Come on Margot, Let’s go Party!

Margot Elise Robbie’s parents divorced when she was a small child. She grew up living with her mother, a physiotherapist, in the Gold Coast area of Australia before moving to Melbourne in her teenage years to pursue acting professionally. She told Vanity Fair that she thought she might be a magician, but an interest in drama in high school led her to a kids’ show, The Elephant Princess, co-starring the up-and-coming Liam Hemsworth. After graduating in 2007 she appeared in two local movies—Vigilante (2008) and I.C.U.(2009)—before the move to Melbourne. In 2008, won a guest role on Neighbours before being promoted to a regular character after her debut. In her three-year stint on the show, she received two Logie Award nominations.

Not long after arriving in Los Angeles Robbie was cast in a major role as a flight attendant in the 1960s-set TV series Pan Am (2011–12), but the show was cancelled after a single season. She then had a small part in the British time-travel movie, About Time before being cast in her breakout role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s trophy wife in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. For the portrayal, she was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and won the Empire Award for Best Newcomer. She later shared 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, to which she agreed and decided to continue.

Robbie met assistant director Tom Ackerley on the World War II-set drama Suite Francaise in 2014. The two began dating and eventually got married in December 2016. With the aim to produce more female-driven projects, Robbie and Tom Ackerley and their respective longtime friends, Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara, started their own production company LuckyChap Entertainment with the name inspired by Charlie Chaplin.

In 2015 Robbie starred in the postapocalyptic drama Z for Zachariah and appeared opposite Will Smith in Focus as con artists who steal each other’s hearts. However, that year she gained the most notice for her uncredited appearance in The Big Short.

In 2016 Robbie played a British TV reporter in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot set during the Afghanistan War and starred as Jane in The Legend of Tarzan. But her most notable role that year was that of Harley Quinn, the psychotic girlfriend of the Joker in Suicide Squad. The following year Margot took on her first leading role as Olympic ice-skating star Tonya Harding for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Praise followed for Mary Queen of Scots alongside Saoirse Ronan and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017 and she was ranked as one of the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes in 2019.

In 2019 Margot starred as a bank robber in Dreamland, which she produced through LuckyChap Entertainment. For her role as an ambitious Fox News star in Bombshell Robbie earnt a second Oscar nod. She then returned to play Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey 2020 and then in The Suicide Squad the following year. In 2021 the actress lent her voice to the family comedy Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

Nest was Amsterdam, a social satire about a fascist conspiracy to overturn the U.S. government in the 1930s followed by Babylon set in Hollywood in the 1920s.

In 2022 Margot reprised her role as Donna Freedman for the final episode of Neighbours.

This month Margot is back starring as Barbie; yes, everyone’s favourite childhood doll is getting her very own big-budget live-action film. And if starring as Barbie isn’t enough, Margot is also producing the film in partnership with Mattel and Warner Bros whilst director Greta Gerwig is at the helm, having co-written the script with partner Noah Baumbach. The Hollywood flick will give a rom-com twist on the iconic doll by Mattel and feature all your favourite characters including blonde bombshell Barbie and her toyboy Ken. In cinemas this month, this is a chick flick you don’t want to miss.