Besides Michael C. Hall playing the title character, the show's supporting cast includes Jennifer Carpenter as Dexter's adoptive sister and co-worker (and later boss) Debra, and James Remar as Dexter's adoptive father, Harry.
Covington, Georgia. Covington is a city and the county seat of Newton County, Georgia. It is located 35 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia. As of 2012, its population was 13,347.
It had orginally been incorporated as a town in 1822, as a city in 1854 and as a County Seat in 1882. Once part of the Creek Indian Nation, Covington was founded in 1822 and named in honor of General Leonard Covington, an American Revolutionary soldier. Like most Georgia communities, cotton was 'king' and the development of the cotton mill brought the first real signs of prosperity to the area.