Young and Restless Casting Shocker: Soap Vet Roger Howarth Joins Show in Mystery Role!
More huge casting news is coming out of Young and Restless! Hot on the heels of the announcement that Daytime Emmy-winner Tamara Braun (ex-Carly, General Hospital; ex-Ava, Days of our Lives et al) is joining the show this fall comes word that another Daytime Emmy-winning soap superstar, Roger Howarth, is set to make his Genoa City debut when autumn rolls around. “Excited and appreciative… I’m a lucky guy…,” the actor wrote on Instagram of the news, which was broken by Deadline.
The Road to Genoa City
Howarth wrapped his last soap run, playing doomed Dr. Austin Gatlin-Holt on GH, in September 2023, when the character was gunned down in Pautuck. Austin was his third role on the show, after playing Todd Manning from 2012-13 and Franco Baldwin from 2013-2020.
The actor came to GH with two other major soap roles under his belt. In 1992, he burst onto the One Life to Live scene as Todd, winning the 1994 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor for his portrayal of the ring leader of Marty Saybrooke’s fraternity gang rape. He portrayed Todd until 1995, returning from 1996-98 and from 2000-03. When he exited that year, he moved over to As the World Turns, where he played Paul Ryan until the show went off the air in 2010. Following ATWT’s cancellation, OLTL lured him back to play Todd from 2011-12, until it, too, went off the air. Not only did he go on to play Todd on GH, but he reprised the role on OLTL’s short-lived Internet reboot in 2013.
Prior to OLTL, Howarth appeared in short-term roles on Guiding Light (Jory) and Loving (Kent Winslow).
When his decade-plus on GH came to an end, Howarth told Soap Opera Digest, “It took me a minute to kind of adjust, to kind of hear the news; it took a second for me to let that settle in. And then, immediately, I realized how lucky I was to have been able to do something I really love doing for more than a decade with people who I really enjoyed working with. I’m a lucky guy. I had a great run and this was a decision made by people who make these kinds of decisions for a living. For me, I felt it was very much like the scene in Moneyball and Jonah Hill had just told me I’ve been traded. I feel very respected and supported. For a long time I’ve enjoyed coming to work, learning lines and saying them with really cool people.”
At the time, he indicated that he would be open to doing another soap. “One hundred percent,” he declared. “Yeah! I’m an actor. I love acting. If somebody’s gonna ask me, I’m gonna go! I’m gonna get in the car.”
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