Ryan Destiny

thumb Ryan Destiny Irons (born January 8, 1995) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Destiny is best known for her roles in the Fox TV musical drama Star, the Freeform sitcom Grown-ish, and as the two-time Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Claressa Shields in the Claressa Shields biopic, The Fire Inside (2024) directed by Rachel Morrison. Quotes Oh my god, that’s such a loaded question. I’m just a girl from Detroit, Michigan who is trying to do something in the world, I guess. I did not. One of the biggest things for a lot of us when we started filming was how much we didn’t know. Which really hurts when you think about it, because it’s like, how do you not know about that? But I was in my own bubble, an artsy type of kid. I wasn’t watching the Olympics. It’s just crazy because we’re both from Michigan, and I found out a lot of things after I heard about the audition. I have two brothers, and I also have a half-sister, but I grew up with my two brothers my whole life and I’m in the middle. I feel like having two brothers, you definitely have a little bit more roughness to you. I fought with them. Just a little bit. Yeah, it’s definitely something that I’m so blessed to have. To have someone able to protect you, especially in the industry as long as she has, and look out for you when you don’t really understand a lot of things. But with this story in particular, the way I could relate to it was regardless of how things are, the relationship between mother and daughter is always going to be complex. There’s going to be things that you wish were better. My mother was also a young mother, so it’s that same dynamic with Claressa’s mom of her learning along the way. And they have a way better relationship now, which made me really happy to hear from her. Ryan Destiny and Colman Domingo Talk Divas, Astrology, and Fried Chicken;By Colman Domingo Honestly, I have no idea. I’m taking it one day at a time Trying to find a balance with a lot of different things helps, for sure. The beautiful thing about this whole time, and everything that we’ve been going through, I really feel like there’s an actual shift this go-round. It’s inspired a lot of people within our community to speak out about a lot of the things we’ve gone through and we experience in our work spaces I just hope that with me speaking up, along with so many other actors, singers, entertainers, it just helps the next wave of people and inspires to not take anymore crap from people and not hide what we feel anymore, I wasn’t one of those kids who flipped back and forth with what I wanted to do. I always knew it was this, I just didn’t know in what capacity. "Ryan Destiny Is Breaking the Rules for Young Black Girls in Music and Hollywood" (Sep 1, 2020) External links 3629113 Category:Living people Category:1995 births Category:Actresses from Detroit Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1990s