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Anthony Michael Hall (born April 14, 1968 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts) is a U.S. movie actor who became famous playing a nerd in several successful, teenage Brat Pack films of the 1980s.

After his early success at playing a geek (National Lampoon's Vacation
, Sixteen Candles
, The Breakfast Club
, Weird Science
), Hall avoided playing similar roles to escape the nerdy typecast.

He appeared as a regular on Saturday Night Live
at the age of 17, the youngest cast member ever. After a string of bizarre behavior, a tour in rehabilitation for alcoholism, and late puberty, a far more athletic Hall appeared in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands
(1990), this time playing the part of a villainous football player.

Hall has denied he was ever in rehab, saying the closest he got was visiting friend Robert Downey, Jr. in jail. Hall has been diagnosed as bi-polar and was the subject of a lawsuit for shutting down due to his illness.

Hall starred in Hail Caesar
, a film about a would-be rock star who works in a pencil eraser factory, which Hall also directed. Hall continues to appear regularly in major films in a variety of roles such as Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley
and baseball player Whitey Ford in 61*
. He also stars in The Dead Zone, a hit television series based on the Stephen King novel.

Hall writes and sings for his band, Hall of Mirrors. His sister is also a singer using the stage name of , his mother is a cabaret singer who also has a

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