Neil Patrick Harris to guest star in Dexter: Resurrection

Emmy and Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris has been cast in Dexter: Resurrection in the guest role of Lowell. Production on the sequel to Dexter and Dexter: New Blood began in January in New York and will premiere this summer on Paramount+ with Showtime. Showrunner and executive producer Clyde Phillips has assembled a cast led by Michael C. Hall as the titular serial killer Dexter Morgan.



Harris (pictured) joins previously announced returning cast members David Zayas as Detective Angel Batista, Jack Alcott as Dexter's son Harrison Morgan and James Remar as Dexter's father Harry Morgan.

New to the cast are Uma Thurman as Charley, Peter Dinklage as Leon Prater, Krysten Ritter as Mia Lapierre, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as Blessing Kamara, Kadia Saraf as Detective Claudette Wallace, Dominic Fumusa as Detective Melvin Oliva, and Emilia Suárez as Elsa Rivera.

Harris is best known for his role as Barney Simon on the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother, which ran for nine seasons. He played Count Olaf on the Netflix comedy series A Series of Unfortunate Events and Michael Lawson on the Netflix romantic comedy series Uncoupled.

Dexter: Original Sin, the franchise’s first prequel series, recently wrapped its first season of ten episodes and is currently available to stream. Led by Patrick Gibson, the character plays young, up-and-coming serial killer Dexter Morgan, who joins his father Harry Morgan (Christian Slater) for an internship at Miami Metro. Together, they navigate the murky waters of good versus evil while keeping a secret from Debra Morgan (Molly Brown), Dexter's sister who is desperate for attention and affection from her family.

The series premiered in December and became the network's most-streamed global original series in a decade. The season finale aired in February and scored 2.68 million viewers worldwide, the most-streamed episode of the season, according to Showtime.