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After Dexter creators brutally murdered Julie Benz’s angelic Rita last season, the Pittsburgh-born actress reincarnated herself on ABC’ s No Ordinary Family as a scientist with superhuman speed. When Benz phoned Movieline last week, she explained that her ability to keep picking herself up from one role and transition into the next was something that she learned during her sixteen-year ice skating career, where she competed on a national level before a stress fracture forced her off the rink and in front of cameras. Twenty years after her first role in George A. Romero’s horror film, Two Evil Eyes , the actress has not only been killed off in one of the most savage television murders of all time, but she lives to tell the tale — and run a six-second mile on-screen.

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Julie Benz on No Ordinary Family and Her Gruesome Dexter Death