Michael C. Hall

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Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor.

He is best known for his appearances as Dexter Morgan, a serial murderer and blood spatter analyst in Showtime's Dexter and as David Fisher in HBO's drama series Six Feet Under.

Hall received a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actor Guild Award for his role in Dexter in 2010.

Early life

Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Janice (née Styons) Hall, a psychologist at Lees-McRae College, and his father, William Carlyle Hall, a systems engineer for IBM, are a mental health consultant. Hall had one older sister who died in infancy before his birth. When Hall was 11 years old, his father died of prostate cancer in 1982 at the age of 39. "My mother and I had a very one-on-one, immediate family bond," he explained. In a 2004 interview, Hall talked about his father's death: "Certainly, for a young boy, there's no good age," says the author, but I believe I was on the brink of a period in my life where I was beginning to say to my father." It's been frozen to have him. If you're going to revisit it for the remainder of your life, it's kinda slow—but hopefully positive—crawling out of the frozen moment."

Hall graduated from Ravenscroft School in Raleigh in 1989 and Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, in 1993. Although he had intended to become a lawyer, he later confessed that he had no intention to attend law school. In 1996, Hall graduated from New York University's graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

When he was in second grade at Ravenscroft School, Hall discovered acting early in life: he appeared in What Love Is. He began singing in fifth grade in a boys' choir and then in high school in musicals, appearing in revues such as The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and Fiddler on the Roof. He continued acting as a student at Earlham College, appearing in Cabaret and other productions.

Personal life

Hall married actress Amy Spanger in 2002. Hall appeared Billy Flynn opposite Spanger's Roxie Hart in the Broadway musical Chicago in the summer. In 2006, the two were divorced.

Hall began dating Jennifer Carpenter, his Dexter co-star. They eloped in California on New Year's Eve 2008 and publicly appeared together for the first time as a married couple at the 66th Golden Globe Awards in January 2009. After being separated "for some time," Hall and Carpenter released a statement in December announcing that they had filed for divorce. In December 2011, the two couples became close friends, despite the fact that they were arranged for irreconcilable differences and resolved in December 2011.

Morgan Macgregor, an associate editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Hall started dating her in September 2012.

Hall's manager and spokesman announced on January 13, 2010 that the agent and spokesman for the company was undergoing medical intervention for a form of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Hall expressed surprise in an interview, when his father died of cancer at the age of 39. Hall received his Golden Globe and Screen Actor Guild Award in 2010 while wearing a knitted cap over his bald head, losing his hair due to chemotherapy. Hall wore a wig for season 5 of Dexter to cover up his hair loss due to chemotherapy. Hall's cancer had been totally in remission, according to Carpenter, who was about to return to work for a new season of Dexter.

The Somalia Aid Society's "Feed The People" campaign features Hall. He has also worked with Kiehl's to advertise a limited-edition skin care line that supports the Waterkeeper Alliance, an environmental non-profit group that works to ensure clean and safe water around the world.

Hall served as the celebrity spokesperson for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Light the Night Walk" fundraising effort in 2011.

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Career

Hall's professional acting career began in theater. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Macbeth and Cymbeline at the New York Shakespeare Festival; in Timon of Athens and Henry V at The Public Theater; and the controversial play Corpus Christi at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He appeared in the original version of a Sondheim musical (titled Wise Guys at the time), as well as in later versions, Bounce and then Road Show. In the final version, the character's songs and appearance were changed to Hollis Bessamer's. Hall appeared in Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. He appeared Lancelot in Camelot, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing as part of the Texas Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1995.

In 1998, Hall appeared in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline in the role of Posthumus, which ran from August 4 to October 30. In 1999, director Sam Mendes cast Hall as the flamboyant Emcee in Cabaret's revival; this was Hall's first Broadway appearance. As Alan Ball began casting the television drama Six Feet Under, Mendes suggested Hall for the role of closeted David Fisher. "Everything opened up for me in Cabaret," Hall wrote in a 2004 interview, but "It slammed shut for David."

Hall's debut in the first season of Six Feet Under was recognized with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and an AFI Award nomination for Actor of the Year in 2002. In addition, he was nominated for Outstanding Achievement by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for the five years that the film was on display, winning the award in 2003 and 2004.

Hall appeared in the Chicago musical Chicago as Billy Flynn in 2003. In 2005, he returned to off-Broadway theater in the premiere of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade, playing the title role of a mentally troubled little girl's imaginary friend.

