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Michael C Hall
Actor
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- Date of Birth: 1971-02-01 (age 55)
- Nationality:
United States
- Place of birth: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Awards:
In 2009, Hall won a Golden Globe award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Dexter.
Mini Bio
Michael C. Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor whose television roles include David Fisher on the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and Dexter Morgan on the Showtime series Dexter.
Since the original show ended in 2013 after running for eight seasons, there have been three Dexter continuations: a sequel miniseries in 2021 titled Dexter: New Blood, a 2024 prequel series Dexter: Original Sin, and a direct New Blood follow-up, Dexter: Resurrection, in 2025.
Backstage
- Battling Hodgkin's lymphoma and the disease is in remission \[January 13, 2010\].
- Married Dexter (2006) co-star, Jennifer Carpenter, on December 31, 2008 at Big Sur, California. They divorced on December 2, 2011.
- His father died of cancer when he was eleven.
- An accomplished theater actor who has starred in nearly a dozen major off-Broadway plays.
- Has described the wig he wears in flashback scenes of Dexter (2006-2013), as "Surfer/Prince Valiant".
- Originally, he wanted to be a lawyer.
- Michael is the lead singer of the band Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum.
- He had an older sister who died before he was born.
- Michael grew up in North Carolina with his mother, a mental health counselor, after his father died of prostate cancer aged 39 when Hall was just 11.

