ABC Soaps In Depth

is reporting former

General Hospital

star

Greg Vaughan

has snagged a role on TNT's

The Closer

. The actor will play Officer Wagner along side

Kyra Sedgwick

. Said Vaughan:

"[The episode is] based on a true story about two cops who had an experience with a young man who was financially successful as a realtor. Then things went bad for him because he had a drug addiction, and he found himself on Skid Row at the bottom of the barrel. So I'm actually playing a portrait of a real cop.

Vaughan's episode is slated to air in Dec.

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