Call him Dexter

Biography for
Michael C. Hall
Date of Birth
1 February 1971, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Birth Name
Michael Carlyle Hall

Height
5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Mini Biography
Michael C. Hall is a North Carolina native and graduate of NYU's Master of Fine Arts program in acting. His most recent performance was on Broadway as the emcee in "Cabaret." Hall has previously starred in nearly a dozen major off-Broadway plays, including "Macbeth" for the New York Shakespeare Festival, "Cymbeline" for the New York Shakespeare Festival at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, "Timon of Athens" and "Henry V" at the Public, "The English Teachers" for Manhattan Class Company, "Corpus Christi" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and "Skylight" at the Mark Taper Forum.

Spouse
Jennifer Carpenter (31 December 2008 - present) (filed for divorce)
Amy Spanger (1 May 2002 - 2006) (divorced)
Trivia
An accomplished theater actor who's starred in nearly a dozen major off-Broadway plays.

Graduate of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1993.

His father died of cancer when he was 11.

Ex-wife Amy Spanger is a stage actress who's starred on Broadway in "Kiss Me Kate," "Tick...tick... BOOM!," and Boston production of "Rent.".

Appeared on Broadway alongside ex-wife, Amy Spanger, in the revival of Chicago. He played Billy Flynn, and she played Roxie Hart.

MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1996).

Wife Jennifer Carpenter plays his sister on "Dexter" (2006).

Married "Dexter" (2006) co-star, Jennifer Carpenter, on December 31, 2008 at Big Sur, California.

Attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina, the same school attended by actress Emily Procter, actor William Joyner, and editor Hughes Winborne.

Battling Hodgkin's lymphoma and the disease is in remission [January 13, 2010].

His publicist is Craig Bankey.

Originally, he wanted to be a lawyer.

An only child.


Personal Quotes
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.