Damian Lewis News

Audiences are set to enjoy Olivier Award-winning performances if they head to Exeter Northcott Theatre next month.

SHOWTIME and Fox 21 announced today that the Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning drama series HOMELAND will begin production in Cape Town, South Africa.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HOMELAND's Damian Lewis has boarded the thriller OUR KIND OF TRAITOR, joining Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard and Naomie Harris in the cast. Susanna White directs.

Showtime and Fox 21 announced today that acclaimed actress Nazanin Boniadi, who guest-starred in season three of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning drama HOMELAND, will return as a series regular for season four. Boniadi plays Fara Sherazi, the strong-willed Muslim CIA analyst who Saul (Emmy and Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin) recruited for her expertise in international banking. Like Carrie (Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Claire Danes), Fara shares a passion for justice and ends up enlisting her relatives in Tehran to help Carrie's secret mission in the final episodes of season three. Season four finds Fara in a key role working for Carrie at the CIA. The network's No. 1 rated series with seven million weekly viewers, HOMELAND begins production on season four this summer and will premiere in the fall on Showtime.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced that it will profile BAFTA-winning director Amma Asante (A Way of Life, Belle) in April

TV Line reports that HOMELAND regulars Morena Baccarin (Jessica Brody) and Morgan Saylor (Dana Brody) will not be returning full-time for season four on Showtime.

Multi-award-winning HOMELAND star and frequent stage actor Damian Lewis has apologized to Broadway, West End and Hollywood legend Sir Ian McKellen for recent disparaging comments referring to McKellen's role as a wizard in the popular LORD OF THE RINGS films and general career trajectory.

Sasha Alexander, star of the TNT original drama 'Rizzoli & Isles,' and Clark Gregg, star of the ABC series 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' revealed the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® nominations this morning, Wednesday, Dec. 11 at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood at 8:50 a.m. ET.

In an October 2013 interview with The Guardian, HOMELAND actor Damian Lewis discussed his beginnings at the Royal Shakespeare Company and his eventual desire to leave the world of stage acting. In the course of his response, Lewis said he worried he could become like, 'one of these slightly over-the-top, fruity actors who would have an illustrious career on stage, but wouldn't start getting any kind of film work until I was 50 and then start playing wizards.' Sound familiar?

On the Seaon Finale of Showtime's HOMELAND titled "The Star", security forces are closing in on Carrie and Brody, and Brody struggling to find redemption. Meanwhile, Saul plans a last-ditch rescue mission.

On the next episode of Showtime's HOMELAND titled "Big Man In Tehran" - Brody's loyalty to the mission wavers when he meets a ghost from his past.

Sir Howard Panter, the co-founder, Joint CEO and Creative Director of the Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) attended the investiture ceremony hosted by The Queen at Windsor Castle last Friday (22 November) where he received a Knighthood for Services to Theatre.

Sir Howard Panter, the co-founder, Joint CEO and Creative Director of the Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd (ATG) attended the investiture ceremony hosted by The Queen at Windsor Castle last Friday (22 November) where he received a Knighthood for Services to Theatre.

On the next episode of Showtime's HOMELAND titled "Good Night", Brody embarks on a mission with high stakes; Quinn makes a discovery about Carrie; Fara must rejoin the team.

Jonathan Pryce has assembled a starry team of actors to participate in this year's Friendship Works gala at the Cafe de Paris tonight, November 24.

The 59th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards were held tonight in London, with Helen Mirren taking home the 'Best Actress' prize for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II inPeter Morgan's THE AUDIENCE. The production also took home the 'Best Design' award. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the special event!

On the next episode of Showtime's HOMELAND titled "Horse and Wagon", Carrie and Brody reunite under difficult circumstances; Saul gets a win from an unlikely source; Dana struggles with her new life.

The Daily Mail writes that Jonathan Pryce has assembled a starry team of actors to participate in this year's Friendship Works gala at the Cafe de Paris on November 24.

On the next episode of Showtime's HOMELAND titled 'A Red Wheelbarrow', Carrie and Quinn pursue a key suspect in the Langley bombing, and Saul deals with a political backlash.

The shortlist for the annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards has been announced. Winners revealed at a ceremony presented by Damian Lewis at the Savoy Hotel on November 17, when the recipients of six special awards will also be revealed.