Michael Carlyle Hall

Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971[1]) is an American actor and musician. He is known for playing the titular character in the Showtime series Dexter and David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under, which collectively earned Hall a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.[2] He has also acted in Broadway shows and narrated audiobooks. He is currently the lead vocalist in the band Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum.

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, and led the 2019 Netflix thriller film In the Shadow of the Moon. In 2021, he returned to play the role of Dexter Morgan for a miniseries revival Dexter: New Blood.