[TV] Damian Lewis Joins The Cast Of Showtime’s Homeland
Posted by Larry Csonka on 01.04.2011
Details on the new show inside…
- Damian Lewis (Band of brothers) has joined the cast of the new Showtime one hour drama Homeland. Lewis will play U.S. Marine Sergeant Scott Brody, a POW who miraculously returns home after nearly a decade of captivity in Iraq and joins Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Diego Klattenhoff (Men in Trees) and Laura Fraser (A Knight's Tale) as the main cast. The show will begin production in January of 2011, here is a brief synopsis of the show…
Homeland centers on an American soldier (Lewis) taken prisoner during the Iraq invasion in 2003. Left for dead, he miraculously returns to the U.S. after years in captivity. Carrie Anderson (Danes), a driven CIA officer battling her own psychological demons, becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to his re-capture was a setup and that this national hero may be connected to an Al Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. Mandy Patinkin plays Saul, a veteran CIA Division Chief who is Carrie's boss and mentor.
