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Anthony Michael Hall <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  Anthony Michael Hall (April 14, 1968) is an American actor, producer, and director who has appeared in several notable film and television roles. His most recent and notable appearance is as the star of the USA Network series, The Dead Zone. Hall came to fame as a member of the brat pack, appearing in the films Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, and Breakfast Club. He made his transition to adult roles by joining the cast of Saturday Night Live and making appearances in the films Johnny Be Good, Edward Scissorhands, and Six Degrees of Separation.
BiographyHall was born in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, to singer and actress Mercedes Hall and Larry Hall. The couple divorced before Hall was a year old and he and his mother moved to the West Coast, where she worked as a singer. Not long after, they moved back East to New York City. His mother remarried, to Thomas Chestaro, a show business manager, and they had a daughter, Mary Chestaro. Hall is known as "Michael" to his friends and acquaintances. Hall attended St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School New York and later the Manhattan's Professional Children's School. He began acting at eight and continued to do so throughout high school, forgoing college to focus on his career. He worked first in television commercials, and made his stage debut playing a young Steve Allen in The Wake. CareerHe made his telefilm debut in the movie The Gold Bug playing a young Edgar Allan Poe. He gained notice playing Doc in the 1982 film, Six Pack and followed up with appearances in National Lampoon's Vacation and a trio of John Hughes films, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. His role as Farmer Ted in Sixteen Candles proved to be his breakout role, and made Hall and co-star Molly Ringwald overnight stars. Hall joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1985 at the age of 17, the show's youngest cast member. Not wanting to be type cast as a geek, he turned down the role of Cameron Frye in John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Phil Dale in Pretty in Pink. He instead took the lead role in Out of Bounds an unsuccessful action thriller. In 1988, he starred in Johnny Be Good with Uma Thurman and Robert Downey Jr.. In 1990, Hall appeared in the fantasy films A Gnome Named Gnorm and Edward Scissorhands. He followed up with an appearance in the acclaimed Six Degrees of Separation as Trent Conway, a gay con artist opposite Will Smith. Several less successful roles followed in the mid and late 90s. He made guest appearances on NYPD Blue and the short-lived scifi series Deadly Games. He also guest starred on Poltergeist: The Legacy, Touched by an Angel, and The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. In 1999, he starred as Bill Gates in the Emmy-nominated TV Movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. In 2000, he appeared in The Hunger and the TV movie The Photographer and followed up with Hitched and The Caveman's Valentine with Samuel L. Jackson. He began starring in The Dead Zone, a series based on the Stephen King novel, in 2002 as the lead character Johnny Smith. Recent projects include Aftermath and Final Approach. Other WorkHall is the lead singer and songwriter for his band, Hall of Mirror. They release an album in 1999, Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors. The Album featured collaborations with Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clark and keyboard player, Tommy Barbarella. He is also associated with the literacy program, The Anthony Michael Hall Literacy Club, associated with Chapman University. The club allows students to improve their literacy skills through film, music, and other artistic expression.
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