Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor, known for his role as Dexter Morgan in the Showtime TV Network Dexter, and as David Fisher on the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. In 2010, Hall won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Dexter.

Biography

On May 1, 2002, Hall married actress Amy Spanger; he played Billy Flynn opposite her Roxie Hart in the Broadway musical Chicago, the summer after their wedding. The couple separated in 2005 and filed for divorce in 2006. On December 31, 2008, he started dating Jennifer Carpenter, who played the character of Dexter Morgan's adoptive sister, Debra Morgan. They dated for a year prior to getting married. 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 finalized in December 2011. Since September 2012, Hall has been dating Morgan Macgregor, who was an associate editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.


Cancer
On January 13, 2010, Hall's agent and spokesman confirmed that he was undergoing treatment for a form of Hodgkin's lymphoma. In an interview, Hall said that it was quite upsetting to learn of his cancer when he was 38 years old as his father had died from cancer at age 39. However, he was grateful that they found the cancer at its early stages, which made it a lot easier to treat and cure.

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. On April 25, 2010, Carpenter announced that Hall was fully in remission and was set to get back to work for a new season of Dexter.


Charity
He is the face of the Somalia Aid Society's Feed The People campaign and has also worked with Kiehl's skin care line to do a limited-edition line that benefits the Waterkeeper Alliance, an environmental nonprofit that works toward clean and safe water worldwide.

In 2011, Hall was the celebrity spokesperson for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Light the Night Walk" fundraising campaign.