House of Cards actress Elizabeth Marvel has joined the cast of Homeland Season 6, and she’ll be taking on one of the season’s most important new roles. Although Marvel’s House of Cards character, Heather Dunbar, was unsuccessful in her efforts to become president, her Homeland character won’t have that same problem, as she’ll be playing the first-ever female president during the show’s upcoming sixth season.
Per TVLine, Marvel’s character is named Elizabeth Keane, and she is a “former junior Senator from New York. She’s bright, charming, lively, and, if the need arises, blunt.” Keane will most definitely factor into Homeland Season 6 in a big way, as the show brings the action back to the United States for the first time in two seasons, with events taking place between the time the new, female president is elected and when she officially takes office.
“The whole season takes place between Election Day in November and the inauguration of a new president in January, during this strange and interregnum where a very fragile transfer of power takes place between the outgoing president and the incoming president-elect,” Homeland showrunner Alex Gansa told EW.com in May. “There is this strange period in America where there are 72 days when it’s not exactly clear who’s in charge, and there is a new president that needs to be educated on what it means to be president. That is a very complex transfer of power filled with all kinds of anxiety and different competing interests – How do I get the ear of the new president? How does the new president elect deal with the president that’s going out? – and it’s a dangerous time in our democracy.”
In addition to her work in House of Cards, Marvel’s TV credits include Person of Interest, Fargo, and Law & Order: SVU.
Homeland Season 6 is slated to kick off this January on Showtime.
Homeland fans, what do you think of the show’s new president? Are you excited to see Marvel take on the role of Elizabeth Keane? Comment below and let us know.
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