

Carrie tells Saul about Hasan's claims, and expresses concern that Brody is the POW he was describing.

Marine sergeant, has been rescued after eight years in terrorist captivity. Ten months after her reassignment, Carrie attends an emergency staff meeting and learns that Nicholas Brody ( Damian Lewis), a U.S. Carrie's unauthorized dealings with Hasan led to an international incident, causing Estes to have her reassigned to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center in Langley, Virginia. Moments before his execution, Hasan told Carrie that an American prisoner of war was turned by al-Qaeda figure Abu Nazir ( Navid Negahban).
Īs a field operative in Iraq, Carrie infiltrated a prison to meet with an imprisoned CIA asset named Hasan Ibrahim, who claimed that he had information regarding an imminent terrorist attack in the United States. In college, Carrie was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, for which she secretly began taking clozapine supplied by her older sister, Maggie (Amy Hargreaves). Carrie developed a close working relationship with Saul, and is implied to have had a sexual relationship with CTC Director David Estes ( David Harewood), her future boss, which contributed to the breakup of his marriage. She is the second actress to win all the five main TV acting awards for her performance in the Lead Drama Actress categories.Ĭharacter biography Background and personality Ĭarrie Anne Mathison was an Arabic language student at Princeton University, where she was recruited into the CIA by veteran officer Saul Berenson ( Mandy Patinkin). Carrie's investigation of Brody is complicated by her bipolar disorder and results in an obsession with her suspect.įor her performance as Carrie, Claire Danes has received several major acting awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama. Marine sergeant named Nicholas Brody is rescued from captivity, Carrie believes that he is the POW described to her. Carrie is a CIA officer who, while on assignment in Iraq, learned from a CIA asset that an American prisoner of war had been turned by al-Qaeda.

Carrie Anne Mathison, played by actress Claire Danes, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television drama/thriller series Homeland on Showtime, created by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon.
