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name: "Alexander Cary"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 February 1963"
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average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T20:19:23.275744+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alexander Cary

Producer. Born 1 February 1963 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 February 1963, London, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Lucius Alexander Plantagenet Cary, Alex Cary
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4718543, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142615/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223955

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Homeland*](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md) (78)

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## Biography

Alexander Cary is a British television writer and producer. Born Lucius Alexander Plantagenet Cary on 1 February 1963 in London, he is also known as Alex Cary and holds the courtesy title Master of Falkland. He trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an officer in the Scots Guards, including deployments to Northern Ireland and the Gulf War, before moving to the United States to pursue screenwriting.

Cary contributed as a writer and executive producer on the series *Homeland* (2011–2014), for which he received shared credit on the 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. His other credits include writing and producing on *Lie to Me* (2009–2011), creating and writing the series *Taken* (2017) and the miniseries *A Spy Among Friends* (2022). He has been married to Jennifer Marsala since 2013 and was previously married to Linda Purl.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, standard.co.uk, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Homeland* (2011), Fi1m 78, Teleplay, Co-Executive Producer, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)

## Also known for

- *A Spy Among Friends* (2022), Writer

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