Editing Michael C. Hall (section)

== Early life ==
Michael C. Hall was born in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]. His mother, Janice (née Styons) Hall, was a [[mental health counselor]] at [[Lees-McRae College]], and his father, William Carlyle Hall, was a [[Systems engineering|systems engineer manager]] for [[IBM]].<ref name="ref05">{{cite news| last=Tallmer| first=Jerry| title=Take a girl in a tutu, a man in a suit, and just add writer| publisher=The Villager| date=October 26, 2005| url=https://www.amny.com/news/take-a-girl-in-a-tutu-a-man-in-a-suit-and-just-add-writer/| access-date=September 11, 2009| archive-date=October 14, 2020| archive-url=https://archive.today/20201014210108/https://www.amny.com/news/take-a-girl-in-a-tutu-a-man-in-a-suit-and-just-add-writer/| url-status=live| quote=Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, February 1, 1971. His father, William Carlyle Hall, who worked for IBM, died when Michael was 11. Janice Styons Hall, Michael's mother, is head of guidance and dean of students at a high school in North Carolina.}}</ref> Hall had one older sister who died in infancy before his birth. His father died of [[prostate cancer]] in 1982 at the age of 39 when Hall was 11 years old. He has said of this, "There was a very one-on-one, immediate family relationship, my mom and I."<ref>{{cite web| title=Michael C Hall Biography| url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/michael-c-hall/biography.html| work=Yahoo! Movies| access-date=August 12, 2013| archive-date=September 22, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922024920/http://movies.yahoo.com/person/michael-c-hall/biography.html| url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2004 interview, Hall spoke about his experience in the wake of his father's death: "Certainly, for a young boy, there's no good age, but I think I was on the cusp of a time in my life where I was starting to reach puberty, to relate to my father. To have him ... something gets frozen. As you revisit it for the rest of your life, it's sort of this slow—but hopefully sure—crawling out of that frozen moment."<ref name="advocate_0">{{cite web|last=Stockwell|first=Anne|date=June 8, 2004|title=Hall of love and death|url=http://www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=21584|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120231856/https://www.advocate.com/?id=21584|archive-date=November 20, 2020|access-date=April 28, 2012|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]}}</ref>

Hall discovered acting early in life: he performed in ''What Love Is'' when he was in second grade at [[Ravenscroft School]] in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fifth grade, he began singing, first in a boys' choir, and later, in high school, in [[musical theatre|musicals]], performing in standards such as ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', ''[[Oklahoma!]]'', and ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''. Hall graduated from Ravenscroft School in 1989 <ref>{{cite web| title=Hall '89 and Dexter Earn Golden Globe Nominations| url=http://www.ravenscroft.org/page.cfm?p=66&newsid=1172| work=Ravenscroft School| access-date=August 12, 2013| date=December 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602132300/http://www.ravenscroft.org/page.cfm?p=66| archive-date=June 2, 2013| df=mdy-all}}</ref> and enrolled at [[Earlham College]], a liberal arts college in [[Richmond, Indiana]]. At Earlham, Hall continued acting, starring in [[Cabaret (musical)|''Cabaret'']] and other productions. Hall graduated from Earlham College with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1993. While he has said that he had planned to become a lawyer, he later acknowledged that he had never formed a serious intent to go to law school.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Robin |last=Sayers |date=October 2010 |title=Q + LA Michael C. Hall |magazine=[[Los Angeles Times Magazine]] |url=http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2010/10/michael-c-hall.html |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015106/http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2010/10/michael-c-hall.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, Hall graduated with a [[Master of Fine Arts]] from [[New York University]]'s graduate acting program at the [[Tisch School of the Arts]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite web | title=NYU Graduate Acting Alumni | url=http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html | year=2011 | access-date=December 1, 2011 | archive-date=July 5, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705121632/http://gradacting.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ga_alumbios.html | url-status=live }}</ref>