Dexter – Season 7 Teaser
The upcoming seventh season of Dexter sees the Miami serial killer busted by his own sister, Comic-Con fans learned yesterday. A brief look (see below) at the opening minutes of the upcoming Showtime series’ next-to-last season showed Dexter Morgan caught by his homicide detective foster sibling Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) as he cuts up the series’ Travis character. After trying to talk his way out of the situation, the forensic analyst finally seems to lose his cool when Debra goes to call in the incident. That’s when the screen went black and the crowd went wild. Otherwise, despite a lengthy Q&A from adoring fans, cast members Michael C. Hall, Carpenter, and executive producer Scott Buck kept pretty quiet about what the new season will bring. What was not quiet was that Yvonne Strahovski, the former Chuck co-star, would be joining the show this year as Hanna. Described by the actress, who was also on the panel, as “a woman of mystery who meets Dexter and helps him with an old murder investigation,” the Hanna character seemed to be a pivotal figure in the season. “I can’t say more, there are lots of things I’m not allowed to say or I’ll get in trouble,” said Strahovski. She did say that while she had only been filming on Dexter for a few days she already liked it more than her former show. “Dexter’s better,” Strahovski said to big applause. Earlier the packed ballroom was shown scenes from a Dexter video game and a new episode from the new season of the animated Dexter prequel web series Final Cuts. Here’s that footage:
Michael C. Hall
Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor whose television roles include David Fisher on the HBO drama series ‘Six Feet Under’ and Dexter Morgan on the Showtime series ‘Dexter’.
Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. His mother, Janice Styons Hall, is a high school guidance counselor in Wake Forest, and his father, William Carlyle Hall, worked for IBM. Hall grew up an only child, a sister having died in infancy before his birth. He has said of growing up a single child, that “There was a very one-on-one, immediate family relationship, my mom and I”. His father died of prostate cancer in 1982, when Hall was 11 years old. Hall attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, graduating in 1989. He graduated from Earlham College in 1993 and had planned to become a lawyer. He later attended New York University’s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1996.
Hall’s acting career began in the theatre. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Macbeth at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and in Henry V at The Public Theater, and the controversial play Corpus Christi at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He also performed in the workshop production of what was then known as Sondheim’s Wise Guys, later version of which was titled Road Show. He sang the role of Paris Singer; this character’s songs and function in the play were transferred to the character Hollis Bessamer in the final version of the play. In Los Angeles, he appeared in Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum.
In 1999, director Sam Mendes cast Hall as the flamboyant Emcee in the revival of Cabaret, his first Broadway role.
In 2003, Hall toured as Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago. In 2005 he returned to Off-Broadway theater in the premiere of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade, playing the title character, an emotionally disturbed little girl’s imaginary friend.
Mendes suggested Hall for the role of closeted David Fisher when Alan Ball began casting the TV drama ‘Six Feet Under’. “Everything I opened up for Cabaret,” Hall reported in a 2004 interview, “I slammed shut for David.”
Hall’s work in the first season of Six Feet Under was recognized by an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and for an AFI Award nomination for Actor of the Year in 2002 for his role as David Fisher. In addition, he shared in the Screen Actors Guild Nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series all five years that the show was in production, winning the award in 2003 and 2004.
Hall is currently starring in and co-producing the Showtime television series Dexter, in which he plays the titular character, a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a vigilante serial killer. The series also casts Hall’s ex-wife, Jennifer Carpenter as his foster sister, Debra Morgan. The series premiered on October 1, 2006 and its sixth season began on October 2, 2011. For his work on Dexter, Hall has been nominated for three more Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The show itself was also nominated for a 2008, 2009 and 2010 Emmy in the Drama series category. He won the 2007 Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. Hall was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Drama in 2007, and again in 2008 finally winning the award at the 67th Golden Globe Awards in 2010. Also in 2010, he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
On January 13, 2010, his agent and spokesman confirmed that he was undergoing treatment for a treatable form of Hodgkins lymphoma. 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 the chemotherapy treatment he was undergoing at the time. On April 25, 2010, Carpenter announced that Hall was fully cured and was set to get back to work for a new season of Dexter.
Season 6 premiered on October 2, 2011. Michael C. Hall was nominated for Best Leading Actor in a Drama series at the 2011 Emmy Awards, but did not win the category. On November 18, 2011, it was announced that Dexter had been renewed for both a seventh and eighth season.
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