Mirando Otto Joins ‘Homeland’ Season Five

Miranda Otto Joins Homeland Season 4
Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson and Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in ‘Homeland’ Season 4, Episode 12 (Photo: David Bloomer / SHOWTIME)

Miranda Otto, Sebastian Koch, Alexander Fehling, and Sarah Sokolovic have signed on as Homeland series regulars on the critically acclaimed drama’s fifth season. The four new cast members will start work on Showtime’s Homeland this month in Berlin and, according to the network, it will be the first series completely shot in Germany.

Returning Homeland cast members include Claire Danes, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, and Mandy Patinkin. Along with announcing the new regulars on the series, Showtime released brief character descriptions:

– OTTO DÜRING (Sebastian Koch), a German philanthropist and Carrie’s (Danes) boss.

– ALLISON CARR (Miranda Otto), the current Berlin Chief of Station, working directly under Saul Berenson (Patinkin).

– LAURA SUTTON (Sarah Sokolovic), an American journalist in Berlin who works for the Düring Foundation.

– JONAS HAPPICH (Alexander Fehling), legal counsel for the Düring Foundation and Carrie’s boyfriend.

The Season Five Plot:

Season five will pick up two years after Carrie Mathison’s (Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief. Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the “war on terror,” Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm.