Michael C. Hall
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Hall at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
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| Born | Michael Carlyle Hall February 1, 1971 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Tisch School of Arts and Earlham College |
| Occupation | Actor Executive producer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse(s) | Amy Spanger (m. 2002–07) Jennifer Carpenter (m. 2008–11) |
Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor, known for his role as Dexter Morgan in the Showtime TV Network Dexter, and as David Fisher on the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. In 2010, Hall won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Dexter.[1]
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Early life
Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. His mother, Janice (Styons) Hall, is a mental health counselor at Lees-McRae College, and his father, William Carlyle Hall, worked for IBM.[2] Hall grew up an only child, a sister having died in infancy before his birth. He has said of this: "There was a very one-on-one, immediate family relationship, my mom and I." His father died of prostate cancer in 1982 at the age of 39, when Hall was 11 years old.[3] In a 2004 interview, he stated: "Certainly, for a young boy, there's no good age, but I think I was on the cusp of a time in my life where I was starting to reach puberty, to relate to my father. To have him.... Something gets frozen. As you revisit it for the rest of your life, it's sort of this slow but hopefully sure crawling—out of that frozen moment."[4]
Hall attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, graduating in 1989,[5] and from Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, in 1993. He has said that he planned to become a lawyer but later admitted to never actually intending to go to law school.[6] Hall then attended New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1996.[7]
Career
Early in life Hall discovered acting, performing in What Love Is while in the second grade at Ravenscroft School. When he was in the fifth grade, he began singing in a boy's choir, then to musicals in high school, performing in standards such as The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Hall's professional acting career began in the theater. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Macbeth and Cymbeline at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and in Timon of Athens and Henry V at The Public Theater, The English Teachers at the Manhattan Class Company (MCC), and the controversial play Corpus Christi at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He also performed in the workshop production of what was then known as Sondheim's Wise Guys, later versions of which were titled Bounce and, finally, Road Show. He sang the role of Paris Singer; this character's songs and function in the play were transferred to the character Hollis Bessamer in the final version of the play. In Los Angeles, he appeared in Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum. He also was part of the Texas Shakespeare Festival the summer of 1995. He played Lancelot in Camelot,[8] Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream,[8] and Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing.[8]
Stage
During August 4–30, 1998, Hall performed in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline in the role of Posthumus.
In 1999, director Sam Mendes cast Hall as the flamboyant Emcee in the revival of Cabaret, his first Broadway role.
In 2003, Hall toured as Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago. In 2005 he returned to Off-Broadway theater in the premiere of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade, playing the title character, an emotionally disturbed little girl's imaginary friend.
In 2014, he returned to Broadway in the play The Realistic Joneses starring in the role of John Jones.
He assumed the title role in Hedwig and The Angry Inch on Broadway on October 16, 2014 and performed the role until January 18, 2015. Hall returned to the role of Hedwig from February 17–21, 2015 to replace John Cameron Mitchell who had a knee injury.
Six Feet Under
Mendes suggested Hall for the role of closeted David Fisher when Alan Ball began casting the TV drama Six Feet Under. "Everything opened up for me in Cabaret," but, Hall reported in a 2004 interview, "It slammed shut for David."[4]
Hall's work in the first season of Six Feet Under was recognized with a nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series[9] and for an AFI Award nomination for Actor of the Year in 2002 for his role as David Fisher. In addition, he shared in the Screen Actors Guild nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series all of five years that the show was in production, winning the award in 2003 and 2004.[10]
Dexter
Hall starred in and co-produced the Showtime television series Dexter, in which he played a sociopathic blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer / vigilante.[11] Jennifer Carpenter played his adoptive sister, Debra Morgan. The series premiered on October 1, 2006, and ended its run in 2013. For his work on Dexter, Hall was nominated for five more Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The show itself was also nominated for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 Emmy citations in the Drama Series category.[12] He won the 2007 Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.[13] Hall was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Drama in 2007 and again in 2008,[14] winning the award at the 67th Golden Globe Awards in 2010.[15] Also in 2010, he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. After months of rumors, on April 18, 2013, Showtime announced via social media that season eight would be the final season of Dexter.[16]
On January 16, 2014, Showtime President David Nevins said there have been discussions for a Dexter spinoff series that would take the character in a different direction and not continue the previous series. Nevins said that they would only do the show if Michael C. Hall agreed to return.[17]
Hall said he would be open to returning for a spinoff series however said "I can't even wrap my mind around that. And it's all just theoretical until there is some sort of script reflecting somebody's idea of where it could possibly go. But it's hard for me to imagine what that would be. Yeah, as far as playing Dexter again for an undefined amount of time, that's a little daunting to consider. But doing another television series—there's a lot of amazing stuff on TV. I don't want to do that right away. But I wouldn't say never to that."[18]
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Michael C. Hall voiced Kirk Langstrom / Batman in the 2015 direct to video animated series.
