ROGER HOWARTH TODD MANNING (1992 - 1995, 1996 - 1998, 2000)

Roger Howarth returned to One Life to Live in June 2000 as Todd Manning, Victoria Lord Carpenter's troubled and twisted half-brother. Todd's mysterious agenda so far has impacted the lives of several Llanview residents, including his niece, Jessica Buchanan and his former attorney, Nora Buchanan.

Roger Howarth played Todd Manning from 1992-1995, when he left because he disagreed with the direction that The Powers That Be who wanted for Todd, turning his character into a romantic hero after being a rapist.  He was persuaded to come back to the role from 1996 - 1998.

Howarth joined One Life to Live in December 1992, turning what was supposed to be a short-term role into a complex and troubled long-term character.  He won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in 1994.  At the end of his acceptance speech, Roger sent a message home to his son, "Night-night, Jules, I'll try to get Big Bird's autograph for you, and I love you."  He received another nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 1995.  Soap Opera Digest and Outstanding Villain named Roger Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in 1995, in 1998.

Roger Howarth attended George Washington University for one semester then decided to pursue his childhood dream, acting. He enrolled at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and performed at regional theater centers, like Williamstown (Mass.), Stagetown (Springfield, Mass.) and the Cleveland Playhouse. He has also appeared in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Macbeth, and as Probst in the WPA's The White Rose.

Before his playing the troubled and complex Todd Manning on One Life to Live, Roger was Kent Winslow on Loving in 1992 and had a small role on Guiding Light in 1978. 

He was also in a big screen movie in 1991, a murder mystery "Liebstraum", with Kim Novak, Bill Pullman and Alicia Witt. In 1998, Roger Howarth appeared on the primetime television series, Prey as Randall Lynch, and on Broadway in The Lion in Winter, opposite Laurence Fishburne and Stockard Channing.

Roger Howarth lives in Manhattan with his wife, Cari Stahler and his son, Julian.