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American actor

Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor best known for his roles as Dexter Morgan, the titular character in the Showtime series Dexter, and David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. These two roles collectively earned Hall a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also acted in Broadway shows and narrated audiobooks. Born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Hall graduated from New York University's graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts in 1996. He began his acting career on Broadway in the revival of Cabaret and appeared in a variety of shows in the mid to late 1990s. Aside from his acclaimed roles on Six Feet Under and Dexter, he starred in the Broadway musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch from 2014 to 2015. He has also starred in films including Paycheck (2003), Gamer (2009), Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017), Game Night (2018), and In the Shadow of the Moon (2019). In 2021, he reprised his role of Dexter Morgan for the miniseries revival Dexter: New Blood.

Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. His mother, Janice (née Styons) Hall, is a mental health counselor at Lees McRae College, and his late father, William Carlyle Hall, was a systems engineer manager for IBM. Hall had one older sister who died in infancy before his birth. His father died of prostate cancer in 1982 at the age of 39 when Hall was 11 years old. He has said of this, "There was a very one on one, immediate family relationship, my mom and I." In a 2004 interview, Hall spoke about his experience in the wake of his father's death: "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 graduated from Ravenscroft School in Raleigh in 1989, and from Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, in 1993. While he has said that he had planned to become a lawyer, he later acknowledged that he had never formed a serious intent to go to law school. Hall graduated from New York University's graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts in 1996. Hall discovered acting early in life: he performed in What Love Is when he was in second grade at Ravenscroft School. In fifth grade, he began singing, first in a boys' choir, and later, in high school, in musicals, performing in standards such as The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and Fiddler on the Roof. While a student at Earlham College, he continued acting, starring in Cabaret and other productions.

Hall's professional acting career began in the theater. Off Broadway, he appeared in Macbeth and Cymbeline at the New York Shakespeare Festival; 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 the role of Paris Singer in the workshop production of a Sondheim musical (titled Wise Guys at the time, and in later versions, Bounce and then Road Show. His character's songs and function were transferred to the character Hollis Bessamer in the final version.) In Los Angeles, Hall appeared in Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum. As part of the Texas Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1995, he played Lancelot in Camelot, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for an AFI Award nomination for Actor of the Year in 2002. In addition, he shared in the Screen Actors Guild nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series all five years that the show was in production, winning the award in 2003 and 2004. 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.

Hall starred in and co produced the Showtime television series Dexter, in which he played a psychopathic blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department, who moonlights as a serial killer/vigilante. Jennifer Carpenter played his adoptive sister, Debra Morgan. The series premiered on October 1, 2006, and ended its run in 2013. After months of rumors, on April 18, 2013, Showtime announced via social media that season eight would be Dexters final season. Hall also voiced Dexter Morgan in the animated web series Dexter: Early Cuts. For his work on Dexter, Hall was nominated for five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series from 2008 to 2012. The show itself was also nominated for Emmy citations in the Drama Series category in the same years. He won the 2007 Television Critics Association award for Individual Achievement in Drama. Hall was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Drama in 2007, 2008, and again in 2010. Also in 2010, he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. In 2014, Hall stated he would be open to returning for a spinoff series, but 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." He has said he would consider revisiting his role as the serial killer if something was written that he deemed "worth pursuing". Hall's film credits include the thriller Paycheck (2003), the science fiction thriller Gamer (2009), the 2011 drama The Trouble with Bliss (2011), the comedy Peep World (2012), and Kill Your Darlings (2013). Hall performed in a film adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's cult novel Cold in July, directed by Jim Mickle. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Hall will portray Abraham Lincoln's advisor, Leonard Swett, in the documentary film The Gettysburg Address. 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.

At the end of 2015 and the start of 2016, Hall starred as Thomas Newton in the NYTW stage production of Lazarus, created by David Bowie and Enda Walsh. Hall performed the song "Lazarus", which appeared on Bowie's final album, Blackstar (2016), on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December 2015. He later appeared in the London production from October 25, 2016, until January 22, 2017. In January 2014, Showtime President David Nevins said there had been discussions for a Dexter spinoff series that would take the character in a different direction and not continue the previous series. Nevins said they would only do the show if Hall agreed to return. In October 2020, Showtime confirmed that Hall would reprise his role of Dexter Morgan in a 10 episode limited series, with Clyde Phillips returning as showrunner. The series premiered on November 7, 2021 and ended on January 9, 2022. The series finale was the most watched finale in the history of the network, it also set streaming records as well. In 2017, Hall played US President John F. Kennedy in season two, episode eight of the Netflix historical drama The Crown, alongside actress Jodi Balfour as First Lady Jackie Kennedy. He also starred as Tom Delaney, a British widower and doctor, in Safe, an eight part Netflix original crime drama which premiered on May 10, 2018. In 2018, Hall starred as Thom Pain in the off Broadway production of Thom Pain (based on nothing), a one man show written by Will Eno. The show was directed by Oliver Butler for the Signature Theatre Company in New York City, and it ran from October 23, 2018, to December 9, 2018, after being extended twice. On February 3, 2019, Hall starred as a fictionalized version of himself in the half hour long, one time only Broadway musical, Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical. Also in 2019, Hall starred as Holt in the Netflix thriller film In the Shadow of the Moon. Hall voices the character Toffee in Daron Nefcy's Star vs. the Forces of Evil and also voiced Batman in Justice League: Gods and Monsters. In 2018, Hall narrated the audiobook version of Stephen King's horror novel Pet Sematary. In 2019, Hall starred alongside Martha Plimpton and Hamish Linklater in an episode of the theatre podcast Playing on Air, titled "Nudity Rider". Hall currently sings for the band Princess Goes (formerly Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum) since 2018, alongside Matt Katz Bohen and Peter Yanowitz. On September 3, 2019, they filmed their first music video for their song, "Ketamine", in Tarrytown, New York. The audio for the song was released October 25, 2019, with the official music video premiering on Collider on December 12, 2019. The band's eponymous debut EP was released on April 2, 2020. In 2023, the band released their second album, 'Come of Age', and renamed themselves "Princess Goes".

