- Ex-wife Jennifer Carpenter plays his sister on Dexter (2006).
- Battling Hodgkin's lymphoma and the disease is in remission [January 13, 2010].
- Married Dexter (2006) co-star, Jennifer Carpenter, on December 31, 2008 at Big Sur, California. They divorced on December 2, 2011.
- An accomplished theater actor who has starred in nearly a dozen major off-Broadway plays.
- His father died of cancer when he was eleven.
- Originally, he wanted to be a lawyer.
- He had an older sister who died before he was born.
- MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1996).
- Michael is the lead singer of the band Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum.
- Graduate of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1993.
- Appeared on Broadway alongside ex-wife, Amy Spanger, in the revival of Chicago. He played Billy Flynn, and she played Roxie Hart.
- Ex-wife Amy Spanger is a stage actress who has starred on Broadway in "Kiss Me Kate" and "Tick...tick... BOOM!", and a Boston production of "Rent".
- Attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, North Carolina, the same school attended by actress Emily Procter, actor William Joyner, and editor Hughes Winborne.
- Formed a band in 2018/2019 called 'Princess Goes', along with Matt Katz-Bohen, and Peter Yanowitz. Princess Goes has called their style "kaleidoscopic sound weather" and "danceable apocalypse".
- Prior to becoming an actor, Michael's jobs included selling suits, moving furniture and working as a technician in a post-op recovery room.
- Michael grew up in South Carolina with his mother, a mental health counsellor, after his father died of prostate cancer aged 39 when Hall was just 11.
- One of Michael's best loved songs is "Purple Rain" by Prince.
- The 'C.' in Michael's name stands for Carlyle. His father and grandfather also had this middle name.
- Went to the same school in North Carolina as the mother of actor Jeremy Allen White.
- His publicist is Craig Bankey.
- Has described the wig he wears in flashback scenes of Dexter (2006-2013), as "Surfer/Prince Valiant".
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