Margot Robbie

Margot Robbie is
an Australian
actress who has
moved to the U.S.
to pursue her
Hollywood dream.
 Childhood & Early Life
Margot Robbie was born on 2 July 1990, in Dalby,
Queensland, Australia. She grew up in Gold Coast and
moved to Melbourne in her teenage years to pursue
acting professionally.

Melbourne
Her mother, Sarie
Kessler is a
physiotherapist,
and her father
Doug Robbie, is a
sugarcane tycoon.
Her father left
them when she
was an infant and
hence her
relationship with
her father is
strained.
 She, along with her three siblings, was raised by her
mother and grandparents in their farm.
She has an older brother
Lachlan, younger brother
Cameron and a sister,
Anya. She has worked in
the farm and even did
three jobs at the age of 16
to support her family. She
loved spending her free
time surfing or hunting
wild pigs on the farm.
Career
Margot Robbie started
her acting career in
2007 with two
independent Australian
films directed by Aash
Aaron. While the
action feature film
'Vigilante' was released
in 2008, the thriller
film 'I.C.U.' was not
released until 2009.
In 2008, she appeared as a guest in two episodes of the
Australian children's television series 'The Elephant
Princess'. The same year, she also made guest appearance
in another TV series, 'City Homicide', and worked on a
number of commercials.
Her first big break also came in the form of a guest role
initially. In June 2008, she appeared as Donna Freedman
on the Australian soap opera 'Neighbours'. However, her
performance impressed the producers enough to make
her role a regular one. She appeared on the show till
January 2011. She returned to the series in 2015 for a
special documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of
the show.
 In 2011, she moved to Los
Angeles to pursue a Hollywood
career, and auditioned for the
new series of 'Charlie's Angels'.
Instead, she was offered the role
of Laura Cameron, a newly
trained flight attendant, in the
ABC drama series 'Pan Am'.
She got her first big movie role
in 2012, in the romantic comedy
film 'About Time'. The movie,
which released in 2013, featured
Robbie alongside stars like
Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel
McAdams and Bill Nighy.
In June 2012, she was cast opposite Leonardo DiCaprio
by iconic American director Martin Scorsese in the
movie 'The Wolf of Wall Street'. The film, which
released the next year, was a box-office hit and received
five Academy Award nominations.
Her next movie, 'Focus', a romantic crime comedy,
came in 2015. She acted opposite Will Smith in the
movie and received accolades from the critics.
 In 2015, she worked with Michelle Williams, Kristin
Scott Thomas and Matthias Schoenaerts in the movie
'Suite Française'. In December that year, she made a
guest appearance as herself in the movie 'The Big Short'.
The film 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' was Robbie's first release in
2016. She played Tanya Vanderpoel, a British TV journalist, in the
movie, which was a film adaptation of the book 'The Taliban
Shuffle'.
It was followed by the action adventure film 'The Legend of
Tarzan', which released in July, and co-starred Alexander
Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. She played
the female lead, Jane Porter.
 In 2016, she played another
major role, Harley Quinn,
in the blockbuster
supervillain movie, 'Suicide
Squad'. The film, which
starred actors like Will
Smith, Jared Leto, Viola
Davis and Joel Kinnaman,
received criticism for its
muddled plot, but Robbie's
performance charmed
most critics.
 In 2017, Robbie starred alongside
Domhnall Gleeson in Goodbye
Christopher Robin. She next
portrayed the American figure
skater Tonya Harding in «I, Tonya»
In 2018, Robbie voiced the character of Flopsy Rabbit in the
animated/live-action film Peter Rabbit, an adaptation of the
Beatrix Potter book series. She then starred in Vaughn Stein's
thriller film Terminal as Annie. She then made a cameo
appearance as Audrey in Slaughterhouse Rulez and portrayed
Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots, opposite Saoirse
Ronan as Mary Stuart.
Robbie began 2019 by starring as a femme fatale in Dreamland, a
period crime thriller set during the 1930s Dust Bowl, which she
also produced.She next agreed to portray the actress Sharon Tate
in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, due to her
desire to work with Tarantino.
 Robbie will next reprise her
role as Quinn in The Suicide
Squad and her voice role as
Flopsy Rabbit in Peter Rabbit
2: The Runaway.
 Major Works
Margot Robbie got recognition for her role in the critically and
commercially successful movie, 'The Wolf of Wall Street', in which
she played Leonardo DiCaprio's wife. The film grossed $392
million worldwide, becoming director Scorsese's highest-grossing
film.
 She is best known for playing the role of the DC villain Harley
Quinn in the movie 'Suicide Squad'. The movie was successful at
the box office, grossing a worldwide total of $745.6 million.
While the film disappointed many critics, Robbie's performance
was praised and earned her awards and nominations.
 Awards & Achievements
Her performance in the movie 'The Wolf of Wall Street' got her
nominated for a number of prestigious awards. In 2014, she won
the Empire Awards in the 'Best Female Newcomer' category.
Her role in the movie
'Suicide Squad' is
considered to be her
best acting so far. Her
portrayal of the
supervillain Harley
Quinn has won a
Critics' Choice Award
in 2016 and a People's
Choice Award in 2017
 Personal Life & Legacy
Margot Robbie and her siblings were raised by her
single mother. On her mother's 60th birthday, as a gift,
she paid off the entire mortgage of the house her mother
lives in.
 In 2014, she got into a relationship with Tom Ackerley. They
met on the sets of 'Suite Française', for which Ackerley
served as the third assistant director. They got married in a
low profile private ceremony in Byron Bay in December 2016.
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