Ruby Rose
Ruby Rose is an Australian actor, presenter and model. She became a household name in Australia as an MTV presenter and has gone on to host Australia’s Next Top Model and feature in the Netflix show, Orange is the New Black. From 2008 she has focused on her acting career and has had roles in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, XXX: Return of Xander Cage and John Wick: Chapter 2. She co-starred in the musical Pitch Perfect 3 and the monster film The Meg.
Rose began her journey to veganism in 2013. Despite some initial health hurdles, she managed to overcome them and ditched meat and dairy.1Flink, T. 2021.Vegan Actor Ruby Rose Reveals Her Plant-Based Food Staples. Live Kindly. Available: https://www.livekindly.co/vegan-actor-ruby-rose-reveals-her-plant-based-food-staples/ [Accessed 10 March 2021]. Learning about the cruel production of shark fin soup also helped turn Ruby vegan.2Cappiello, J. 2018. Ruby Rose Explains Why She Went Vegan on #SharkWeek Episode. Mercy for Animals. Available: https://mercyforanimals.org/blog/ruby-rose-explains-why-she-went-vegan-on/ [Accessed 10 March 2021].
“May I suggest turning vegan or at least vegetarian? We can be the change.”1Flink, T. 2021.Vegan Actor Ruby Rose Reveals Her Plant-Based Food Staples. Live Kindly. Available: https://www.livekindly.co/vegan-actor-ruby-rose-reveals-her-plant-based-food-staples/ [Accessed 10 March 2021].
“I used to get something called “shark fin soup and I didn’t know. … I said to my mom, ‘Wait, is this made out of an actual shark’s fin?’ and she was like, ‘Oh no, darling, of course not’ … I later found out that it was and ended up being so sad that I cried for three weeks. … I thought that it was even worse that they just cut the fins off and the sharks were out there not able to move. … That really scared me and I used to have nightmares that they were finless in the ocean and I couldn’t eat any fish ever again.”2Cappiello, J. 2018. Ruby Rose Explains Why She Went Vegan on #SharkWeek Episode. Mercy for Animals. Available: https://mercyforanimals.org/blog/ruby-rose-explains-why-she-went-vegan-on/ [Accessed 10 March 2021].
