"The Jennifer Hudson Show" closes its week of originals with an appearance by Ryan Destiny. The actress appears for an ...

Ryan Destiny is stepping into the ring with her most physically demanding role yet as she embodies the life of Olympic gold-winning boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields in The Fire Inside. The gritty ...

Ryan Destiny was first cast as Claressa “T-Rex” Shields all the way back in 2019. Over the next several years, the biopic about the boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist endured repeated ...

native who became the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Ryan Destiny stars as Shields alongside Oscar nominee Brian Tyree Henry as her coach, Jason Crutchfield. "I trained in ...

Ryan Destiny said her role playing iconic female boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields in “The Fire Inside” helped her develop a new level of trust in herself as an actress. “I think I found a ...

The short one-hour drive from Detroit to Flint is the metaphorical bridge between two worlds that have shaped Ryan Destiny’s past and future. The Motor City native recently took on her biggest ...

I always want to pay homage to that.” On this morning, Shields is sitting on a hotel couch with Ryan Destiny, the rising Detroit actress who portrays her in the film, and Rachel Morrison ...

Gifted, driven and played by a memorable Ryan Destiny (as if glowering were a renewable energy source), Claressa competed with the dreams of a broken town on her shoulders, and won like none of ...

Ryan Destiny describes her intense training regimen and the challenges of making boxing movie “The Fire Inside” on the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast.“This is a kind of an insp ...

With no major Oscar nominations tied to Michigan, the state still earned Razzie nods for "Unfrosted," the Pop-Tarts comedy from Jerry Seinfeld.