Michael C. Hall

Michael C. Hall was born on 1st February 1971 in North Carolina to Janice Hall and William Carlyle Hall. His father worked in the top company IBM and Mother is a health counselor at Lees-McRae College. Hall was their single child as his sister couldn't survive birth. It is regarded that his father suffered from Prostate Cancer which was detected in 1982.However, He died soon. At that time Hall had just entered his teens; to be precise, he was 11 years old. Since then, he was under the study of his mother who imbibed in him ethical and moral values and too inspired him to make acting his profession.

An insight into his personal life, tells us that Hall did his schooling from Ravenscroft School located in Raleigh and graduated in 1989. In 1993, he joined the Earlham College, a famous arts college situated in Richmond, Indiana. In 1996, he got admitted himself in the Tisch School of the Arts, pursuing the Graduate Acting Programme at New York University.

Hall married Amy Spanger, a successful actress of the American Film Industry in 2002. However, Their relationship couldn’t survive and in 2005 they separated, filing a divorce in a civil court. Hall in 2007 began to date his co-star from the sets of Dexter, Jennifer Carpenter Jennifer Carpenter aka Jennifer Leann Carpenter is >> Read More... . They then ran away secretly and married each other and made their first appearance together at the Golden Globe Awards of 2009. This relationship also couldn’t survive and ended in less than a year. Both of them filed a Divorce from session's court sighting issues with their relation.Obtaining Divorce was a long drawn process this time as it got finalized towards the end of 2011 due to pertinent differences among them. However, it's regarded that both of them share the bond of being close and best friends.

Soon, Hall started to date Morgan Macgregor, who works as an Editor ina Publishing firm of Los Angeles. They both got recently married early this year, to be precise, 29th February 2016. In 2010, Hall was diagnosed with the Hodgkin's Lymphoma medical illness. He underwent treatment for the same. He regards himself grateful as his cancer got identified at an initial early stage, unlike his father who passed away soon after the diagnosis. It seems that due to Chemotherapy, he lost his hair but is now fully set to make his comeback in the Dexter's new season.

Hall is an active social worker. He does charity and is an active participant in the Aid Society functioning in Somalia that feeds poor and underprivileged people. He has taken initiatives to protect and promote skin care. He is the face of many medical related fun raising events.

Hall had a passion for acting and theater very early in life. This is evident through his participation in such activities from the second class itself. From the fifth grade, he sang in the boys' choir. Also, he attended and performed in Musical programs held at the school level. From his youth, He actively participated in standards like the Sound of Music, The Roof, and Oklahoma! This inspired him to take up his dream career of acting. He further harnessed his career by taking up lead roles in production and skits at his college's stage show "Cabaret." Hall embarked on his career path by beginning acting in the theater. He marked his way into well-known plays of the time, namely Macbeth and Cymbeline at the Shakespeare Festival held in New York. He acted in a plethora of plays like Timon of Athens, The English Teachers and the very critical and controversial play of Corpus Christi. He organized his production in workshops. Later on, these came to be labeled as Bounce and Road Show. He formed a part of the Shakespeare Festival of Texas that was held in the summer of '95.

In 2003, Hall worked on the movie Paycheck, as an Agent Klein. Since 2009, Hall has done a multitude of movies assuming the lead roles in the majority of them. 2009, Gamer, roped in Hall for doing the character of Ken Castle. In 2012, he was projected in the lead role of Morris Bliss for the film, "The Trouble with Bliss." He then featured in the 2014 film, Cold in July. He made his debut in the 2016 movies like Christine playing the role of George Ryan. He will be shortly seen in his upcoming film, Felt, whose shooting is on track right now.

He debuted in several television shows. However, the most popular of all is the sequel of Dexter. The show aired from 2006 till 2013 completing a mark of 96 episodes. He played the role of a Psychopath Analyst for the Police Department of Miami. The show earned a huge TRP and became the cause of Hall's success. It was a benchmark series that inaugurated his career and won him awards in a row. In 2007, he was awarded Individual Achievement in the Field of Drama by Television Critics Association for Dexter. He was conferred the award of Best Actor forTelevision show, Dexter by the Golden Globe Association in 2010. At the Television Festival hosted by Top Clothing Brand Monte Carlo Click to look into! >> Read More... , he was adjudged as the Outstanding Actor for Dexter.He also received three awards in a row for his television series, Six Feet Under Six Feet Under is an American comedy-drama televis >> Read More... , by the Guild of Screen Actors in 2003, 2004, and 2005 respectively.

He is a successful actor of the American Film and Cinema.

Another Version Of This Bio:

Born in Haleigh, North Carolina, Michael C. Hall is an American actor, famously known for his mind-blowing role in the Showtime TV Network Series television series, “Dexter,” in which he bagged the titular character of “Dexter Morgan,” a blood spatter analyst. Hall is very close to his mother after the death of his father due to prostate cancer in the year 1982. Initially, Hall wanted to be a lawyer but never went to law school because he never really intended to anyway. He graduated from New York City’s “Graduate Acting Programme” at the Tisch School of Arts in 1996.

Michael C. Hall always had an interest in acting with all the musicals and plays he took part in during his school days and professional areas Off-Broadway like “New York Shakespeare Festival”, “The Public Theatre”, “Manhattan Class Company”, and “Manhattan Theatre Club”. His first Broadway role was as Emcee in the revival of “Cabaret” in the year 1999.The director of “Cabaret” suggested Hall’s name for the role of David Fisher in the television series, “Six Feet Under.” For the same, the actor shared more than a couple nominations at the award functions like Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild. In “Dexter”, he played the role of a psychopathic blood-spatter analyst, who was also a serial killer/vigilante. His work was appreciated so much that he got nominated for his role in “Dexter,” receiving five nominations in the Emmys, and winning a “Screen Actors Guild Award” for “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.”

In the year 2002, he married the actress, “Amy Spanger” and filed for divorce in the year 2006. After eloping with the co-star, Jennifer Carpenter on the New Year’s Eve in the year 2008, he appeared once again in the media as a married man with the former person. Unfortunately, in December 2011, they finalized the divorce and separated eventually, still claiming to be good friends. In the year 2010, he was also undergoing treatment for the cancerous disease of “Hodgkin’s lymphoma”. In April 2005, he was in full recovery and ready to make a comeback on the sets of Dexter’s new season.