Phylicia Rashad may be back on TV

Phylicia Rashad, forever remembered as outspoken mom Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, may be coming back to television.

The theater veteran has been cast in the CBS drama For Justice, according to Variety. The pilot is being directed by Selma's Ava DuVernay.

DuVernay Tweeted the news as well.

Rashad is a gay FBI agent who's politically astute and works in the Criminal Section of the Department of Civil Rights Division. The project is still in the pilot phase, and is not yet a confirmed series.

Most recently, Rashad made headlines for defending her TV husband Bill Cosby, who's been mired on ongoing allegations of drugging and raping women.

This fall, she's in Creed, yet another installment of the Rocky Balboa saga -- this time about the grandson of Rocky's opponent, Apollo Creed. And this spring, she's directing the play Immediate Family at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.