He'll charm fellow officers with a doughnut, wile away a Sunday with his wife Rita and the kids, or chop up a victim and package their body parts in plastic bags. Hiding beneath the mundane exterior and contrived facade of Dexter, a charming blood spatter expert for the Miami police, is an obsession with meting his own twisted brand of justice: stalking and murdering the guilty.Michael C. Hall (48 episodes, 2006-2009)
Moving effortlessly from an uptight funeral director on Six Feet Under to a Miami blood-spatter analyst and serial killer in DEXTER, Michael C. Hall continues to illuminate the humanity and intelligence in transformative, challenging characters. For his performance as 'Dexter,' Hall received two Emmy® nominations and three consecutive Golden Globe and SAG award nominations.
A formally trained stage actor, Hall made an indelible impression as younger brother 'David Fisher' on HBO's groundbreaking series Six Feet Under. During the series' five-year run, Hall garnered nominations for an Emmy® Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Drama Series and the AFI Male Television Actor of the Year Award. Hall and the "Six Feet Under" cast received 2003 and 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, for which they were also nominated in 2002 and 2005.
On film, Hall will next star in Barry W. Blaustein's PEEP WORLD alongside Sarah Silverman and Rainn Wilson. This fall, Hall stars opposite Gerard Butler in Bryan Taylor's GAMER, set in a futuristic world where humans control other humans in an online game environment. Hall's film credits also include John Woo's PAYCHECK and the independent drama BEREFT.
A North Carolina native and graduate of New York University's Master of Fine Arts program in acting, Hall has appeared in nearly a dozen major stage productions. He made his Broadway debut as the emcee in "Cabaret," directed by Sam Mendes and most recently starred as 'Billy Flynn' in "Chicago." Off-Broadway, Hall starred opposite Alec Baldwin and Angela Bassett in "Macbeth," directed by George C. Wolfe and "Cymbeline" with Liev Schreiber for the New York Shakespeare Festival; "Timon of Athens" and "Henry V" at the Public Theater; "The English Teachers" for Manhattan Class Company; the Manhattan Theater Club's production of "Corpus Christi;" directed by Joe Mantello; and with Brian Cox in "Skylight" at the Mark Taper Forum.
