It’s been quite a year for Dexter star Michael C. Hall.
To recap:

Just one month before his 38th birthday, he married co-star Jennifer Carpenter.
Then, he took his character to new levels on Season 4 of Dexter, raising his game to work with guest star John Lithgow.
He also made a splash on the big screen opposite Gerard Butler, all before being diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma.
The cancer treatment didn’t slow him down much, though, with Hall winning two major Hollywood honors — a Golden Globe and a SAG Award.
Through it all, he navigated the media attention surrounding his illness with tact and grace.

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What did you do this weekend? If you’re like me, you spent Sunday dawdling over brunch before going on a grocery run.
Turns out that was exactly the itinerary for Dexter stars Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, too.
Image: Bauer-Griffin
The day after Hall won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Dexter Morgan, the married couple was spotted grabbing breakfast at L.A.’s Mustard Seed Cafe, then shopping for groceries at Gelson’s supermarket.
MCH looked happy and relaxed with Jennifer, even as he’s midway through his treatment for cancer. Of course, the SAG award and his Golden Globe win two weeks ago …read more

Proving yet again what a gracious winner he is, Dexter’s Michael C. Hall modestly deflected questions about his win for best dramatic actor in a TV series at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this weekend, just a week after he won a Golden Globe for his performance as Dexter Morgan in the Showtime series’ fourth season.
To celebrate, Hall, who is undergoing treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma, planned to join wife/co-star Jennifer Carpenter and the rest of the Dexter cast at a party after the awards ceremony. Check out his interview with E!:

Congrats, Michael C. Hall! After four amazing seasons as the title character on Dexter, it seems that is award season belongs to you!
Along with a Golden Globe win last weekend, you scored a Screen Actors Guild Award this weekend — and proved yet again how strong you and wife Jennifer Carpenter have been in the face of your cancer diagnosis and treatment.

After his win, Hall told reporters that he’s had a groundswell of support from friends old and new after going public with the news that he has Hodgkins Lymphoma.
He added that, while he had some inkling that Dexter would …read more

Ask and you shall receive. After whining yesterday that we didn’t have any Golden Globes photos of Dexter co-stars and husband and wife Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter together, an eagle-eyed reader pointed us in the direction of this sweet pic of the couple at a Globes after party.

That same loyal reader also shared this great interview with Carpenter from Access Hollywood, in which she talks about her husband’s battle with cancer.
In a quick pre-Globes chat, Carpenter said just a year into their marriage, the two have gotten even closer as they worked together to choose the best treatment …read more

Worst news of the day: Dexter star Michael C. Hall has cancer.
Slightly better news of the day: It’s in remission.
The 38-year-old star, who plays serial-killer slayer Dexter Morgan on the Showtime series, has been receiving treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, E!’s Uberblog reports.
Hall said doctors caught the disease early, so he was able to get the best treatment.
“I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition,” he said.
Hall’s treatment regimen shouldn’t crimp his award-season style, E! added.
Hall and wife/co-star Jennifer Carpenter (shown here in Berlin, Germany) expect to make a red-carpet appearance at Sunday’s Golden …read more

As the year-end buzz fades to an echo, we have one more bit of good news for Showtime stars. USA Today put four actors from Showtime series high on its list of the best TV performances in 2009.
Edie Falco was named best comedic actress for her performance on Nurse Jackie.
“Think of every overused term of praise you’ve ever heard, including ‘brilliant,’ ’stunning,’ ‘electrifying,’ ‘riveting” and ‘genius,’ ” wrote critic Robert Bianco. “They all apply. If I had to pick one performer of either sex and in any genre, from series to movies, it would be Falco.”
United States of Tara’s …read more

Earlier this week, Dexter co-stars Michael C. Hall and Julie Benz were spotted on set in Long Beach, Calif., which stands in for the series’ Miami location.
According to Benz, this week was a wrap on filming Season 4, and we have a lot to look forward to on the season finale in December.
On Monday, the day these photos were shot, Benz posted on Twitter that it was the second-to-last day of shooting for Season 4, “and last early morning in Long Beach!!!!”

Benz doesn’t look sleepy in these pics, quite the contrary, but Hall sure looks intense as he arrives for …read more

Dexter fans who live near one of the series’ suburban Miami shoot locations have gone a little batty for the show’s star.
Neighborhood residents are asking Michael C. Hall to autograph sharp implements, MCH tells Entertainment Weekly in the magazine’ s fall TV preview, due on newsstands tomorrow.
As the cast filmed Season 4, Hall said there were a number of interruptions from bloodthirsty fans.
“We were on set recently, and one woman took a knife out of her kitchen and asked me to sign it,” he told EW. “The next thing I knew, everybody else in the neighborhood was bringing me knives from their …read more

The new season of Dexter is still a few weeks away, but Michael C. Hall fans can get a dose of the actor’s incredible talent this weekend, with the opening of his action film Gamer.
MCH plays Ken Castle, the computer genius who developed the games Society and Slayer, which let players control real people as their avatars. Society let players run a community, but was non-violent (think The Sims). Slayer, on the other hand, is a killing game that uses death row inmates as the avatars. They can earn their freedom if they survive 30 levels of the game — …read more