'General Hospital' Alum Demi Moore to Recur on 'Empire'

Demi Moore joins Empire this spring.

Former General Hospital actress Demi Moore will guest-star in a multiple-episode arc on broadcast's No. 1 drama, Empire, beginning this spring on FOX. Moore will make her debut in the Season Three finale, playing a take-charge nurse with a mysterious past, who will become ever more treacherously entangled with the Lyon family in Season Four.

Moore joins previously announced actors and musicians who will appear on EMPIRE this spring, including Eva Longoria, Taye Diggs, Phylicia Rashad, Nia Long and Moore's daughter, Rumer Willis.

Empire returns Wednesday, March 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on FOX, when the battle between Lucious and Cookie explodes into their biggest war yet. After launching a deadly missile at Angelo, Lucious announces his new music project, Inferno, and puts everyone on notice - especially Cookie, who then vows to knock him off his throne for good. The two engage in an epic clash - fueled by a history of love, loyalty and betrayal.

Empire delivers FOX's largest average Multi-Platform audience of more than 16 million viewers. It is the No. 1 broadcast drama in Adults 18-49 and ranks as the No. 1 broadcast entertainment program among in Adults 18-34, Women 18-34 and Teens.

Demi Moore is one of Hollywood's most accomplished and sought-after leading women. Moore's acting career took off in the 1980s, after a stint on General Hospital as Jackie Templeton, and a starring role in St. Elmo's Fire.

She then went on to star in such iconic films as "A Few Good Men," "Ghost," "Indecent Proposal," "Disclosure" and "G.I. Jane." She earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role as a single woman seeking a back-alley abortion in the 1950s-set miniseries "If These Walls Could Talk." The miniseries, which she also produced, received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. Following a brief hiatus, Moore returned to the screen and starred in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," "Bobby," "Flawless," "Happy Tears" and "The Joneses," among others. She was last seen in the 2011 financial thriller "Margin Call" and the drama "Another Happy Day," opposite Ellen Barkin. In 2012, Moore made her directorial debut in the acclaimed original cable movie "Five", an anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives. The film landed her a Directors Guild of America nomination. This June, Moore will be seen in Lucia Aniello's feature comedy, "Rock That Body," alongside Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon and Zoe Kravitz. She also recently completed Michael Mailer's independent film, "Blind," opposite Alec Baldwin.

Anthony Geary Talks Leaving 'General Hospital,' Working with Genie Francis on 'A Spoonful of Paolo'

Paolo Presta and Anthony Geary

Departing star Anthony Geary talked about leaving General Hospital and the role of Luke Spencer in a recent episode of A Spoonful of Paolo. Geary admitted it was going to be hard to say goodbye to his coworkers.

"The people," he replied, when asked what he would miss the most. "There are some wonderful people here. I could get very emotional thinking about them. I've spent a lot of time with these people. They work hard, they're talented, they're devoted."

The eight-time Emmy winner said he's been thinking of leaving GH for the past decade.

"I've been thinking about it for about 10 years," Geary revealed, "ever since I found the place where my heart is, which is the city of Amsterdam. I never felt as comfortable or as authentic as I have felt there."

"I love my work, I love this character, I've enjoyed so many benefits of being able to live on two continents for the last 20 years, an amazing gift the audience has given that to me," Geary added. "I'm very grateful for it but there comes a time when you reach a certain age (68 in late May)... I had a serious spinal operation, two of them, over the last two years, so I realized after the second operation in no certain terms that my time is not infinite on this planet, and I've loved my life, and it's time to take the benefits of what I've gotten from 37..actually I've been an actor for 50 years, half a century of putting on makeup and wardrobe. It was time. I just decided now is the time. It was synchronicity because they had just given me this incredible story of the dark side of Luke fighting the light side, and then with the anniversary show wrapping this character up so beautifully, I just didn't think there was much better we could do."

Later, when asked about working with Roseanne Barr, who played Jennifer Smith on GH in 1994, Geary told a funny story about when they met.

"She's a tough lady," Geary said. "When we first met, I asked her to marry me, and she said, 'I thought you were gay.' And I said, 'Is that a deal breaker?'"

Geary also recalled working with "wild and sexy" Demi Moore, who played Jackie Templeton in the early 1980s.

"Her husky voice drove me crazy," Geary revealed. "I thought she was hot stuff."

On working with Genie Francis, who played Luke's iconic love interest, Laura, Geary said, "Her talent was spectacular, and is spectacular. Her vulnerability, her ability to use her emotional range, is unsurpassed. It's hard to even go there because there's so much...our artistic souls met somewhere in outer space. In the early days, I felt extremely protective of her, which I think fed the relationship of Luke and Laura."

Watch the complete Anthony Geary episode of A Spoonful of Paolo below:

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The Sexiest Women of All-Time: Jennifer Aniston, Raquel Welch, Heather Locklear, Teri Hatcher, Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett

Men's Health has ranked The Sexiest Women of All-Time and Jennifer Aniston landed at No. 1.

Here are some of the names that appeared on daytime or primetime soap operas:
94. Kathleen Turner
90. Barbara Eden
74. Demi Moore
69. Elizabeth Taylor
42. Brooke Shields
38. Teri Hatcher
35. Halle Berry
31. Farrah Fawcett
22. Salma Hayek
19. Heather Locklear
  2. Raquel Welch
  1. Jennifer Aniston

Check out "100 Hottest" here, although we have to question any list that ranks Kim Kardashian and Pamela Anderson ahead of Farrah Fawcett!

Who would you have ranked as No. 1?