What Jennifer Carpenter Has Been Doing Since Dexter

In 2006, Jennifer Carpenter was an up-and-coming actress whose luck changed virtually overnight when she booked the second lead on Showtime's breakout serial killer drama Dexter. Carpenter frequently stole the spotlight from star Michael C. Hall with her impassioned turn as Dexter's foster sister Debra, a homicide detective whose caseload often overlapped with her duplicitous brother's own crimes.

It's been almost seven years since Dexter's divisive finale episode aired, and fans are still wondering if Carpenter's Debra got the send-off she deserved. As for Carpenter herself, she's maintained a lower profile recently, but she's more than kept herself busy since leaving Debra and Dexter behind.

Like so many actors in and around Hollywood over the past decade or so, Jennifer Carpenter eventually found herself with a ticket to ride the Marvel money train, but it wasn't quite of the first-class nature. She only got to contribute her voice to the ever-expanding Marvel-verse through the animated project Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher. In the 2014 anime film, it's Carpenter's golden pipes - and not Scarlett Johansson's - you hear as tough-as-nails Natasha Romanoff.

Marvel's Black Widow isn't the only big-time comic book character Jennifer Carpenter has voiced since her days on Dexter. Her second turn in the animated comic book movie world found her voicing Selina Kyle, best known as Gotham City's Catwoman, in Warner Bros. and DC Comics' lavish, 19th-century reimagining of the Dark Knight saga, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Released to largely positive reviews in 2018, Gotham by Gaslight was adapted from the 1989 graphic novel of the same name, itself the first official offering from DC's "Elseworlds" imprint. Both the book and the film feature Bruce Wayne defending the streets of a gloriously steam-punky Gotham as a Victorian-era Batman, eventually facing off against the infamous killer Jack the Ripper.

But Carpenter hasn't shied away from performing in front of the camera as well. Since leaving Dexter behind, the actress has sought out similar success on the small screen. That search ultimately led the actress to the hyper-competitive realm of network television, where she's delivered strong work in largely forgettable dramas.

The first of Carpenter's post-Dexter TV roles came on the short-lived dramedy Limitless, which was based on the Bradley Cooper-starring movie of the same name. That flick found Cooper tripping the life fantastic after ingesting a wonder drug that enabled him to utilize the full potential of his brain. The television adaptation, which was produced by Cooper and Joker director Todd Phillips, followed a similar set up. This time, however, the "gifted" man is out to make the world a safer place, and Carpenter portrays the FBI Agent tasked with helping focus the man's energies on solving crimes. Keep watching the video to see what Jennifer Carpenter has been doing since Dexter!

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