Roger Howarth joins The Young and the Restless this fall

Roger Howarth, a veteran daytime actor, is joining the cast of The Young and the Restless this fall, the show announced via its Instagram account. The 56 year old actor is set to begin taping in mid September and will appear on the CBS soap sometime later this year in a role being kept under wraps.

Industry reports first flagged the casting and the program confirmed the news without disclosing character details or storyline specifics. Howarth himself teased the move on Instagram with a mirror selfie showing the letters Y and R and the caption, "Excited and appreciative. I'm a lucky guy," signaling his return to the CBS daytime fold.

Howarth is a familiar face to soap audiences after three decades in daytime television. He first broke through in the early 1990s and won a Daytime Emmy in 1994 for his work on One Life to Live, where he portrayed Todd Manning on and off from the early 1990s through 2013. He also played Paul Ryan on As the World Turns from 2001 to 2010, a stint that earned multiple Emmy nominations. From 2012 until his 2023 exit, Howarth appeared in several roles on General Hospital, including Todd Manning, Franco Baldwin and Dr. Austin Gatlin Holt. His most recent...