- After Hale accepted his 2013 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor on Veep (2012), he stood on stage behind co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus as she accepted her own award and pretended to feed her lines (just as he does on the show, in which he played her groveling assistant).
- He met his future wife, Martel Thompson Hale, at a Bible study group in New York. The couple welcomed their first child, a girl, in 2006.
- Often recognized as the star of the famous VW commercial featuring his dancing to the song "Mr. Roboto."
- A graduate of Samford University (in Birmingham, Alabama), where he joined Sigma Chi Fraternity.
- Was raised in Tallahassee, Florida. His mother, Rita (Garnett) Hale, worked as a staff assistant to State Rep. Kathy Ashe. His father, Mike Hale, is a military veteran, who taught nuclear and atomic physics.
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