Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress and producer.
59 Facts About Margot Robbie
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Margot Robbie achieved wider recognition with starring roles as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan and Harley Quinn in the DC superhero films, beginning with Suicide Squad.
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Margot Robbie received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of figure skater Tonya Harding in the biopic I, Tonya.
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Margot Robbie received BAFTA Award nominations for all three and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the last.
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Margot Robbie has since starred in the period film Babylon.
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Margot Elise Robbie was born on 2 July 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, to Doug Robbie, a former farm-owner and sugarcane tycoon, and Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist.
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Margot Robbie is the second youngest of four; older siblings Anya and Lachlan and younger brother Cameron.
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The family spent the majority of Margot Robbie's upbringing on her grandparents' Currumbin Valley farm in the Gold Coast hinterland.
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An energetic child, Margot Robbie often put on shows in her house.
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Margot Robbie's first acting roles came when she was in high school.
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Margot Robbie described the experience of being on a film set as "a dream come true".
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Margot Robbie made her television debut in a 2008 guest role as Caitlin Brentford in the drama series City Homicide and followed this with a two-episode arc in the children's television series The Elephant Princess, in which she starred alongside Liam Hemsworth.
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In June 2008, she began playing Donna Freedman, a role that was meant to be a guest character, but Margot Robbie was promoted to the regular cast after she made her debut.
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Shortly after arriving in America, Margot Robbie landed the role of Laura Cameron, a newly trained flight attendant in the period drama series Pan Am.
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Margot Robbie made her feature film debut in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time, co-starring Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams.
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Margot Robbie's breakthrough came the same year with the role of Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of protagonist Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese's biographical black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Margot Robbie is funny, hard and kills every scene she's in.
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Margot Robbie was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and won the Empire Award for Best Newcomer.
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Margot Robbie later said that the fame and attention the movie brought her led her to consider quitting acting, but her mother was philosophical about her profession and explained to her, that it was probably too late to quit, she fully understood and stuck with it.
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Margot Robbie was founded in 2014 and its name was inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
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Margot Robbie followed this with Craig Zobel's post-apocalyptic drama Z for Zachariah opposite Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor, in her first leading role.
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In preparation for the film, Margot Robbie dyed her hair brown and learned to speak in an Appalachian accent.
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The Big Short was a commercial and critical success and Margot Robbie's cameo became a trending topic six years later, in the wake of the GameStop short squeeze, as her explanation provided reference points for what was happening with the GameStop and related stocks.
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In 2016, Margot Robbie reunited with Ficarra and Requa, playing a British war correspondent in the film adaptation of The Taliban Shuffle called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, co-starring Tina Fey and Martin Freeman.
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Later that year, Margot Robbie took on the part of Jane Porter in David Yates's adventure film The Legend of Tarzan.
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Margot Robbie became the first person to portray DC Comics villain Harley Quinn in live-action when she signed on to David Ayer's 2016 superhero film Suicide Squad alongside an ensemble cast that included Will Smith, Jared Leto and Viola Davis.
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Margot Robbie admitted to having never read the comics, but felt a huge responsibility to do the character justice and satisfy the fans.
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Margot Robbie began preparing for the role of the supervillainess six months prior to the film shoot; her schedule consisted of gymnastics, boxing, aerial silk training and learning how to hold her breath underwater for five minutes.
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Margot Robbie performed the majority of her own stunts in the film.
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Suicide Squad was a commercial success and was tenth-highest-grossing film of 2016 with global revenues of $746.8 million, and Margot Robbie's performance was considered its prime asset.
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In October 2016, Margot Robbie hosted the season 42 premiere of NBC's late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live; her appearances included a parody of Ivanka Trump.
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In preparation, Margot Robbie met with Harding, watched old footage and interviews of her, worked with a voice coach to speak in Harding's Pacific Northwest accent and vocal timbre at different ages, and underwent several months of rigorous skating instruction with choreographer Sarah Kawahara.
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Margot Robbie received numerous accolades for her performance, including nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, all for Best Actress.
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Margot Robbie became the first actress to receive an Oscar nomination for portraying a real-life Olympic athlete.
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Margot Robbie began 2018 with the voice role of Flopsy Rabbit in Peter Rabbit, a computer-animated comedy from director Will Gluck, which is based on the Beatrix Potter book series.
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Margot Robbie initially turned down the role for being "terrified" of not living up to the history of portrayals of the Queen.
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Margot Robbie began executive producing the comedy series Dollface, which aired on Hulu from 2019 to 2022.
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Margot Robbie began the new decade by reprising the role of Harley Quinn in Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey.
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Margot Robbie spent the subsequent three years developing the project under her production company, making a concerted effort to hire a female director and screenwriter.
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Margot Robbie served as a producer on Promising Young Woman, a comedy thriller by writer-director Emerald Fennell.
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In 2021, Margot Robbie reprised her voice role as Flopsy Rabbit in Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, released a year later due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Margot Robbie made her third outing as Harley Quinn in the standalone sequel to Suicide Squad, called The Suicide Squad, written and directed by James Gunn.
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In 2022, Margot Robbie reprised her role as Donna Freedman for the final episode of Neighbours.
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Margot Robbie starred alongside an ensemble cast in David O Russell's period comedy Amsterdam, based on the 1933 Business Plot.
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Margot Robbie described LaRoy as "the most physically and emotionally draining character I've ever played".
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Margot Robbie received another Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
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Margot Robbie began 2023 with a small role in Wes Anderson's ensemble film Asteroid City.
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Margot Robbie moved from Melbourne to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the early 2010s.
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Margot Robbie met British assistant director Tom Ackerley on the set of Suite Francaise in 2013.
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Margot Robbie is an outspoken fan of heavy metal music and cites Slipknot, Bullet for My Valentine, Silverstein, Metallica, Kiss, and Aerosmith as some of her favourite bands.
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Margot Robbie has been a vocal supporter of human rights, women's rights, gender equality and LGBT rights.
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In 2016, Margot Robbie joined other celebrities and UN Refugee Agency staff in a petition aiming to gather public support for the growing number of families forced to flee conflict and persecution worldwide.
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In October 2016, while hosting Saturday Night Live, Margot Robbie made a stand for same-sex marriage in her native Australia wearing a T-shirt that read "Say 'I Do' Down Under", with a map of the country in rainbow colours.
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Margot Robbie chose to share the prize with Youngcare, a charity she had previously worked with, and therefore an impact donation was made to fund a project benefiting young people with extensive care needs.
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Margot Robbie is known for starring in both high-profile, mainstream productions and low-budget independent films, in which she has been able to display both her dramatic and comedic range.
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Margot Robbie was the last brand ambassador picked by Karl Lagerfeld before his death in February 2019.
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Margot Robbie has received two Academy Award nominations: Best Actress for I, Tonya and Best Supporting Actress for Bombshell.
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Margot Robbie has been nominated for five British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globes and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Margot Robbie has won two AACTA Awards: Best International Lead Actress for I, Tonya and Best International Supporting Actress for Mary, Queen of Scots.