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Dexter is a Latin adjective meaning "on the right hand side, skillful, fortunate, favourable, proper, fitting".

Dexter may also refer to:

• Dexter in dexter and sinister, a heraldry term referring to the right of the bearer of the arms, and to the left by the viewer's eyes
• Dexter cattle, a breed of cattle
• Dexter School, a private boys' school in Brookline, Massachusetts
• Dexter-Russell, the largest U.S. manufacturer of professional cutlery
• Dexter (robot), a dynamically balancing bipedal humanoid robot research project by Anybots

People[link]

Surname

• Al Dexter (1905–1984), American country musician and songwriter
• Brad Dexter (1917–2002), Serbian-American actor
• Caroline Dexter (1819–1884), English-Australian writer and feminist
• Charles O. Dexter, American rhododendron hybridizer
• Colin Dexter, OBE (born 1930), English crime writer
• Darrell Dexter, Canadian politician
• Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor
• Felix Dexter, English actor, comedian, and writer
• Gregory Dexter, Baptist minister and colonial president of the colony of Rhode Island (Providence and Warwick only)
• Henry Martyn Dexter (1821–1890), American clergyman and author
• James Dexter, American professional football player
• Neil Dexter (born 1984), South African-born English cricketer
• Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Simon Newton Dexter (1785–1862), New York merchant and politician
• Ted Dexter, Sussex and English test cricketer

Given name

• Dexter (singer) (born 1973), Brazilian rapper
• Dexter Blackstock (born 1986), English football player
• Dexter Dalwood (born 1960), artist based in London
• Dexter M. Ferry (1833–1907), American businessman from Michigan
• Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (1873–1959), American politician from Michigan
• Dexter Fletcher (born 1966), British actor
• Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), jazz tenor saxophonist
• Dexter Holland (born 1965), lead singer of The Offspring
• Dexter Horton (1825–1904), founder of the first bank in Seattle
• Dexter Vines, American comic book artist and inker
• Dexter Freebish, Texas rock band

Fiction[link]

• Dexter's Laboratory, an American animated series that aired from 1996 to 2003
• Dexter Morgan, a fictional serial killer and blood splatter analyst created by writer Jeff Lindsay
  • Dexter (TV series) (2006–present), an American television drama series
    • "Dexter" (episode), the pilot and first episode
• Ramone "Ray" Dexter, one half of gunshark duo Sinister Dexter featured in the British comics anthology 2000 AD
• Dexter, young version of the protagonist in the Space Ace video game
• Dexter, now known as Dex-Starr, a member of the Red Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe
• Dexter, the nickname for the Pokédex in the early seasons of Pokémon

Locations[link]

United States

• Dexter, Georgia
• Dexter, Iowa
• Dexter, Kansas
• Dexter, Maine
• Dexter, Michigan
• Dexter, Minnesota
• Dexter, Missouri
• Dexter, New Mexico
• Dexter, New York
• Dexter City, Ohio
• Dexter, Oregon
• Dexter, Wisconsin, a town
• Dexter (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Dexter Township, Michigan
• Dexter Township, Minnesota

Canada

• Dexter, Ontario, Canada

Ships[link]

• USRC Dexter, the name of more than one ship of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• USCGC Dexter, the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast Guard

See also[link]

• Dextral, a scientific term
• Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, a component of the International Space Station
• Dextrous (disambiguation)
• Dexterity
• Dextrose

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Richard Roeper
Roeper at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(1959-10-17) October 17, 1959 (age 52) Chicago, Illinois
Occupation	Film critic, journalist
Nationality	American
Subjects	Film
www.richardroeper.com

Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959)^[1] is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM.^[2] He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000–2008, as the late Gene Siskel's replacement.

Personal Life[link]

Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in south suburban Dolton, Illinois. He attended Thornridge High School and graduated from Illinois State University in 1982. He has described himself as a Catholic, although "not always first in line for Sunday Mass".^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Roeper began working as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1987. The topics of his columns range from politics to media to entertainment. In more recent years, he has been widely considered one of the finest newspaper writers in Chicago, just a notch below the city's golden-inked "Mount Rushmore" of John Kass (Tribune), Dave Hoekstra (Sun-Times), Jay Mariotti (Sun-Times) and Roger Ebert (Sun-Times).

He has also written seven books, on topics from movies to urban legends to conspiracy theories to the Chicago White Sox. In 2009 Roeper appeared on Howard Stern's show and said he had written a book on gambling, entitled Bet the House,^[3] which was released in the first quarter of 2010.

