Age, Biography and Wiki
Michael C. Hall was born on February 1, 1971, making him 54 years old as of early 2025. He is widely recognized for his intricate and nuanced character portrayals, particularly as David Fisher in the HBO series "Six Feet Under" and the title character in Showtime's "Dexter." Hall's career spans both television and theater, with notable performances on Broadway. You can find more about his life and career on his Wikipedia page.
| Occupation | Stage Actor |
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| Date of Birth | 1 February 1971 |
| Age | 54 Years |
| Birth Place | Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
While specific details about Hall's height and weight are not extensively documented, he maintains a lean and fit physique, which has been a part of his enduring screen presence.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Hall has been married three times:
- Amy Spanger (2002-2007)
- Jennifer Carpenter (2008-2011), his "Dexter" co-star
- Morgan Macgregor (married in 2016)
Michael C. His mother, Janice (née Styons) Hall, was a mental health counselor at Lees-McRae College, and his 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."
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. They eloped on New Year's Eve 2008 in California and publicly appeared together for the first time as a married couple at the 66th Golden Globe Awards in January 2009. 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 the 6th season of Dexter.
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| Husband | Amy Spanger (m. 2002-2006) Jennifer Carpenter (m. 2008-2011) Morgan Macgregor (m. 2016) |
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Net Worth and Salary
As of 2025, Michael C. Hall's net worth is estimated to be approximately $25 million. His earnings primarily come from his successful roles in "Dexter" and "Six Feet Under." During the peak of "Dexter," he earned about $150,000 per episode, with some reports suggesting a higher salary of $830,000 per episode in later seasons.
Career, Business and Investments
- Television Career: Hall's breakout role was David Fisher in "Six Feet Under" (2001-2005), followed by his iconic portrayal of Dexter Morgan in "Dexter" (2006-2013) and its revival "Dexter: New Blood" (2021-2022).
- Stage Career: He has a strong background in theater, having performed in Broadway productions.
- Investments: Hall owns several properties, including a New York City apartment purchased for $4.3 million in Central Park West, and another in Greenwich Village for $4.2 million.
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 throughout the 1990s. Aside from his roles on Six Feet Under and Dexter, he starred in the Broadway musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch and in films including Paycheck, Gamer, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, Game Night, and In the Shadow of the Moon.
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 Stephen 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 Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1998, Hall performed in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, in the role of Posthumus Leonatus, which ran from August 4 to 30. In 1999, director Sam Mendes cast Hall as the flamboyant Emcee in the revival of Cabaret; this was Hall's first Broadway role. Hall's film credits from this period include the thriller Paycheck (2003) and the science fiction thriller Gamer (2009).
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 2017, Hall played US President John F. Kennedy in season two, episode eight, "Dear Mrs Kennedy", of the Netflix historical drama The Crown, alongside actress Jodi Balfour as First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Hall starred as Tom Delaney, a British widower and doctor, in Safe, an eight-part Netflix original crime drama which premiered on May 10, 2018. Also 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. Also in 2018, Hall narrated the audiobook version of Stephen King's horror novel Pet Sematary. Since 2018, Hall has written for and performed in the NYC band, Princess Goes (formerly Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum), alongside Matt Katz-Bohen and Peter Yanowitz. Hall met drummer Yanowitz while performing together in Hedwig and The Angry Inch. They struck up a friendship and soon began collaborating on songs with Katz-Bohen, who was also a member of the Hedwig cast.
Social Network
Hall is not particularly active on social media platforms, preferring to maintain a private life outside of his acting career.
Hall starred in and co-produced the Showtime television series Dexter, in which he played Dexter Morgan, 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 Dexter's 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 at the 23rd TCA Awards. Hall was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Drama in 2007 and 2008, and won in 2010 at the 67th Golden Globe Awards. Also in 2010, he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series at the 16th Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
Education
Hall attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina. He later studied at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, before transferring to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned an MFA in acting.
Hall discovered acting early in life: he performed in What Love Is when he was in second grade at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina. 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. Hall graduated from Ravenscroft School in 1989 and enrolled at Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. At Earlham, Hall continued acting, starring in Cabaret and other productions. Hall graduated from Earlham College with a Bachelor of Arts 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. Additionally, Hall graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts in 1996.
