Actress Claire Danes arrives at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, California February 26, 2012. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Claire Danes, star of the hit TV thriller “Homeland,” is expecting her first child with her husband, actor Hugh Dancy, People magazine reported on Wednesday, citing a representative for the actress.

Danes, who won a Golden Globe prize in January for her portrayal of Carrie Mathison, Homeland’s intuitive and overwrought CIA officer in the popular U.S. show, married Dancy, the star of “Hannibal”, in 2009.