Michael J. Fox will guest star in a four-episode arc of FX's firefighter drama Rescue Me, it was announced Tuesday at FX's Television Critics Association press tour.

The 47-year-old actor - who suffers from Parkinson's disease - will play a wheelchair-confined love interest for Denis Leary’s on-screen ex, Janet (Andrea Roth).

"He's a very funny, very original character," network president John Landgraf said.

It is Fox’s first return to TV since a 2006 spot on ABC's Boston Legal.

(See which celeb said Michael J. Fox inspired his most recent hair cut.)

The fifth season of Rescue Me debuts in spring 2009.
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