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Dexter Morgan

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Dexter Morgan is a character in the TV series Dexter (2006), played by Michael C. Hall.

10 Interesting Facts About Dexter Morgan

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#001
Dexter's apartment at 1155 103rd St, Miami, sits on the Bay Harbor Islands. Two of the roads ringing the island are East and West Bay Harbor Rd, which gave the killer his name: the Bay Harbor Butcher.
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#002
Michael C. Hall (Dexter Morgan) has called the wig he wears in flashback scenes "Surfer/Prince Valiant".
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#003
Jeff Lindsay said the idea for Dexter came to him at a business booster's lunch, when he looked at the crowd and thought serial murder isn't always a bad thing.
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#004
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Since the season was shot out of order to accommodate locations and weather, Dexter Morgan's death was filmed during the third week of principal photography. The last scene Michael C. Hall and Jack Alcott shot together was Dexter walking to the bus stop and properly introducing himself to Harrison.
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#005
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Jennifer Carpenter preferred that Deb die by suicide rather than at Dexter's hands, so that Deb would take away the one thing in his life that was totally alive.
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#006
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Nothing from the eight-season run of Dexter (2006) is altered by the new series. All of the original show stays canon, from Debra Morgan's death to the final sight of Dexter Morgan working as a lumberjack. His sister Debra does come back, though only as a figure in his imagination, taking over the role of his conscience from his adoptive father, Harry.
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#007
As a joke, Julie Benz coped with her character's death by bringing a Styrofoam tombstone and floating in a bathtub marked R.I.P.
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#008
After Six Feet Under ended in 2005, Michael C. Hall hesitated to join another TV series, asking himself whether he wanted to be surrounded by dead bodies for another indeterminate number of years.
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#009
David Zayas, who played Lieutenant Angel Batista, served as a real NYPD officer and studied acting while on the force; his partner ran lines with him during midnight shifts.
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#010
Julie Benz learned of Rita's death only an hour before the script went out, and an hour before shooting the scene she still didn't know how Rita would die.
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