Just in case you've forgotten, or are new to the wonders of UFC, Ronda Rousey hasn't just provided drama in the octagon.

Out of the fighting arena, she has appeared in the Expendables and Fast & Furious 7. Here's Kat Brown looking at the warrior's transition from fighting lady to (almost) leading lady.

There was something very unusual at the Expendables 3 press call at Cannes last year. In the middle in a cloud of ageing testosterone was a woman. A woman! In The Expendables! Good grief. And not just any woman either. Over the last year, the 28-year-old athlete Ronda Rousey has become a star on screen as well as her in chosen field of mixed martial arts, once known as cage fighting, and now known as ultimate fighting to the legion of fans who pay to watch its championships online. The Expendables franchise has become a rite of passage for older male action stars, but Rousey's record in her field was her ticket straight to the screen, first to Expendables, and now to Fast & Furious 7, the latest instalment of the Fast and the Furious franchise.

Her success has got to the stage when there is talk of her taking on a male opponent simply for the challenge. Rousey has taken the responsible view and dismissed this out of hand. Earlier this year she told The Daily Beast website: "I don’t think it’s a great idea to have a man hitting a woman on television. I’ll never say that I’ll lose, but you could have a girl getting totally beat up on TV by a guy – which is a bad image to put across. "With all the football [domestic violence] stuff that’s been happening, not a good idea. It’s fun to theorize about and talk about, but it’s something that’s much better in theory than fact."

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