Film
Hall's film credits include the 2003 thriller Paycheck, the 2009 science fiction thriller Gamer, the 2011 comedy Peep World, and the 2011 drama The Trouble with Bliss. In 2013, he played the part of David Kammerer in the film Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas.[19] Michael performed in a film adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's cult novel Cold in July.[20] Jim Mickle directed.[21] The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.[22]
Personal life
On May 1, 2002, Hall married actress Amy Spanger; he played Billy Flynn opposite her Roxie Hart in the Broadway musical Chicago, the summer after their wedding. The couple separated in 2005 and filed for divorce in 2006. On December 31, 2008, he married Jennifer Carpenter, who played the character of Dexter Morgan's adoptive sister, Debra Morgan. They dated for a year prior to getting married.[23][24][25][26] In December 2010, Hall and Carpenter released a statement announcing that they had filed for divorce after having been separated "for some time," The divorce was finalized in December 2011.[27] Since September 2012, Hall has been dating Morgan Macgregor, who was an associate editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.[28]
Cancer
On January 13, 2010, Hall's agent and spokesman confirmed that he was undergoing treatment for a form of Hodgkin's lymphoma. In an interview, Hall said that it was quite upsetting to learn of his cancer when he was 38 years old as his father had died from cancer at age 39. However, he was grateful that they found the cancer at its early stages, which made it a lot easier to treat and cure.
Hall accepted his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010 while wearing a knitted cap over his bald head, having lost his hair due to chemotherapy.[29] On April 25, 2010, Carpenter announced that Hall was fully in remission[30] and was set to get back to work for a new season of Dexter.[31]
Charity
He is the face of the Somalia Aid Society's Feed The People campaign and has also worked with Kiehl's skin care line to do a limited-edition line that benefits the Waterkeeper Alliance, an environmental nonprofit that works toward clean and safe water worldwide.[32]
In 2011, Hall was the celebrity spokesperson for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Light the Night Walk" fundraising campaign.[33]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2003 | Paycheck | Agent Klein | |
| 2004 | Bereft | Jonathan | Television movie |
| 2006 | Mysteries of the Freemasons | Narrator | Television movie |
| 2009 | Gamer | Ken Castle | |
| 2011 | Peep World | Jack Meyerwitz | |
| 2012 | The Trouble with Bliss | Morris Bliss | |
| 2013 | Kill Your Darlings | David Kammerer | |
| 2014 | Cold in July | Richard Dane | Premiered at Sundance 2014 |
| 2015 | The Gettysburg Address | Leonard Swett | Voice |
| 2015 | Justice League: Gods and Monsters | Kirk Langstrom/Batman | Voice |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2005 | Six Feet Under | David Fisher | 63 episodes |
| 2006–2013 | Dexter | Dexter Morgan | 96 episodes |
| 2009–2010 | Dexter: Early Cuts | Dexter Morgan | 12 episodes |
| 2011 | Vietnam in HD | Narrator | Episode: "The Beginning" |
| 2012 | Ruth & Erica | Tom | 3 episodes |
| 2014 | Years of Living Dangerously | Himself | Episode: "A Dangerous Future" |
| 2015 | Star vs. the Forces of Evil | Toffee | Voice; 4 episodes |
Awards and nominations
See also
References
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