Which is Better: Cinema or Sport? Olympic athletes that ended up as Cinema actress

With 2020 Tokyo Olympic currently going on in Japan and attention of all people to this important sport event and many new or well know athletic faces and TV cameras that focusing on them, it is interesting to know today’s athlete may become tomorrow’s Cinema actress or TV star.

Cinema has many attraction and being a Cinema or TV actress is the ambitious of many people specially athletes.

This is also very good for filmmakers as they can use an known name to act in their movie instead on an unknown name and it can somehow guarantee the sales of their film.

Here we have a quick look on some Cinema actresses that started their carrier as an athlete and even participated in Olympic games.

1- Serena Williams

The famous American tennis player and the champion of many important Tennis world games has 23 Grand Slams, and has won four gold medals at the Olympics: three along with her sister Venus in doubles and one in singles at the 2012 Games.

She is still a good athlete but also appeared in many TV series like ER, The Division, Drop Dead Diva, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, also My Wife and Kids and The Bernie Mac Show

2-Caitlyn Jenner

Formerly known as Bruce Jenner, was an Olympic athlete, she competed in the decathlon in the 1972 Games, but won gold in 1976. She ended up playing in some TV shows like The Fall Guy, Murder She Wrote, and The Love Boat and later she played reality TV shows.

3-Estella Warren

She is Canadian and won three national titles and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, alter she ended up as fashion model and actress. She played in several films including Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes as well as television roles in Law & Order, Beauty and the Beast

4- Cathy Rigby

She was a gymnastics and competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics but later ended up as actress playing in TV series that Peter Pan is the most famous one that her role took more than 30 years

5-Ronda Rousey

She won the Olympic medal in judo (bronze) at the 2008 Summer Olympics and it was the first ever medal in this sport for America, However she ended up playing in several movies and TV shows such as The Expendables 3, Furious 7 and Mile 22

6-Hillary Wolf

She is an exemption in our list because she started from TV then turned up in Olympic games. She played in several TV films that the most memorable one is her role as Megan, the older sister of Kevin McCallister in the Home Alone franchise.

7-McKayla Maroni

She won the silver medal in the vault in the 2012 Olympics and in the same year, she also debuted in the small screen with a role in the CW series Hart of Dixie, then appeared in Bones and made a cameo in Superstore as herself. Last year, she also launched her singing career with her single Wake Up Call.