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Despite his lack of experience on television and in movies, Michael C. Crawford brings years of experience from the stage and theater. But after jumping into the world of Hollywood, television and movie rolls quickly started to come his way. 

Michael was born on February 1, 1971 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, as an only child. His father, who worked for IBM, died of prostate cancer when he was only eleven years old. His mother, a guidance counselor, earned her doctorate in education after his father died. As a young boy, he grew fond of acting, getting his start in the play “What Love Is” in second grade, and then joining the school choir in fifth grade. 

He also appeared in musicals while in high school, performing in “The Sound of Music,” “Oklahoma!” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” After graduating from high school, he attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, a liberal arts school where he studied to be a lawyer. Instead, he started taking acting classes and fell in love with the idea of a show business career. He finished his studies at Earlham as one of only three theater majors, then moved to New York to attend graduate school at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, earning a master’s of fine arts in 1996. 

He immediately hired an agent and began performing theater, taking understudy roles in “Henry V” and “Timon of Athens,” before portraying Malcolm in Alec Baldwin’s production of “Macbeth” at the Public Theater – his first major role in New York City. From there, he gained more attention on the stage as Posthumous in “Cymbeline”, and as the Apostle Peter in Terrence McNally’s gay themed version of The Gospels in, “Corpus Christi.” He continued his work on Broadway when he took over Alan Cumming’s role as the sexually devious emcee in a Broadway production of “Cabaret”.

His first lucky break was in the role of Agent Klein in "Paycheck" (2003), a sci-fi thriller starring Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Paul Giamatti, where what seems like an easy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased. He then tried his hand at made for TV movies with "Bereft" (2004), about a young Vermont widow who is haunted by the memory of her dead husband while trying to date again.

Michael C. Hall quickly gained attention for his roles on television. His breakthrough role as the anxious gay mortician David Fisher on “Six Feet Under” (2001) shot him into the realm of Hollywood celebrity. "Six Feet Under" was a drama series that took a darkly comical look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home. With the prodigal oldest son (Peter Krause) returning home for the holidays to shocking news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while learning out how to go ahead with the business of the living. It is a funny and emotional look at a grieving American family, that just happens to be in the grief management business. The popular series won three Emmy Awards, and the actor was singled out for an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

His next big Hollywood break was in the role of Dexter Morgan, a man who during the day is a good-humored employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's crime lab who analysis blood spatter, but his meticulously crafted life masks his true nature. In reality, Dexter Morgan is a disciplined and murderous psychopath, and he satisfies his blood lust at night by carefully killing the serial killers he tracks down during the day. The series is based on the novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter and Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay. 

He then moved back to movie making with the thriller "Game" (2009), starring with Gerard Butler, John Leguizamo and Kyra Sedgwick. The film is set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind. 

Watch Michael C. Hall In "Dexter" Interview

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