Michael Carlyle Hall, born February 1, 1971, professionally known as Michael C. Hall, is an award-winning American actor and singer. He is widely 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. Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Full Name: | Michael Carlyle Hall |
Date of Birth: | February 1, 1971 |
Place of Birth: | Raleigh, North Carolina |
State of Origin: | North Carolina |
Nationality: | American |
Occupation: | Actor & Singer |
Net Worth: | $25 million |
Wife/Spouse: | Morgan Macgregor |
Early Life and Education
Raleigh, North Carolina, is where Michael C. Hall was born. His father, William Carlyle Hall, is a systems engineer manager at IBM, and his mother, Janice (née Styons) Hall, is a mental health counselor at Lees-McRae College.
Prior to Hall’s birth, his older sister died in infancy. Hall was 11 years old when his father, who had been 39 years old, passed away from prostate cancer.
Hall earned his high school diploma from Raleigh’s Ravenscroft School in 1989 and his liberal arts degree from Richmond, Indiana’s Earlham College in 1993.
Although he initially claimed that he had made a serious decision to go law school, he later admitted that he had never formed a serious intention to become a lawyer.
In 1996, Hall completed the graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University.
Career
Michael C. Hall first became interested in performing while he was in second grade at Ravenscroft School and appeared in the play What Love Is.
He started singing in a boy’s choir in the fifth grade and later performed in musicals in high school, including classics like The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, and Fiddler on the Roof.
He continued playing while attending Earlham College, appearing in Cabaret and other plays.
The theater was where Hall’s professional acting career began. He performed Off-Broadway in The English Teachers at the Manhattan Class Company (MCC), Macbeth and Cymbeline at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Timon of Athens and Henry V at The Public Theater, and the contentious piece Corpus Christi at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Additionally, he played Paris Singer in the workshop version of the Sondheim musical Wise Guys, which later went by the names Bounce and Road Show.
In the finished version, the songs and role of his character were given to Hollis Bessamer.) Hall performed in Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Michael C. Hall Net Worth
American actor Michael C. Hall has a net worth of $25 million. He is a talented and one of richest actors in the United States.
Personal Life
Michael C. Hall married Amy Spanger, an actress in 2002. Following their nuptials, Hall co-starred with Spanger as Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago as Billy Flynn. The couple separated in 2006.
Hall started dating Jennifer Carpenter, his Dexter co-star, in 2007. They got married in secret on January 1st, 2009, at the 66th Golden Globe Awards after eloping on New Year’s Eve, 2008, in California.
After being “some time” apart, Hall and Carpenter announced in a statement that they had filed for divorce in December 2010.
The two are still close friends despite the divorce being granted for irreconcilable reasons and being completed in December 2011.
Michael C. Hall started dating assistant editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books Morgan Macgregor in September 2012; the couple wed on February 29, 2016.
Social Media
Instagram: @mchdaily