The fourth season of the American television drama series Homeland premiered on October 5, 2014, and concluded on December 21, 2014, on Showtime, consisting of 12 episodes. The series started as a loosely based variation of the two-season run of the Israeli television series Hatufim (English: Prisoners of War) created by Gideon Raff and is developed for American television by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. The fourth season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 8, 2015, and became available for streaming on Hulu on August 1, 2016.
Cast and characters
Main
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA intelligence officer assigned to the Counterterrorism Center Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn, a CIA SAD/SOG (black ops) operative Nazanin Boniadi as Fara Sherazi, an intelligent, young, and professional Persian analyst Laila Robins as Martha Boyd, the United States ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Tracy Letts as Andrew Lockhart, the new director of the CIA Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson, Carrie's old boss and mentor, now working in the private sector
Recurring
Suraj Sharma as Aayan Ibrahim, a Pakistani medical student
Amy Hargreaves as Maggie Mathison, Carrie's sister and a psychiatrist
Sarita Choudhury as Mira Berenson, Saul's wife
Alex Lanipekun as Hank Wonham, a CIA officer at the Kabul station
Akshay Kumar as Rahim, a Pakistani medical student
Shavani Seth as Kiran, Aayan's girlfriend and fellow medical student
F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal, a retired black ops specialist
Michael O'Keefe as John Redmond, a CIA deputy station chief in Pakistan
Maury Sterling as Max Piotrowski, a freelance surveillance expert
Mark Moses as Dennis Boyd, Martha's husband and a political science teacher at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University Raza Jaffrey as Aasar Khan, the counter-terrorism chief of Pakistan's ISI Nimrat Kaur as Tasneem Qureishi, a member of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Art Malik as Bunran "Bunny" Latif, a retired Pakistani general Numan Acar as Haissam Haqqani, a high-priority target and Taliban leader
Special guest
Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, who appears in a hallucination of Carrie's.
Guest
Patrick St. Esprit as Aaron Gage
Corey Stoll as Sandy Bachman, the CIA station chief in Pakistan
Adam Godley as Jordan Harris, a CIA case officer
Emily Walker as The Landlady, with whom Quinn has a brief relationship
Nina Hoss as Astrid, Quinn's former lover who works for the German embassy
Victoria Clark as Ellen Mathison, Carrie's mother
John Getz as Joe Crocker
Episodes
Production
On October 22, 2013, Homeland was renewed for a fourth season, consisting of 12 episodes. Production and filming for the fourth season began in June 2014, shifting production to Cape Town, South Africa. Executive producers for the fourth season are Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff, Alexander Cary, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm, Avi Nir, and Ran Telem.
Casting
Nazanin Boniadi, who had a recurring role in the third season as Fara Sherazi, was promoted to series regular for the fourth season. Several actors were cast for the fourth season in June 2014, including new series regular Laila Robins, as well as Corey Stoll, Suraj Sharma, Raza Jaffrey, and Michael O'Keefe, who all have recurring roles. In July 2014, Nimrat Kaur, Mark Moses and Art Malik were additionally cast in recurring roles.