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Ruby Rose Is Beyond Charming in Her First Appearance with Ellen DeGeneres

Ruby chats with Ellen about her breakout role on Orange Is the New Black and her upcoming projects including Pitch Perfect 3.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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January 11 2017 3:15 PM EST

May 26 2023 12:27 PM EST

Of course, we’ve known about Ruby Rose for nearly 10 years, but she’s about to go very mainstream. The Australian native’s nine-episode arc on Orange Is the New Black certainly helped propel her star power here in the United States. But she appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’s show on Tuesday, and that’s about as big of an audience you can get.

In her interview with Ellen, Ruby explains that she was cast in Orange Is the New Black once her short film Break Free, about gender fluidity, went viral a few years back. We wish Ruby had gotten a chance to discuss that short film in detail with Ellen, but you can’t have it all. Instead, she chatted with Ellen about her upcoming roles in Pitch Perfect 3 (apparently she sang in a church choir as a kid), and in the Vin Diesel action flick xXx: The Return of Xander Cage(in which the trailer makes it seem as though Ruby may be playing a queer character).

Watch Ruby with Ellen here.

And in case you're having trouble remembering Break Free, here's a reminder.