Hall appeared in and coproduced the Showtime television series Dexter, in which he played a forensic blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department, who moonlights as a serial killer/vigilante. Jennifer Carpenter portrayed his adoptive sister, Debra Morgan. The series debuted on October 1, 2006 and concluded in 2013 in 2013. Showtime revealed on social media that season eight would be Dexter's last season after months of rumors. In the animated web series Dexter Morgan: The Early Cuts, Hall also played Dexter Morgan.

Hall was nominated for five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series from 2008 to 2012. In the same years, the drama series category had also been nominated for Emmy citations in the Drama Series category. He received the Individual Achievement in Drama prize from the 2007 Television Critics Association. In 2007, 2008, Hall was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Drama, both in 2008 and 2010. He also received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 2010.

Hall said in 2014 that he would be interested in returning for a spinoff film, but that "I can't even wrap my mind around it." And it's all theoretical until there is some sort of script resembling someone's prediction of where it might go. However, it's impossible for me to imagine what it would be like. Yeah, as far as playing Dexter for a short period of time, it's a little difficult to decide. However, there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV, especially on television. I don't want to do that right away. I wouldn't say never to that, but I certainly wouldn't say never to that." He has said he will revisit his role as the serial murderer if anything was written that it was "worth investigating."

Hall's film credits include the thriller Paycheck (2003), the science fiction thriller Gamer (2009), the 2011 film The Trouble with Bliss (2011), the comedy Peep World (2012), and Kill Your Darlings (2013). In July, Hall appeared in a film version of Joe R. Lansdale's cult book Cold, directed by Jim Mickle. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and it was sold out. In the documentary film The Gettysburg Address, Hall will portray Abraham Lincoln's advisor, Leonard Swett.

He returned to Broadway in the play The Realistic Joneses in 2014, playing John Jones in the role. On October 16, 2014, he first appeared in Hedwig and The Angry Inch on Broadway, and continued in his role until January 18, 2015. Hedwig, played by March 17–21, 2015, was hired to replace John Cameron Mitchell, who sustained a knee injury.

Hall appeared as Thomas Newton in the NYTW stage production of Lazarus, created by David Bowie and Enda Walsh at the end of 2015 and beginning in 2016. On Bowie's last album, Blackstar (2016), Hall performed "Lazarus," which appeared on Bowie's last album, "Lazarus." Stephen Colbert appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December 2015. He appeared in London from October 25, 2016 to January 22, 2017.

Showtime President David Nevins announced on January 16, 2014 that there had been talks for a Dexter spinoff book that would take the character in a new direction and not continue the previous one. If Hall wants to return, the Nevins said they would only do the performance if they wanted to return. Showtime announced on October 14, 2020, that Hall would reprise his role as Dexter Morgan in a 10-episode limited series, with Clyde Phillips as showrunner. On November 7, 2021, the series premiered on November 7, 2021, and on January 9, 2022, it came to an end. The series finale was the most watched finale in the network's history, but it also set streaming records.

In season two, episode eight of Netflix's historical drama The Crown, actor John F. Kennedy portrayed him as Jackie Kennedy. In Safe, an eight-part Netflix original crime drama that premiered on May 10, 2018, Tom Delaney, British widower and doctor, appeared as Tom Delaney, also starred as Tom Delaney, British widower and doctor. Hall appeared as Thom Pain in the off-Broadway version of Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno's one-man show written in 2018. Oliver Butler, the show's director, performed at the Signature Theatre in New York City, and it ran from October 23, 2018 to December 9, 2018, after being extended twice.

Hall appeared in the half-hour, one-time only Broadway musical Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical, on February 3, 2019. In addition, Hall appeared in the Netflix thriller In the Shadow of the Moon in 2019. In Daron Nefcy's Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Hall portrays Toffee, and he also played Batman in Justice League: Gods and Monsters.

Hall narrated Stephen King's horror book Pet Sematary in 2018. In a season of the theatre podcast Playing on Air called "Nudity Rider," Hall appeared alongside Martha Plimpton and Hamish Linklater. Hall has been singing for the band Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum since 2018, with Matt Katz-Bohen and Peter Yanowitz. In Tarrytown, New York, they shot their first music video for their song, "Ketamine" on September 3, 2019. The song's official music video premiering on Collider on October 25, 2019. On April 2, 2020, the band's eponymous debut EP was released.

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