STAGE TUBE: Moore Returns to CBS' 'As the World Turns' April 5

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, stage and screen star Julianne Moore will return to As the World Turns, the soap on which she got her start. Entertainment Weekly reveals today that Moore's episode will air on the CBS daytime drama on April 5. Moore began her career on the show as half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes, and will reprise the role of Frannie in her guest appearance.

Julianne Moore has appeared in such films as Benny and Joon, Short Cuts and Vanya on 42nd Street. She launched her career in 1995 with Safe, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award. She has additionally starred as Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in "Nine Months". In 1997 she received her first Academy Award nomination, as well as Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her co-starring role in the film "Boogie Nights" opposite Mark Wahlberg and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. In 1998, Moore played an erotic artist in the Coen Brother's film "The Big Lebowski," followed by the 1999 re-make of "Psycho," directed by Gus Van Sant. That same year, she reteamed with director Paul Thomas Anderson in the film "Magnolia." Moore made her Broadway debut opposite Bill Nighy in The Vertical Hour last winter, and has also appeared on stage in Vanya on 42nd Street.

As the World Turns premiered on April 2, 1956. It was the first television daytime drama with a 30-minute running time; all daytime dramas until then had had 15-minute running times. By 1958, the program was the number one daytime drama in the United States. As the World Turns continues to run to this day on CBS, and has won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series four times. The show airs on CBS daily from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.