It’s all change for the cast of Homeland next season – the spy drama has signed up a host of new actors for the relocated series.

Season five of the programme, starring Claire Danes as CIA agent Carrie Matheson, is jumping forward two years from where the last series left off and will see her in Berlin working for a German private security firm during a self-imposed exile from the US intelligence agency.

That means plenty of new co-workers for Carrie – and one of them will be her boyfriend Jonas, a legal counsel for the During Foundation where she works, played by German actor Alexander Fehling.

Claire Danes
Claire Danes (Evan Agostini/Invision)

Sebastian Koch has signed up to play Carrie’s new boss Otto During, a philanthropist who owns the firm, and Laura Sutton will play Sarah Sokolovic, an American journalist working for the During Foundation.

But just because the new episodes will be set in Berlin doesn’t mean that Saul (Mandy Patinkin) will be left behind, and he even has a new employee Allison, played by Miranda Otto, who is the Berlin Chief of Station.

Showrunner Alex Carey said of Carrie: “She has a new purpose and passion and I can probably tease that that’s not going to last long. She’s going to have a relationship with German intelligence, and that’s going to be one of the more interesting relationships this season because they are an ally, but it’s a pretty rocky relationship regardless.”

Mandy Patinkin and Claire Danes
Mandy Patinkin and Claire Danes star in Homeland (Owen Hoffmann/AP)

Another of Homeland’s bosses, Meredith Stiehm, added: “She has come into her own with motherhood. She’s grown up. Instead of her being the problem child, she’s now the mother, she’s lost her father, and she’s grown into the adult of the family.

“The rockiness of being a mother happens to a lot of women, and they get through it after a couple years so Carrie is in a good place now.”