Ruby Rose Returns To Australia And Starts A New Career After Challenges In Hollywood

Ruby Rose is making the big move back to Australia after several years of being based in Los Angeles. The Aussie actress is bound to go home because she has landed her first play and a lead role in 2:22 A Ghost Story. The play is set to premiere in Melbourne in the next few months.

Speaking with The Herald Express, the 37-year-old singer and actress shared that working and being on stage was one of her dreams, and now, she has the opportunity to make it come true. 

The former JV gushed during the interview, “I’m very excited. I’ve always wanted to do theater, and this is my first play.”

Ruby Rose admitted she is nervous because the theater stage is technically unfamiliar territory for her, but the actress can’t hide her excitement. Ruby Rose is also thrilled to return home to her native Melbourne.

Recall that Ruby started her career as a model, a DJ, and then went on to be a TV presenter for TV Australia.

As she started making a name for herself, she began working on significant modeling shoots and campaigns, including for Maybelline. She was also tapped to co-host popular TV shows, including Channel 10’s Australia’s Next Top Model and The Project.

With this, she wanted to dream further and hoped to have a break in acting, prompting her to move to Hollywood a decade ago. Her efforts and decision paid off as her name became known in 2015 after her breakout performance in Orange Is the New Black, one of Netflix’s popular shows.

This was the break she needed—her acting career exploded after her role in the series. Ruby was included in blockbuster films like 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and 2017’s Pitch Perfect 3. She was also allowed to work with some of Hollywood’s best, like Vin Diesel in the film xXx: Return of Xander Cage in 2017 and then with Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 2.

Ruby had another hit movie the following year when she starred alongside Jason Statham in The Meg, a successful sci-fi thriller.

But the glory of Ruby’s career was not meant to last forever because, two years after The Meg, she was front and center of a controversy when she left CW’s TV show Batwoman. Ruby only spent one season with the show, and the actress left primarily because she was subjected to bad working conditions while on the set of the series.

Back then, Ruby wrote a rather scathing post online to explain her side, stating, “To my dear, dear fans still asking if I will return to that awful show, I wouldn’t return for any amount of money nor if a gun were to my head…Nor did I quit.”

She reiterated how she did not quit the show and that the environment and people ruined Batwoman and destroyed her character Kate Kane. She clearly stated that it was not her who caused all the commotion.

After that, Ruby saw fewer projects but still appeared in several other films like Stowaway, 1UP, Vanquish, and Taurus from 2021 to 2022.