Ruby Moonstone Camilla Willow Fee (born 7 February 1996) is a German actress.
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Early and personal life
Fee was born in Costa Rica to a German mother and a British father. She was raised by her single mother, a costume designer, with whom she lived in places such as Bali and India, before they moved to Brazil when she reached school age, where she spent much of her childhood. In 2008, the family moved to Berlin, Germany. She was enrolled at Béla Bartók Music School.
Fee speaks at least three languages fluently, namenly German, English and Portuguese. According to Glamour, she also speaks Spanish and French fluently.
She has been in a relationship with actor and director Matthias Schweighöfer since early 2019, and they appeard together in Army of Thieves (2021) and Brick (2025). The couple married in 2026.
Career
In 2010, Ruby O. Fee's career took off with her leading role as Sophie Kellermann in the television series Allein gegen die Zeit. Her versatility was further showcased in her first feature film, Womb (2010), where she played the teenage Rebecca (played as an adult by Eva Green). She also received a leading role as Laila in the feature film Dandelion – The Cinematic Adventure.
In the summer of 2012, the shooting of a film adaptation of the children's book Die schwarzen Brüder with Moritz Bleibtreu took place, in which Ruby O. Fee took over the role of Angeletta. She then got the role in the TV movie Lotta & the Happy Future, in which she played a sick girl who is lovesick. She received much praise for portraying suspect Sarah in the Tatort episode Happy Birthday, Sarah. In the summer of 2013, Fee appeared in front of the camera for Detlev Buck's film Bibi & Tina as Sophia von Gelenberg.
In 2015, she played one of the leading roles in Andreas Dresen's film As We Were Dreaming, based on the novel of the same name by Clemens Meyer. In 2016, she played the female lead in the two-part historical film Marthe's Secret (D/CZ). In the German psychological thriller Zazy, by Matthias X. Oberg, from 2016, she played the female lead. In the 2019 US-German action film Polar, she played a supporting role alongside Mads Mikkelsen. In Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding (2020), plays Paula aus Sankt Pauli, immortalized in the song "Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria" by Udo Lindenberg.
In 2021, Ruby played the role of Korina in the film Army of Thieves, directed by Matthias Schweighöfer, who also starred in the movie. Fee later starred as Vanessa in the television series Testo, and appeared in the 2025 Netflix film Brick. In 2025 she was named GLAMOUR magazine´s Rising Actor at its Women of the Year awards, and she has founded her own production company with the aim of developing female-led scripts and directing.
Filmography
Awards
2014: Jupiter Award for Best German TV Actress, for Tatort: Happy Birthday, Sarah
2014: Golden Sparrow Award for Best Actor, for The Black Brothers
2014: Günter-Strack-Fernsehpreis Award for Tatort: Happy Birthday, Sarah
2016: Immenhof Film Award for Best Actress
