Former WWE star Eva Marie, real name Natalie Eva Coyle, has landed a starring role in the upcoming action thriller, Phoenix.
Also featured in the movie includes UFC legends Randy Couture and Rashad Evans, as well as former WWE star Vladamir Kozlov.
According to Deadline, Marie will play Fiona “Phoenix” Grant, a US Army veteran who teaches hand-to-hand combat skills in Afghanistan. The plot reads like the following:
“Things go sideways when Grant’s father, security specialist Everett Grant (Randy Couture), is found dead. A police report lists his cause of death as a suicide, but she doesn’t believe it. When Fiona returns home to the United States, she learns that the prime suspect in her father’s death is drug kingpin Maxim Vasiliiev (Vladamir Kozlov). Armed to the teeth, she plans to take out Vasiliiev with her bare hands, and nothing is going to stop her.”
Marie was released from WWE back in November 2021.