Jennifer Carpenter
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"Jennifer Leann Carpenter" is an American actress best known for playing Debra Morgan on the Showtime (TV channel)/Showtime drama series Dexter (TV series)/Dexter (2006–2013), for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2009.

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They had made a dummy and would put it in the position they needed. I would look at it and see how well I could approximate it. They never once used the dummy.

I went out with the mayor. I'm adult, and that was my decision.

It's just providing us a chance to check people out so that we can make sure we don't have someone here that could pose a problem.

I prepared for this role like an athlete would, so that I could do anything, physically or mentally that Scott wanted me to do, and be able to go wherever he tried to take me.

[Meanwhile, newcomer Carpenter had to twist her body in several strange positions during the demonic possession scenes. A fake Carpenter was created so they could twist the doll in various poses.] They had made a dummy and would put it in the position they needed, ... I would look at it and see how well I could approximate it. They never once used the dummy.

I read several books on possession and exorcism and did some study on epilepsy. I tried to look at everything from a birds eye perspective and not let my own point of view get in the way.