Homeland Season 8: Hugh Dancy joins cast of Showtime show for its final season
LOS ANGELES: Emmy-nominated actor Hugh Dancy ('Hannibal') will guest star in a multi-episode arc on the award-winning drama series 'Homeland', starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Danes and Emmy and Tony winner Mandy Patinkin. Dancy will recur as John Zabel, a savvy Washington consultant who joins the White House as a new foreign-policy advisor to the President and a formidable opponent to Saul Berenson (Patinkin). The series is currently in production on its eighth and final season and will premiere later this year.
The final season of 'Homeland' finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul, now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Emmy and Golden Globe winner Beau Bridges). The top priority of Warner’s young administration is an end to the “forever war” in Afghanistan, and Saul has been dispatched to engage the Taliban in peace negotiations. But Kabul teems with warlords and mercenaries, zealots and spies – and Saul needs the relationships and expertise that only his protégé can provide. Against medical advice, Saul asks Carrie to walk with him into the lion’s den – one last time.