Margot Elise Robbie ( / ˈ m ɑːr ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ b i / MAR -goh ROB -ee ; born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress and producer. The world’s highest-paid actress in 2023, she is known for her performances in both blockbuster and independent films . Robbie has been nominated for three Academy Awards , four Golden Globe Awards , and six British Academy Film Awards . Born and raised in Queensland , Robbie began her acting career in 2008 on the television series Neighbours , where she appeared as a regular until 2011. After relocating to the US, she starred in the television drama Pan Am (2011–2012) and gained international recognition with her breakthrough role in Martin Scorsese ‘s black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). She garnered wider acclaim for her performances as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and Harley Quinn in three superhero films of the DC Extended Universe : Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021). Robbie earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying figure skater Tonya Harding in the biopic I, Tonya (2017). She received critical acclaim for her performances as Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and a Fox News employee in Bombshell (2019), the latter earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . She starred as an aspiring actress in the period drama Babylon (2022) and played the titular fashion doll in the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023), her highest-grossing release, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer. In 2017, Time included Robbie among its list of the 100 most influential people in the world . She is married to filmmaker Tom Ackerley , with whom she has one child. Together, they co-founded the production company LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014. Under the label, they have produced several projects, including the films I, Tonya , Promising Young Woman (2020), Barbie , and Saltburn (2023), as well as the Hulu series Dollface (2019–2022) and the Netflix miniseries Maid (2021). Outside the entertainment industry, Robbie is an advocate for human rights , women’s rights , gender equality and LGBT rights . Margot Elise Robbie was born in Dalby, Queensland , on 2 July 1990. [ 1 ] Her father, Doug Robbie, was a former farm-owner and sugarcane tycoon , while her mother, Sarie Kessler, was a physiotherapist . [ 2 ] Through her father, she is of Scottish descent. [ 3 ] Margot is the third of four children: she has two older siblings—Anya and Lachlan—and a younger brother, Cameron. [ 4 ] When she was five years old, her father, whom she has described as “awful”, separated from the family and she moved to her mother’s hometown of the Gold Coast . [ 5 ] Robbie recalled that she and her siblings “didn’t make life easy” for their single mother, remembering that they often fought and that her mother had to be a “very strong woman to hold things together”. [ 4 ] The family spent most of her childhood on her grandparents’ Currumbin Valley farm in the Gold Coast hinterland . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As a child, Robbie frequently went boar hunting and surfing with her siblings, and developed an early interest in agriculture and animal husbandry —an upbringing she described as one “you’d never expect to lead anyone into acting”. [ 4 ] Around this time, her classmates began nicknaming her “Maggot”, which originated from a teacher’s mispronunciation during roll call and stayed with her into adulthood. [ 8 ] Robbie often staged performances at home, and her mother later enrolled her in a circus school , where she excelled in trapeze and earned a certificate at the age of eight. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] During her teenage years, she became deeply obsessed with the Harry Potter novels, admitting that she once lied to an optometrist in order to get glasses like the titular wizard . [ 11 ] For her secondary education, Robbie attended Somerset College , where she studied drama . [ 12 ] During this period, she held three jobs: tending bar, cleaning houses, and working at Subway . [ 13 ] After graduating, with experience in commercials and independent thriller films , she relocated to Melbourne to pursue acting professionally. [ 14 ] [ 15 ]
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