Washington DC, April 2 -- Actor Brian Cox will be joining the second season of "Dexter: Resurrection", reported Variety. He will star as Dom Framt , aka The New York Ripper.

The character was originally introduced in Season 1, though he was not seen onscreen. He is described as "a serial killer who terrorized the City years ago. Though no longer active as a killer, he's found a new way to live into his infamy by continuing to taunt the survivors of his long-ago murder spree," reported Variety.

Dexter (Michael C. Hall), and later Det. Claudette Wallace (Kadia Saraf), discovered a file on Framt in the vault of Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage) in Season 1, setting up what will be a major role in Season 2.

This will not be Cox's first go at pl...