It’s Showtime again for Damian Lewis.The Emmy-winning Homeland actor and Emmy winner/Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti (John Adams) have landed leading roles on the pay cabler’s upcoming drama Billions.
Lewis will play ambitious hedge-fund king Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, who is set to go head-to-head with Giamatti’s U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes.
Malin Akerman has been cast on the buzzy drama project as Lara Axelrod, a former nurse from humble beginnings who is now married to billionaire Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (played by Homeland vet Lewis).