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Ruby Rose, New 'Orange Is The New Black' Star: 9 Facts In 90 Seconds

OITNB's Biggest New Star - Everything You Need To Know About Ruby Rose
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'Orange is the New Black's third season is only a week away now, and already we're getting very excited about the prospect of a return to Litchfield Penitentiary, and a catch up with the residents.

One new inmate we've got our eye on is Stella Carlin, a woman with a sarcastic sense of humour that'll be bound to get her noticed, even without her supermodel looks.

Playing her is Aussie model turned actress Ruby Rose, already a star Down Under and celebrated for dancing to her own tune... here are 9 facts in 90 seconds for you to swot up on before you meet her latest orange-suited incarnation...

Ruby Rose
(01 of09)
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Ruby grew up in different parts of Australia before settling in Melbourne. Her god-father is Lionel Rose, the first indigenous Australian to become a world champion boxer, and her great-grandfather was Alec Campbell, the last surviving Australian Battle of Gallipoli soldier.
(02 of09)
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Ruby's first claim to fame was coming second in a TV model-search show in 2002. She lost out to Catherine McNeil, whom she later dated and became engaged to, before breaking up in 2010.
(03 of09)
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Ruby came out as gay when she was 12, and revealed how was bullied at school due to her sexuality. From 2008, she has been chosen as one of the "25 most influential gay and lesbian Australians".
(04 of09)
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After triumphing as a MTV VJ in Australia, Ruby joined Dave Hughes, Charlie Pickering, Carrie Bickmore and James Mathison to host 'The 7Pm Project, a daily TV news talk show. She left to pursue her own projects.
(05 of09)
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Ruby is extensively tattooed, which she showed off in a photo spread for Maxim Australia and PETA, as part of the campaign "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur".
(06 of09)
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Ruby Rose has revealed her ongoing battle with depression, and two years cancelled some tour dates to attend to her health. She is also an ambassador for Headspace.
(07 of09)
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She is now with designer Phoebe Dahl, cousin of Sophie and grand-daughter of author Roald. The couple announced their engagement in March 2014. Ruby told Cosmopolitan, "As soon as I met [my fiancée] Phoebe, I knew. She's everything that I would want in somebody. She's talented, she's funny, and she also has this charitable, giving side."
(08 of09)
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Ruby Rose has announced that she is "gender-fluid". She says, "I wake up every day sort of gender neutral... Well, if I had to choose it would be a boy, a guy. I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy." Despite this, she says she prefers using she/her pronouns to identify herself.
(09 of09)
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Her character in 'Orange is the New Black' is Stella Carlin, a woman known for her sarcastic comebacks.

'Orange Is The New Black' Season 3 will debut on Friday 12 June on Netflix. Trailer here...

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