Emmy® Award winner Claire Danes (Temple Grandin) and British actor Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers) will star in HOMELAND, a new one-hour drama pilot from the Emmy® Award winning executive producers of 24, according to a January 4, 2011 press release from Showtime. A production of FOX 21, the series is loosely based on Gideon Raff’s Israeli television series “Prisoners of War.”
Homeland premieres on Showtime fall 2011 - video preview
Damian Lewis will play U.S. Marine Sergean Scott Brody, a POW who was missing in Iraq for nearly a decade who miraculously returns home. Carrie Anderson (Claire Danes) is a driving CIA officer is suspicious of Brody and becomes convinced that the national hero may to connected to an Al Qaeda plot. Mandy Patinkin plays Saul, a CIA division chief who is Carrie's boss and mentor. Mandy Patinkin joins Claire Danes on Homeland
Laura Fraser (A Knight's Tale) has been cast in the role of Jessica, Brody's intrepid and complicated wife. Diego Klattenhoff (Men in Trees) will play Mike Faber, a Marine colonel and Brody's best friend who has become close with Jessica over the years that he has been MIA. HOMELAND begins production in January 2011 and will be executive produced by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, who recently served as executive producers on the long-running series 24.
Claire Danes won critical acclaim for her role this past year in the HBO biopic “Temple Grandin” for which she won an Emmy® Award. Prior to that, television audiences remember Danes in her Golden Globe®-winning role in the hit series “My So-Called Life.” Danes’ many film roles include “The Hours,” “Me and Orson Welles,” “Stardust,” and “Evening.” Temple Grandin stars Claire Danes on HBO
Lewis is most well-known for his Golden Globe®-nominated performance as the American World War II hero, Major Richard Winters, in the Emmy®-winning mini-series Band of Brothers, and for his portrayal of Soames Forsyte in the acclaimed production of The Forsyte Saga, Series I and I. Most recently, he was nominated for a Gotham Award for his work as the title character in Keane, and also starred in the television seriesLife for NBC.
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