Tony Winner Julie White Boards CBS Comedy Pilot REAL GOOD PEOPLE

Tony winner Julie White may soon be headed back to television.

According to Deadline, the stage and screen veteran has been tapped for a leading role in CBS' upcoming comedy pilot REAL GOOD PEOPLE from Stephnie Weir and Greg Garcia.

The family comedy follows a "conservative small-town family forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children's lives are less than perfect." White is set to take on the role of "Gloria, THE FAMILY matriarch and other half of what is possibly the world's happiest couple."

White received the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Little Dog Laughed, and recently wrapped runs in Christopher Durang's VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, MTC AIRLINE HIGHWAY (for which she received a Tony nomination) and A.R. Gurney's SYLVIA, in which she starred opposite Matthew Broderick and Annaleigh Ashford.

She also received an Obie Award and nominations from the Drama Desk, Lucille Lorte lAwards, Outer Critics Circle and the Drama League for this performance. She also recently starred on stage in From Up Here (Drama Desk, Drama League nominations) at Manhattan Theatre Club. Her other New York stage appearances include Fiction at The Roundabout, The Heidi Chronicles, Dinner With Friends, Barbra's Wedding and also Bad Dates, Spike Heels, and The Family of Man all by Theresa Rebeck. Television credits include "Cavemen," guest starring as Mitzi Dalton Huntley on HBO's "Six Feet Under," a series regular on "Grace Under Fire," "The Heidi Chronicles," "Law And Order," "Law And Order: SVU," "Whoopi," "Ally McBeal," "Strong Medicine," "Touched By An Angel" and "Arli$." Film credits include the upcoming Transformers 2, The Astronaut Farmer, Michael Clayton, The Nanny Diaries, Transformers, War Of The Worlds, Slap Her, She's French, Breaking Upwards and Sunday on the Rocks.