The actor and writer/director tell the story of the first million dollar female athlete in history. Emily Bett Rickards and ...

Most ardent wrestling fans have at the very least heard the name Mildred Burke, even if they are not intimately familiar with her rise to fame in the 1930's, 40 ...

The titular character of Mildred Burke is played by 'Arrow' star Emily Bett Rickards. While speaking with Denise Salcedo for a new interview, Rickards stated that the character of Burke inspired her ...

"I can't sing and I can't dance," Mildred Burke tells her future manager, husband, business partner (and later ex-husband and ...

Emily Bett Rickards plays the title role in “Queen of the Ring,” based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the pioneering ...

"Mildred Burke was a dreamer, a trailblazer, a warrior and an all-time wrestling single mother who defied the era that she was in," said Emily Bett Rickards, who plays the biopic's lead role.

Mildred Burke put women’s wrestling on the map and became the first woman athlete to make a million. Yet she’s virtually ...

The same can’t be said about the big screen. With scattered exceptions – “ . . . All the Marbles” (1981), “Fighting with My Family” (2019), “Racket Girls” (1951), and “Below the Belt” (1980), which ...

Former WWE Champion Mick Foley gets candid about the new wrestling biopic, "Queen of the Ring," that chronicles the ...

The story of pioneer “lady wrestler” Mildred Burke (Emily Bett Rickards) finally hits the big screen in “Queen of the Ring." ...

Wrestling biopics, while rare, are not new. Late 2023 saw the release of The Iron Claw, about the famed Von Erich family.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with actress Emily Bett Rickards about "Queen of The Ring." The biographical film tells the story of Mildred Burke, a single mother who defied the odds in the 1930s to become ...