Patinkin Joins Danes in Showtime's 'Homeland' Series

Deadline.com reports today that Mandy Patinkin will team up with Claire Danes for a new Showtime drama series, Homeland.  According to the report: "Homeland centers on American POW Scott Brody, who returns home 10 years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Anderson (Danes), a driven CIA officer who suspects he might be plotting an attack on America. Patinkin will play the smart and politically savvy CIA Division Chief emeritus Saul Berenson who is Carrie's main champion in the intelligence upper echelon and her sounding board."

The series is being produced by 24 producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa.

Patinkin won the Tony Award for his Broadway debut in Evita and was again nominated for Sunday in the Park with George and The Wild Party. He also performed on Broadway in Falsettos, The Secret Garden, The Shadow Box, Trelawny of the ‘Wells' and his solo concerts Celebrating Sondheim, Dress Casual and Mamaloshen. For The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Patinkin appeared in Dress Casual; Hamlet; Henry IV, Part 1; The Knife; Leave It to Beaver Is Dead; Rebel Women; and The Winter's Tale. His other theatre credits include Enemy of the People, Savages, The Split, The Tempest and most recently Compulsion both at Berkeley Rep and Yale Rep and Paradise Found at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. On screen, he has been seen in Alien Nation, The Choking Man, Daniel, Dick Tracy, The Doctor, The House on Carroll Street, Impromptu, Lulu on the Bridge, Maxie, Men with Guns, The Music of Chance, Pinero, The Princess Bride, Ragtime, Squanto: Indian Warrior, True Colors and Yentl, as well as The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. His television series include "Chicago Hope" (Emmy Award), "Criminal Minds" and Showtime's "Dead Like Me." Mandy's solo albums include Mandy Patinkin, Mandy Patinkin Dress Casual and on the Nonesuch label, Experiment, Kidults, Mamaloshen, Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim and Oscar and Steve. Mandy continues to tour his solo concerts as well as An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, and this fall debuted a new concert with the opera star Nathan Gunn.

Claire Danes is best known for her role on My So Called Life.  On screen, she has appeared in Little Women, Romeo and Juliet, Terminator 3, The Family Stone, Stage Beauty, The Hours and more.  She is a recent Emmy-winner for HBO's Temple Grandid.  On stage, Danes has appearedin Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Edith and Jenny, and Pygmalion on Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival. 

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