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Roger Howarth is heading to Genoa City.
The longtime soap actor, 56, is joining The Young and the Restless in a yet-to-be-announced role for a major storyline arc this fall, PEOPLE confirmed.
Howarth will begin taping in mid-September, with his debut coming later this year.
Deadline was the first to report the news.
Howarth shared the news on his Instagram in celebration.
The actor shared a selfie of himself showing a “Y” and “R” in American Sign Language on Thursday, Aug. 28.
“Excited and appreciative… I’m a lucky guy…,” he captioned the post.
Howarth’s soap roots run deep, reaching all the way back to the early ’90s.
After appearing on Loving and Guiding Light in 1992, the actor booked his first major role on One Life to Live, playing Todd Manning.
He would go on to play this part on and off in years-long chunks until 2013, and earned a Daytime Emmy in the now-defunct Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in a Drama Series category in 1994.
During one of his larger breaks from One Life to Live, he starred on As the World Turns from 2003 to 2010 in the Emmy-nominated role of Paul Ryan.
Rounding out his soap experience, Howarth played several roles on General Hospital from 2012 to 2023. He first played Todd Manning, then Franco Baldwin and finally he played Austin Gatlin-Holt.
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Howart also has roles outside of the soap world.
He appeared in a 1996 episode of Diagnosis: Murder and had a small role in the sci-fi series, Prey in 1998.
Howarth played Professor Gregory Hetson on Dawson’s Creek from 2002 to 2003, during the sixth season of the teen drama.
Then, in 2015, he had a small arc on The Flash as Mason Bridge in the superhero series’ first season.
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The Young and the Restless airs weekdays on CBS (check local listings).
