| Birth Name: Michael Carlyle Hall Date of Birth: 1 February 1971, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 
Michael C. Hall mini-bio:
Hall was born on February 1st, 1971 in Raleigh, North Carolina. His mother, Janice Styons Hall, is a high school guidance counselor in Wake Forest, and his father, William Carlyle Hall, worked for IBM. Hall grew up an only child, a sister having died in infancy before his birth.
He is said of growing up a single child that:
"There was a very one-on-one, immediate family relationship, my mom and I".
His father died of prostate cancer in 1982 when Hall was 11 years old. In a 2004 interview he was quoted as saying:
“ 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.”
Hall attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, graduating in 1989. He graduated from Earlham College in 1993 in which he had planned to become a lawyer. He later attended New York University's Master of Fine Arts program in New York City.
 Early on in life Hall discovered acting, performing in “What Love Is” while in the second grade. When he was in fifth grade, he began singing in a boy's choir, then graduated to musicals in high school, performing in standards such as The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and Fiddler on the Roof.
He finished his studies at Earlham as one of only three theater majors, an unenviable position for someone looking to find acting work. Hall found some cache when he ventured to New York to attend grad school at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, earning a master's of fine arts in 1996. Hall's 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 New York 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.
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. His only film credits are the 2003 thriller Paycheck, and the 2009 science fiction thriller Gamer. He also appeared in the 2003 TV movie Bereft. In 2005 he returned to Off-Broadway theatre in the premiere of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade, playing the title character, an emotionally disturbed little girl's imaginary friend. He will also star in Peep World in 2010.
Six Feet Under
Mendes also suggested Hall for the role of closeted David Fisher when Alan Ball began casting the TV drama Six Feet Under.
"Everything I opened up for Cabaret," Hall reported in a 2004 interview, "I slammed shut for David."
Hall's work in the first season of Six Feet Under was recognized by a 2002 Emmy nomination for an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and 2002 AFI Award nomination for Actor of the Year. In addition, he shared in the Screen Actors Guild nomination for best ensemble cast all five years that the show was in production, winning the award in 2003 and 2004.
Dexter
 After Six Feet Under hall was certain he didn't want to jump right onto another television show – until he read the script for Showtime's Dexter, a darkly comic drama about a blood-splatter technician in the Miami Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer who hunts other killers who have managed to slip through the judicial cracks. "Looking back, I guess it was kind of nuts to go straight into something else after Six Feet Under, but I recognized that Dexter would give me a chance to do something really different in a significant way," Hall says. "I couldn't pass it up." The challenge of playing such a complex and ambiguous character piqued Hall's interest right away, particularly Dexter's inability to express authentic human emotions, giving him the opportunity to portray one of the most controversial and talked-about television characters in recent memory.
"I think Dexter is a man who, a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being." - Michael said.
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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 and filed for divorce in 2006. On December 31, 2008, he eloped with Jennifer Carpenter, who plays his character Dexter Morgan's foster sister, Debra Morgan, on Showtime's Dexter.
Michael and Jennifer Carpenter married in a private ceremony on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2008. They dated for a year and a half prior to getting hitched. The ring was passed down from Carpenter’s grandfather.
In late 2009 Michael was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, which is part of the body’s immune system. In a statement Michael said:
"I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care."
Jennifer Carpenter who is by his side said:
"Every second's special with him, it sounds corny but it’s true. I’m very lucky." Hall says his cancer is currently in remission.
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 to chemotherapy.
On April 25, 2010 his wife, Jennifer Carpenter, announced that Hall was fully cured and was set to get back to work for a new season of Dexter.
The fifth season of Dexter is on the air, check out the trailer:
Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter -- who play brother and sister on the hit Showtime series "Dexter" -- were throwing in the towel on their union after nearly two years of marriage.
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| VITAL STATS | Michael C. Hall Information:
| | Eye color: Green/Brown (depends on the light) | | Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m) | | Nickname(s): Unknown | | Notable feature(s): Playing Dexter, in the TV series | | Education: Ravenscroft School, Raleigh ; Earlham College, Indiana ; New York's University Master Of Fine Arts Program, New York | Family: William Hall (father) ; Janice Hall (mother)
| | Resides in: Unknown | | Awards: 6 wins & 22 nominations | | Political affiliation: Unknown | | Personal interests/hobbies: Singing, yoga. | | Charities/Causes: Unknown | | Other: Zodiac sign - Aquarius | | |
