Ronda Rousey will make her return to acting after landing a guest role as a prison inmate in NBC show Blindspot.
The broadcaster released a statement detailing the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion’s addition to the cast list and what her character will bring to the show, per Des Bieler of the Washington Post:
“Rousey will be playing Devon Penberthy: a female prison inmate who grew up in a working-class family from the White Mountains of New Hampshire and is serving time for transporting weapons across state lines. She is a tough, athletic woman who knows how to fight and handle a weapon.”
Rowdy is making her return to acting after suffering the latest loss in her current two-defeat streak in the UFC, having been stopped in her meeting with women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207.
Despite losing some of the veil of invincibility that once surrounded her during her unbeaten run through the UFC bantamweight division, Rousey still sounds like a good fit for the role of Penberthy.
It could be that this role is the latest indicator Rousey intends to concentrate more heavily on a potential Hollywood future as she prepares to make a decision on whether or not she wants to prolong her time in the UFC.
Speaking on the UFC Unfiltered podcast in late January, UFC President Dana White voiced his belief that she was “probably done” fighting for the promotion following her second career loss, via Sports Illustrated:
The 30-year-old already has experience on the big screen after taking on roles of tough characters in films such as The Expendables 3 and Furious 7, as well as playing herself in the Entourage movie adaptation.
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