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Exclusive: Antoinette Robertson, who most recently starred in all four seasons of the acclaimed Netflix series, Dear White People, has signed with APA for representation.

Robertson, who will next be seen starring opposite Margaret Avery in director Dawn Wilkinson’s Juneteenth holiday comedy Block Party, also recently wrapped a role in director Tim Story’s upcoming comedy, The Blackening, opposite Jay Pharoah, Jermaine Fowler, and Dewayne Perkins. The film penned by Perkins and Tracy Oliver watches as seven black friends who go away for the weekend must rely on their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies to survive, when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a vindictive killer.

Robertson has previously recurred in series including The Haves and the Have Nots for OWN, The CW’s Hart of Dixie and CBC’s Diggstown.

APA’s signing of the actress follows its addition of clients including actors Nick Stahl,...

Here are the 2010 New York Reader's Choice results for categories dealing with health and fitness. To look at all of the categories, be sure to visit the main page. Favorite Gym: New York Sports Clubs New York Sports Clubs started off in 1974 as a squash club with one location. The gym now has 160 outlets throughout the Northeast—40 in Manhattan alone—offering everything from personal training to classes such as Zumba dance and neuromuscular integrated action."We've been part of New York for 36 years now," says Bob Giardina, president of New York Sports Clubs' parent company, Town Sports International. "Because exercise is so important to actors' careers, it's even more special for us to get this honor and know that they see the difference."Actor Kristin Shields sees a big difference between New York Sports Clubs and other gyms. "The Nysc on 80th and Broadway offers a ton of classes throughout the day,...