--- description: Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti will star in the pilot for the new Showtime series "Billions," Variety reported Friday. title: Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti Showtime: Actors To Star in 'Billions' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti to Headline Showtime's _Billions_  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Oct 24, 2014 8:05 PM CUT  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Oct 24, 2014 8:05 PM CUT Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti will star in the pilot for the new Showtime series “Billions,” [_Variety_](http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/damian-lewis-paul-giamatti-to-star-in-showtimes-billions-1201338548/ "undefined")reported Friday. Lewis, who spent three seasons on the Showtime series _Homeland_, a role for which he won an Emmy in 2013, will play a New York hedge fund manager, and Giamatti will play his rival in the U.S. Attorney’s Office. _Divergent_ director Neil Burger will direct and _Ocean’s Thirteen_ screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien have teamed up with New York _Times_ business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin to write. The show is set to begin production early next year. \[[_Variety_](http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/damian-lewis-paul-giamatti-to-star-in-showtimes-billions-1201338548/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3537510/damian-lewis-paul-giamatti-billions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3537510/damian-lewis-paul-giamatti-billions/"},"headline":"Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti to Headline Showtime's Billions","datePublished":"2014-10-24T20:05:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:00:30.167Z","description":"The show is set to begin production early next year","url":"https://time.com/3537510/damian-lewis-paul-giamatti-billions/","keywords":["Television","Showtime","Homeland"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3537510/damian-lewis-paul-giamatti-billions/","name":"Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti to Headline Showtime's Billions"}}]}] ```