Homeland

…CIA operative in the series Homeland (2011–18), which starred Claire Danes. In 2022 Abraham appeared in the second season of the anthology series The White Lotus, portraying a flirtatious grandfather on vacation with his son and grandson.

…TV series Royal Pains and Homeland. After graduating from high school in 2013, Chalamet joined the cast of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014), in which he played the younger version of Casey Affleck’s character. He subsequently enrolled in college, first attending Columbia University, New York City, and then New York University,…

…Carrie Mathison in the series Homeland. After seeing Temple Grandin, the show’s creators wrote the character with Danes in mind. Homeland debuted in 2011 and was an immediate hit. Danes earned particular praise for her nuanced portrayal of the gifted but troubled Mathison. Over the course of its eight-season run,…

…on the television drama series Homeland, portraying an aggressively determined U.S. senator who becomes director of the CIA. Letts later played an investment manager in The Big Short (2015), which relates the stories of several experts who foresaw the 2008 financial crisis.

Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His character returns home following eight years of captivity in Iraq, a virtual stranger to his family and a worry to intelligence agents who fear that he has been turned by the enemy. For his riveting performance as the complicated and duplicitous Brody, Lewis…

…Berenson in the acclaimed thriller Homeland, a role that series cocreator Alex Gansa wrote for the actor. Patinkin was surprised to get a call from his agent about the role—on his birthday, no less—because he did not expect to return to TV. The role of Berenson, a mentor to Carrie…