He played the lead role of Dexter Morgan in the series Dexter, during the entire run of that series, from 2006 to 2013.
The exposure these roles gave him led to his being cast in Six Feet Under, which aired from 2001 to 2005. 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. He is currently the lead vocalist in the band Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum.īorn 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 has also acted in Broadway shows and narrated audiobooks. In 2010, Hall won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Dexter. He is best known for his roles as Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter analyst and serial killer in the Showtime series Dexter, and as David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor, musician, and producer.
