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Ross Kenry O'Donovan 17 June 1987 Perth, Western Australia |
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Nationality | Australian | ||||||
Residence | Glendale, California | ||||||
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Spouse(s) | Holly Conrad (m. 2012) | ||||||
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Pseudonym | RubberNinja | ||||||
Channel | RubberNinja | ||||||
Years active | 2004–present | ||||||
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Subscribers | 448,355 (April 2017) | ||||||
Total views | 18.3 million (April 2017) | ||||||
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Ross Kenry O'Donovan is an Australian animator, voice actor, and Internet personality. He is known for his YouTube and Newgrounds cartoons. He co-hosts the internet show Steam Train, a spin-off of YouTube Let's Play webseries Game Grumps.
Ross Kenry O'Donovan was born on 17 June 1987 in Perth, Western Australia to Irish parents. He graduated from Corpus Christi College. On September 29, 2012, O'Donovan married Holly Conrad, a cosplayer, propmaker, and special effects artist who was featured in Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, as well as Heroes of Cosplay.
After graduating from Corpus Christi, O'Donovan studied and instructed animation at the Film and Television Institute of Western Australia in Fremantle, Western Australia. O'Donovan's best known work is the series Gamer Tonight, which is voiced and co-written by animator Arin Hanson, and was produced for the ABC2 video game-based program Good Game. The series features a fictitious talk show called Gamer Tonight with Richard Farkas, whose host would interview various types of gamers. He also created the show Gameoverse, which featured Hanson in every speaking role. Gameoverse has since been put on hiatus, though O'Donovan has confirmed the series will return. O'Donovan started animating on Newgrounds, under the name "RubberNinja." He then moved his animations to YouTube, but as a result of not being able to keep the username RubberNinja, he went under the name "RubberRoss." In January 2014, he received possession of the name RubberNinja, and uploaded a video on his old channel telling subscribers to transfer over to his new one. This video has since been removed.