Allison Carr

Allison Carr is the CIA's station chief in Islamabad, a seasoned intelligence officer who has spent years cultivating sources and relationships in a country where American operatives are barely tolerated. She's brisk, capable, and territorial about her turf, initially wary of Carrie Mathison's arrival and the disruption it threatens to bring.

Miranda Otto plays competence as a kind of armor, all clipped efficiency and controlled warmth, which makes Allison feel like someone who has survived a brutal profession by never showing more than she has to. The show uses that calm surface as tension in itself—you're always watching for what it's hiding.