In 2002, Hall married actress Amy Spanger. The summer after their wedding, Hall played Billy Flynn opposite Spanger's Roxie Hart in the Broadway musical Chicago. The pair divorced in 2006. In 2007, Hall began dating his Dexter co star Jennifer Carpenter. 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 granted for irreconcilable differences and finalized in December 2011; however, the two remain close friends. In September 2012, Hall began dating Morgan Macgregor, who was an associate editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and they married on February 29, 2016.

On January 13, 2010, Hall's agent and spokesman confirmed that Hall was undergoing treatment for a form of Hodgkin's lymphoma. In an interview, Hall said that it was upsetting to learn of his cancer when he was 38 years old, as his father had died from cancer at age 39. 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, which he covered with a wig in season 5 of Dexter. On April 25, 2010, Carpenter announced that Hall's cancer was fully in remission and he was set to get back to work for a new season of Dexter.

Hall is the face of the Somalia Aid Society's "Feed the People" campaign. He has also worked with Kiehl's to promote a limited edition skin care line that benefits the Waterkeeper Alliance, an environmental nonprofit organization that works toward clean and safe water worldwide. In 2011, Hall was the celebrity spokesperson for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Light the Night Walk" fundraising campaign.

Year Title Role Notes 2003 Paycheck Agent Klein 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 2015 Justice League: Gods and Monsters Kirk Langstrom / Batman Voice, direct to video 2016 Christine George Peter Ryan 2016 After Adderall Director 2017 Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House John Dean 2018 Game Night The Bulgarian 2019 The Report Thomas Eastman 2019 In the Shadow of the Moon Det. Holt 2021 John and the Hole Bradley Shay TBA The Gettysburg Address Leonard Swett Voice

Year Title Role Notes 1999 As the World Turns Jerry Klein 1 episode 2001–2005 Six Feet Under David Fisher 63 episodes 2004 Bereft Jonathan Television film 2006 Mysteries of the Freemasons Narrator Television film 2006–2013 Dexter Dexter Morgan 96 episodes; also executive producer 2009–2010 Dexter: Early Cuts Dexter Morgan Voice 2011 Vietnam in HD Narrator 2012 Ruth & Erica Tom 3 episodes 2014 Years of Living Dangerously Himself Episode: "A Dangerous Future" 2015 Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles Kirk Langstrom / Batman Voice, episode: "Twisted" 2015–2019 Star vs. the Forces of Evil Toffee Voice, 11 episodes 2017 The Crown John F. Kennedy Episode: "Dear Mrs. Kennedy" 2018 Safe Dr. Tom Delaney Also executive producer 2019 Documentary Now! Billy May "Dead Eyes" Dempsey Episode: "Any Given Saturday Afternoon"2020 The Defeated Tom Franklin Miniseries 2021–2022 Dexter: New Blood Dexter Morgan / Jim Lindsay Limited series; sequel to its original series Dexter

Year Title Role Venue 1996 Henry V Earl of Warwick Delacorte Theatre 1996 Timon of Athens Caphis Delacorte Theatre 1996 Skylight Edward Sergeant Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre 1998 Macbeth Malcolm The Public Theater 1998 Corpus Christi Saint Peter Manhattan Theatre Club 1998 Cymbeline Posthumus Leonatus Delacorte Theatre 1999–2000 Cabaret Emcee Studio 54 2002 Chicago Billy Flynn Richard Rodgers Theatre 2004 R Shomon Morito/Thief/Reporter Williamstown Theatre Festival 2005 Mr. Marmalade Mr. Marmalade Laura Pels Theatre 2014 The Realistic Joneses John Jones Lyceum Theatre 2014–2015 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig Belasco Theatre 2015–2017 Lazarus Thomas Jerome Newton New York Theatre WorkshopKing's Cross Theatre 2018 Thom Pain (based on nothing) Thom Pain Signature Theatre Company 2019 Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical Himself Midtown Manhattan's Town Hall