Netflix's Teen comedy Sex Education has been garnering a lot of popularity and praise among fans for its ensemble cast, sensitive writing and engaging screenplay. The series on the whole along with the third season, has only 24 episodes, each spanning about an hour each but fans have to wait for one whole year for the show's makers to reveal announcements regarding the same.
Created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix, the first series premiered in 2019 and since then it has managed to grab the likes of many. The series follows the lives of the students, staff and parents of the fictitious Moordale Secondary School as they deal with many personal dilemmas. The students struggle to understand their growing bodies and sexuality. It features an ensemble cast that includes Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Alistair Petrie, Mimi Keene, and Aimee Lou Wood.
Warning - spoilers ahead for season 3
The season three of the much-expected and popular series premiered on September 17 and fans were surprised that Otis (Asa Butterfield) and his romantic interest Maeve (Emma Mackey) weren't given much screentime or importance. Rather the limelight fell on the supporting characters of Jean Milburn, Adam Groff, Eric, Rahim, Ruby, Hope and Lily. One of them - Ruby - captured the attention of many. British actress Mimi Keene who plays Ruby, Otis' partner who has a no-strings-attached relationship with him, has suddenly hogged the limelight.
She was seen as the popular high-school mean girl in season one and as a person who had a one-night stand with Otis in season 2, but in the current season, her depth of personality and her character was explored. So much that fans who were rooting for Maeve and Otis, realised how much of a 'gem' Ruby was, literally. She's proven herself as one of the most underrated talents on Sex Education's stacked cast. Social media users were left devastated when Otis broke Ruby's heart that fans jumped in support of the fictional star. Enraged fans also demanded the makers to get Otis-Ruby's relationship together in season 4.
23-year-old Mimi Keene made her professional debut playing Janey in the play Kin at The Royal Court Theatre in 2010. She then made her TV debut on an episode of the British teen show Sadie J in 2013. Her first recurring TV role was Cindy, a troubled teen on the longtime BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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