhall, directed by Michael Offer and produced by Cameron Roach.  The series follows DI Moses Jones (Shaun Parkes), a Scotland Yard detective who is seconded onto an enquiry investigating a mutilated body found floating in the Thames.  The series also notably starred Matt Smith, who a month before the series aired, was cast in the role of the Doctor in "Doctor Who".  The complete series was released on DVD on March 9, 2009.
  Title: NCS: Manhunt
  Passage: NCS: Manhunt is a British television crime drama series, starring David Suchet, and based on the National Crime Squad.  Created by Malcolm McKay, the series premiered with a two-part pilot episode on BBC One on March 26, 2001.  A full series of six episodes debuted on March 4, 2002, and concluded on March 19, 2002.  Despite the series popularity, and strong viewing figures, a second series was never commissioned.  Notably, neither the pilot nor the complete series have ever been issued on DVD, although the series was repeated in its entirety on Forces TV in 2016.  The series notably starred Michael Fassbender in one of his earliest television roles, after appearing in "Band of Brothers" the previous year.  Kenneth Cranham and Phyllis Logan also co-starred in the pilot episode.
  Title: Silent Witness
  Passage: Silent Witness is a British television crime drama series, produced by the BBC, which focuses on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.  First broadcast in 1996, the series was created by Nigel McCrery, a former murder squad detective based in Nottingham.  He later went on to create the hit series "New Tricks", with writer Roy Mitchell.  Since 1996, twenty series of the programme have been broadcast.  Amanda Burton originally starred as primary character Dr. Sam Ryan, before leaving the show during the eighth series.  Since, the series has featured more of an ensemble cast, currently consisting of Emilia Fox, David Caves, Liz Carr and Richard Lintern.  The programme is broadcast in more than 235 territories, including ABC in Australia, Showcase and the Knowledge Network in Canada, KRO in the Netherlands, TV One and Prime in New Zealand, and BBC America in the United States.  Twenty years after its inception, "Silent Witness" continues to achieve good audience ratings; in 2011 Series 14 attracted an average audience of nine million viewers.
  Title: Cracker (U.S. TV series)
  Passage: Cracker is an American crime drama series produced by Granada Entertainment based upon the British television crime drama of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern that series ran on ABC from September 18, 1997 until January 24, 1998.
  Title: Out of the Blue (1995 TV series)
  Passage: Out of the Blue is a British television crime drama series, set and filmed in Sheffield, and broadcast on BBC One between 23 May 1995, and 9 September 1996.  A total of twelve episodes were broadcast across two series.  John Hannah and David Morrissey starred as the main protagonists in each respective series.  "Out of the Blue" follows a team of detectives at Brazen Gate CID through grisly murder cases, clashes with an already-divided community and through the dramas of their personal lives.  The series ultimately received acclaim from critics, but did not pull in the expected viewing figures, and was subsequently axed after the second series.  The complete series is due for release on DVD by Simply Media 10th July 2017.
  Title: Thirteen at Dinner (film)
  Passage: Thirteen at Dinner is a 1985 British-American made-for-television mystery film featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.  Adapted by Rod Browning from the Agatha Christie novel "Lord Edgware Dies", it was directed by Lou Antonio and starred Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, Jonathan Cecil, Diane Keen and Bill Nighy.  David Suchet, later to play Poirot in the long-running television series entitled "Agatha Christie's Poirot", played the role of Inspector Japp.  Suchet considers his performance as Japp to be "possibly the worst performance of [his] career."
  Title: Michael Fassbender
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Josh Hartnett
  Passage: Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and movie producer.  He first came to attention in 1997 for his role as Michael Fitzgerald in the television crime drama series "Cracker".  He made his feature film debut in 1998 in the slasher film "", followed by teen roles in films such as the sci-fi horror film "The Faculty" (1998) and the drama "The Virgin Suicides" (1999).  Hartnett had starring roles in the war film "Pearl Harbor", the drama "O", the war film "Black Hawk Down", the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights", the crime thriller Lucky Number Slevin (2006), and other films.
  Title: Hidden (TV series)
  Passage: Hidden is a British television drama starring Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Michael Winder, Andrew Scarborough and David Suchet, which debuted on BBC One on 6 October 2011.  The four-part series was directed by Niall MacCormick, produced by Christopher Hall and written by Ronan Bennett.  The series focuses on small-time solicitor Harry Venn (Glenister), who is reluctantly drawn back into his dark past after being approached by Gina Hawkes (Reuten).  Hawkes, a lawyer searching for a missing alibi witness for her client, quickly draws Venn into a deep and dangerous conspiracy involving the death of his brother twenty years previously, and which reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.
  Title: Maisie Raine
  Passage: Maisie Raine is a British television crime drama series, first broadcast on BBC One, that ran from July 28, 1998 to July 9, 1999.  Pauline Quirke starred as the eponymous title character, an unorthodox detective whose hands on yet down-to-earth approach is not always appreciated by her superiors.  Created by Stephen Bill, a total of twelve episodes were broadcast across two series.  The first series featured a running story arc involving Maisie's wayward brother Kelvin (Paul Reynolds), and had a much lighter feel than the second, which featured grittier storylines including drug dealing, armed robbery, arson and murder.
citations: Michael Fassbender NCS: Manhunt