Roeper also was a radio host on WLS AM 890 in Chicago. He also hosted shows on WLUP-FM, WLS-FM and WMVP-AM in Chicago. He won three Emmy awards for his news commentaries on Fox in the 1990s, and was the film critic for CBS in Chicago for three years in the early 2000s. He won the National Headliner Award as the top newspaper columnist in the country in 1992, and has been voted best columnist in Illinois by the Associated Press on numerous occasions.

His columns have been syndicated by the New York Times to publications around the world. Roeper has written for a number of magazines, including Esquire, Spy, TV Guide, Playboy, Maxim and Entertainment Weekly. He was once named as one of People magazine's most eligible bachelors.^{[citation needed]}

Roeper has been a frequent guest on the Tonight Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, The O'Reilly Factor and countless other national programs. He is currently the host of Starz Inside, a monthly documentary series airing on the Starz network since the fall of 2007. Roeper appeared on the first episode of the fifth season of Entourage reviewing the fake movie Medellin starring fictional movie star Vincent Chase. In April 2008, Roeper was the central figure on an episode of Top Chef, in which the contestants served up movie themed dishes to Roeper and his friends, including Aisha Tyler.

In February 2009, Roeper launched his own web site, [1], which features movie reviews, blog entries about politics, sports and movies, photos and Twitter entries. For most of the year Roeper was posting print reviews and blog entries. In December 2009, he launched a video section, with on-camera reviews of movies. The video segments are produced in partnership with the Starz premium cable channel. Roeper announced the reviews will appear first on his site, then on the Starz channel.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2009, it was reported^{[by whom?]} that Roeper had signed a "six-figure" deal with ReelzChannel to be a regular contributor. He will continue to review movies online for his website and for Starz.

As of Monday, April 12, 2010, he is now the co-host of The Roe Conn Show on Chicago's WLS-AM 890 radio station from 2-6pm CST.

Work as a film critic[link]

After Gene Siskel of Siskel & Ebert died on Saturday, February 20, 1999, Roger Ebert did the show with nearly 30 co-hosts. After 10 guest stints, Roeper was offered the opportunity to permanently co-host the popular film review show with Ebert. The series was renamed Ebert & Roeper at the Movies in 2000, and shortened to Ebert & Roeper in 2002.

Beginning in August 2006, while his co-host Roger Ebert was recovering from cancer surgery, Roeper was joined by guest critics, including Clerks director Kevin Smith and The Tonight Show host Jay Leno. On Sunday, July 20, 2008, Roeper announced he was leaving the show in mid-August and would return with a new show later in the year.^[4] He continues to write his general interest column, and also contributes reviews to the Sun-Times and to newspapers across the country.

Bibliography[link]

• He Rents, She Rents: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Women's Films and Guy Movies, with Laurie Viera (1999)
• Hollywood Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Delightfully Persistent Myths of Films, Television, and Music (2001)
• Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Deliciously Entertaining Myths That Are Absolutely, Positively, 100% Not True (2001)
• Ten Sure Signs a Movie Character is Doomed, and Other Surprising Movie Lists (2003)
• Schlock Value: Hollywood At Its Worst (2005)
• Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz (2006)
• Debunked!: Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century (2008)
• Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance (2010)^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Biography from TV Tome
• Richard Roeper at the Internet Movie Database

Yvonne Strahovski
Yvonne Strahovski at the Toronto International Film Festival 2011.
Born	Yvonne Strzechowski (1982-07-30) 30 July 1982 (age 29) Sydney, Australia
Residence	Los Angeles
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present

Yvonne Strahovski (born Yvonne Strzechowski; 30 July 1982) is an Australian actress. Born in Australia to Polish immigrant parents, Strahovski speaks Polish and English. After graduating from the University of Western Sydney, she featured in a number of Australian television shows. She then starred as Sarah Walker in the American television series Chuck^[1], a role of which she is widely known for. She is also noted as the voice of Miranda Lawson in the Mass Effect trilogy.

Early life[link]

Strahovski was born in Campbelltown, a suburb of Sydney, as Yvonne Strzechowski to Peter and Bozena Strzechowski.^[2] Her parents had emigrated from Warsaw, Poland. She adopted the more phonetic spelling of Strahovski as her stage name at Chuck, which was at producer Josh Schwartz's behest for the sake of easier pronunciation. Strahovski's father is an electronic engineer, and her mother works as a lab technician.^[3] Strahovski started acting when she played Viola in a school production of Twelfth Night.^[4]

She spent her high school years attending Santa Sabina College, Strathfield. She graduated from University of Western Sydney's Theatre Nepean in 2003.^[5]

Career[link]

Strahovski started her career in Australia appearing in film and TV roles, including a turn on satirical show Double the Fist and a part as Freya Lewis in the Australian drama series headLand. She has also appeared in Channel Nine's Sea Patrol.

