Courtney Ford is a Fox

It’s that time again folks. That time where I get to explain the subtle hotness of a character in a TV show that probably gets glazed over by most. I’ve done it for Jessica from True Blood and Santana from Glee, and now? Christine Hill from this season of Dexter.

Who? Well if you’ve been following this season you’ll recognize Christine as the pint-sized Miami reporter also posing as Quinn‘s latest fling. But recently we’ve learned that Christine actually plays a much more important role in this season’s arc as she has been identified as Trinity‘s daughter.

Okay, enough spoilers about the show and onto the actress that plays Christine, Courtney Ford. Unfortunately Courtney Ford was known to most simply as Brandon Routh’s wife. You know, the strapping young man who dawned the Superman suit for Brian Singer a few years ago. I guess being married to Superman basically makes you Superman’s wife and no longer and actress. According to an unreliable source by the name of Wikipedia, Courtney Ford was contemplating leaving show-biz when she landed the role on Dexter.

Are we glad she did. The spunky little actress plays Christine Hill at first as an aggressive career woman who will stop at nothing to get to her story. This includes sleeping with a cop, infiltrating the Miami PD and asking all of the difficult questions in difficult times. Originally her performance was great simply based on the fact that she made everyone but Quinn feel really uncomfortable all of the time.

But now that it has been revealed that Christine is in fact part of the bigger mystery as she is genetically linked to Trinitiy, she has switched from agressive go-getter to vulnerable daughter. The one episode after the big reveal I thought was great in terms of showing a completely different side to things. Dexter is a show that mainly focuses on the antagonist and what they have done to a victim, hardly ever do we get to see their families and how their behavior effects them. All that is changed now thanks to the performance of Courtney Ford (okay, maybe she doesn’t deserve all of the credit, but she does add a nice element to the show).

Who knows where we might see her next, and who knows if we’ll even see her again after Dexter. All I know is that I’m thankful she’s here now.