Dexter: Original Sin is throwing Us back into the fictional serial killer’s twisted world — but how does the cast of the prequel compare to the original Dexter cast?
Michael C. Hall originally played the titular role of Dexter from 2006 to 2013. Original Sin is set in 1991, focusing on Dexter’s transition from student to avenging serial killer and unsuspecting member of the Miami Metro Police Department.
Patrick Gibson is taking over the role while Molly Brown, James Martinez, Christina Milian, Christian Slater and Alex Shimizu all play characters from the OG Showtime series. Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patrick Dempsey and Reno Wilson round out the cast as new characters introduced in the Paramount+ series.
Hall previously returned to TV screens as Dexter in a spinoff titled New Blood, which was released in 2021 but ended just one year later. There are additional plans for another sequel series, although it remains unclear how Hall will star as Dexter again since his character has died — multiple times over.
“I’m on the inside to a certain degree and I have a sense of what’s coming but I’m really excited,” Hall told Entertainment Weekly in August 2024 about the future of the franchise. “I’ve spent so much time with this character and to go back and have all the imaginative blanks filled in is going to be great.”
Hall said he was excited to have more of a reference for his character thanks to Dexter: Resurrection, adding, “The scripts they’ve executed are fantastic. I can’t wait, like, as a fan, to watch it, and as an actor to spend time seeing real footage of things that I’ve sort of tried to imagine for myself when I imagine what Dexter’s early days [were like].”
He concluded: “Now I’m going to have this technicolor version of his memories to refer to. I think it will help inform my experience of whatever comes next in the other series, which I can only speak vaguely about at this point. It’s pretty heady. It’s so gratifying.”
Keep scrolling to see how the Dexter: Original Sin cast compares to their previous counterparts: