‘The Rookie: Feds’: Britt Robertson Joins ABC Spinoff Series

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EXCLUSIVE: Britt Robertson has been tapped as a series regular on ABC’s new hourlong series The Rookie: Feds, headlined by Niecy Nash-Betts.Co-created by Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter, The Rookie: Feds stars Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy.

The spinoff was introduced in a two-part arc on Season 4 of The Rookie, where Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and the LA division of the FBI enlist the help of Simone Clark when one of her former students is a suspect in a terror attack.Robertson joins Nash-Betts, Frankie Faison, who plays Christopher “Cutty” Clark and Felix Solis (Special Agent Matthew Garza), who guest starred in the two Rookie episodes, which served as backdoor pilot for The Rookie: Feds, and are continuing on the new series as series regulars. (Kat Foster also appeared on The Rookie but her role, Special Agent Casey Fox, did not move forward.)On the new series, Robertson will play Laura Stensen.

She is the “black sheep” of a family of brilliant academics and the youngest person ever allowed into the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit.

But after discovering her boyfriend had been cheating on her with her best friend, Laura fell into a slump – how could a criminal profiler miss that the people closest to her were liars?