It feels like I went to bed one evening, only to wake up the next morning in a world in which everyone was talking about Ruby Rose, as though the Earth’s population had held a meeting and failed to invite me in which they all concluded that every conversation would exclusively revolve around the 29-year-old Australian from here on out.
The actress has burst onto the scene playing the role of Stella in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, and she’s made a pretty remarkable impact. Not a day goes by where a Facebook photo of her commendably angular bone structure hasn’t graced my news feed, and it seems like every otherwise heterosexual woman has decided that “turning gay” is now a possibility as they reiterate how they would, like, totally go gay for her, seemingly unaware of a little thing called the Kinsey Scale.
So let’s get to the bottom of this once and for all: who is Ruby Rose?
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Who is Ruby Rose?
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Ruby Rose first got her break in the spotlight in 2002 at the age of 16, when she joined Australian teen girls magazine Girlfriend's model search. She came in second place, beaten by winner Catherine McNeil, whom she later engaged. They broke up, in case you were wondering.
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She's been named one of the '25 Most Influential Gay and Lesbian Australians' by the online LGBT community Same Same.
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She has stated that she is genderfluid, meaning that her gender identity is neither strictly masculine nor feminine. After releasing a short film based upon this, she was quoted as saying: "I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral."
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Prior to Orange is the New Black, the only acting roles to her name was a part in Australian crime show Mr & Mrs Murder, and a part in the Christina Ricci movie Around The Block.
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Unsurprisingly Ruby Rose has also turned her hand to modeling, pairing with Australian label Milk and Honey to design and model her very own clothing line, inventively named 'Milk and Honey Designed by Ruby Rose.' Wow, I wonder how they came up with that?!
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She became an MTV VJ (that's the job title given to those who introduce the music videos before they play, because "presenter" doesn't sound cool enough, apparently) back in 2008, after competing in a national contest with the music station.
In order to acquire the job she downed shots of beer with Jackass star Bam Margera and, er, kissed strangers on a Sydney street. I think MTV would rightly be hit with a lawsuit these days if they forced employees to do that now.
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She appeared in one episode of the Australian remake of the British prank show, Balls of Steel.
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In 2014 she got engaged to Phoebe Dahl, the granddaughter of the late children's author Roald Dahl.
