Desmond Harrington Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a laborer, landscaper and bartender prior to acting
• Has appeared in movies including Riding in Cars With Boys (2001) and Ghost Ship and We Were Soldiers (both 2002)
• Also in 2002, made his TV debut in Taken, a Steven Spielberg miniseries
• TV credits include Gossip Girl, and Dexter, for which he has been nominated for multiple Screen Actors Guild awards
• His work on Dexter as Det
• Joey Quinn finds him in the odd position of being seen as a "bad guy" despite the fact that the title character is a serial killer, played by Michael C
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