She sent in her audition tape for the show Chuck while in the United States auditioning for roles in other shows, namely NBC's 2007 series Bionic Woman.^[6] She sent in an audition tape while waiting to hear from the other two jobs. She was contacted by the producers of Chuck the next day to come in to "run lines" with Zachary Levi. The producers called her back a week later letting her know she had been cast as Sarah Walker. Six months later, she moved to the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Strahovski speaks fluent Polish and employed it in a brief exchange with a colleague in the Chuck episode "Chuck Versus the Wookiee" and again in the episodes "Chuck Versus the Three Words" and "Chuck Versus the Honeymooners". Although she portrays an American in the series, she briefly spoke in a "Hollywood" Australian accent in the episode "Chuck Versus the Ex" .

Strahovski appears in Mass Effect Galaxy, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 as the voice of Miranda Lawson. Strahovski had her face scanned and animated so she could portray Lawson in Mass Effect 2. Strahovski voices Aya Brea in the English version of the Parasite Eve spinoff, The 3rd Birthday, which was released on March 2011 for the PlayStation Portable. She also appeared in a CollegeHumor sketch in April 2011, parodying the music styles of Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and Lady Gaga.^[7]

Strahovski appeared in the 2011 film Killer Elite, alongside Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro.^[8] In May 2011, she joined the comedy My Mother's Curse, opposite Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand.^[9]

In 2010, Strahovski received the Teen Choice Award for Choice Action TV Actress for Chuck, as well as a nomination for Spike Video Game Awards for Best Performance by a Human Female for Mass Effect 2. In 2011, Strahovski was nominated again for the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Action TV Actress. In 2011, Cosmopolitan Magazine (Australia) awarded Strahovski the Fun Fearless Female of the Year along with Favorite TV Actress.

In November 2011, she was cast as the female lead in I, Frankenstein.^[10] In March 2012, she was featured in a new SoBe Life commercial. And in May 2012, Strahovski ranked #35 in Maxim Hot 100 2012.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Yvonne Strahovski

• Yvonne Strahovski at the Internet Movie Database
• Yvonne Strahovski on Twitter
• Yvonne Strahovski at AllRovi
• Yvonne Strahovski at TV Guide
• Bio at the official NBC site for Chuck
• TVGuide.com interview

Jennifer Carpenter
Carpenter at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2009
Born	Jennifer Leann Carpenter (1979-12-07) December 7, 1979 (age 32) Louisville, Kentucky
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Notable work(s)	Debra Morgan on Dexter
Spouse	Michael C. Hall (m. 2008–2011) «start: (2008)–end+1: (2012)»"Marriage: Michael C. Hall to Jennifer Carpenter" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Jennifer_Carpenter)
Awards	Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television 2009 Dexter

Jennifer Leann Carpenter (born December 7, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Debra Morgan on the Showtime drama series Dexter, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2009.

Early life and education[link]

Carpenter was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Catherine (née Mitchell) and Robert Carpenter.^[1] She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. She trained at the Walden Theatre Conservatory program,^[2] and later at New York City's Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 31: 1998–2002).^[3] Before graduation, she was cast in the 2002 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.^[4]

Career[link]

Carpenter first attracted critical attention for her performance in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.^{[citation needed]} She took home the 2006 MTV Movie Award for 'Best Frightened Performance', and also received a 'Hollywood Life Breakthrough Award'. She was also named 'Breakout Performer' at the 2006 Scream Awards.

Carpenter currently plays the role of Debra Morgan in the Showtime crime drama television series Dexter which premiered October 1, 2006. Her portrayal of the title character's sister has impressed some critics, with Australian journalist Jack Marx describing her portrayal of "cool and clumsy" Debra as "so perfect that many viewers appear to have mistaken the character's flaws for the actor's."^[5]

In 2011, she starred in the Off-Broadway play Gruesome Playground Injuries at Second Stage Theatre and made a guest appearance on the CBS drama The Good Wife.

On Saturday, March 17, 2012, she made an appearance on BBC cooking show, Saturday Kitchen Live.

Personal life[link]

In 2007, she began dating her Dexter co-star Michael C. Hall.^[6] They eloped on New Year's Eve, 2008 in California, and publicly appeared together for the first time as a married couple at the 66th Golden Globe Awards in January 2009.^[6] In December 2010, Hall and Carpenter released a statement announcing that they had filed for divorce after having been separated "for some time".^[7] The divorce was finalized in December 2011.^[8]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jennifer Carpenter

• Jennifer Carpenter at the Internet Movie Database