Edward James Olmos, Colin Hanks, Mos Def to Join Showtime’s Dexter

Tony Award nominee Edward James Olmos will join Broadway veterans Mos Def and Colin Hanks on the sixth season of Showtime’s Emmy Award-winning series Dexter, according to EW.com.

Olmos, who appeared in the Broadway play Zoot Suit, will play a professor of religious studies. As previously reported, Mos Def will be playing a hardened ex-con whose claim to have found religion is subject to doubt, and Hanks will play Travis, a highly intelligent young expert on ancient artifacts who gets linked to a series of grisly murders in Miami.

Stage veteran Michael C. Hall plays the title character on the show, about a complicated and conflicted blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department who moonlights as a serial killer. The cast also features Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas, and James Remar.