Actress Claire Danes has talked about her Golden Globe winning performance in her new show Homeland, saying the role of bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison was one she didn't want to refuse.

Speaking to The Telegraph Danes said: 'Carrie is unlike any character I have ever come across, in any medium, and that was just too tantalising to pass up. She is wired in a different way. It's very isolating to be bipolar. It's very hard to form new relationships, it's incredibly destructive if it's left untreated and even when it is, it's pernicious. CIA work is also very isolating and lonely. So I think Carrie just sort of accepts that she will forever be a bit of a misanthrope, or somebody who is always excluded from conventional experience and relationships. I think of her as Edward Scissorhands, too - she doesn't want to get too close to anybody.'

Homeland, which was first shown on the cable network Showtime, follows Carrie who suspects an American Marine, who is hailed as a national hero, has been turned by Al-Qaeda after being held as a prisoner of war for a number of years. Unfortunately, she is alone in believing this theory and so turns to her former mentor, Saul Berenson, to help her investigation on the Marine.

Homeland premiered in October 2011 and received universal acclaim from critics. The show also won Golden Globe for Best Drama Series and has been greenlit for a second series, on which production will begin in the Spring of 2012.