Dexter Hartman
| Dexter Hartman | |||||||||||||||
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| EastEnders character | |||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Khali Best | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2013–2015 | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 4565 7 January 2013 | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | Episode 4990 2 January 2015 | ||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Lorraine Newman | ||||||||||||||
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Dexter Hartman is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Khali Best. His debut was on 7 January 2013. Dexter is the grandson of Cora Cross (Ann Mitchell) and son of her illegitimate daughter, Ava Hartman (Clare Perkins). Dexter's storylines include his feuds with Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick) and Lola Pearce (Danielle Harold), his job as a mechanic under Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and his struggle to accept his drunk father, Sam James (Cornell S John).
In 2014, Best was suspended from the show for three months by executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins after attacking a taxi driver in London. In November 2014, it was confirmed that Dexter would be written out of EastEnders in early 2015, and he made his final appearance on 2 January 2015.