‘The Rookie: Feds’: James Lesure Joins Cast Of ABC Spinoff Series

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EXCLUSIVE: James Lesure 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-episode 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.James Lesure joins Nash-Betts, Frankie Faison and Felix Solis, who guest starred in the Rookie backdoor pilot episodes as Christopher “Cutty” Clark and Special Agent Matthew Garza, respectively, as well as Britt Robertson and Kevin Zegers, who recently joined The Rookie: Feds as a new series regular, playing Laura Stensen and Brendon Acres, respectively.Lesure will play Carter Hope.

Conservative and a by-the-book traditionalist, Carter’s a model FBI agent, who joined the Bureau after a successful career as a lawyer in the Justice Department.

Now he’s got the most challenging task of his career, training the outspoken and outside-the-box rookie agent, Simone Clark (Nash-Betts), whose style will be a challenge to his painfully-won beliefs.Hawley and Winter executive produce The Rookie: Feds with Mark Gordon, Niecy Nash-Betts, Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Bill Norcross and Corey Miller.