Ruby Rules

If you’re sick of Hollywood’s cookie-cutter VIPs, allow us to introduce you to a new kind of superstar: smart, bold and completely unfiltered. Her name is RUBY ROSE.

- Laurie Sandell

Ruby Rose doesn’t know what time it is. “It’s definitely not 10.30am,” she says with a laugh, looking at her watch. “That must be from wherever I was last.” The 30-year-old Australian-born actress has been in such high demand lately, she’s barely been in one time zone long enough to reset her body clock. Today, she’s chatting with me over vegan burgers at LA hotspot Crossroads. This Hollywood institution is a hygge wet dream, all moody lighting and leather booths where you’re as likely to find Gwyneth Paltrow on a dinner date as you are Danny DeVito tucking into a vegan meatball sub.

Tomorrow, Ruby’s off to New York to be on a panel with Gigi Hadid, Lena Dunham, Zoë Kravitz and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman for Reebok’s #PerfectNever campaign. By the time you read this, she’ll be all over the place promoting her star turns in January’s xXx: Return Of Xander Cage and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, as well as this month’s John Wick: Chapter 2.

Even among the Hollywood crowd at Crossroads, Ruby is an eye-magnet – sharp cheekbones, blazing blue eyes and cropped raven hair. Born in Melbourne to a 20-year-old single mother, Katia Langenheim, the actress says she always knew she was different. Ruby had what she describes as a bohemian upbringing, surfing from couch to caravan to house. The two finally landed at her grandmother’s, where they shared a spare room until Ruby was in her teens.