In her three-year stint on the soap, she received two Logie Award nominations. In June 2008, she began playing Donna Freedman, a role that was meant to be a guest character, but Robbie was promoted to the regular cast after she made her debut. "One day, I got put through by accident to the casting director for Neighbours," and she said, "I'm in town working on something." The casting director asked how old she was, and she responded "seventeen." She was told, "We're looking for exactly that, come in and audition" for the television soap opera Neighbours. With agent encouragement at the time and as Robbie recalled on The Graham Norton Show, she called FremantleMedia on a daily basis. She 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. She described the experience of being on a film set as "a dream come true". She starred in two low-budget independent thriller films, called Vigilante and I.C.U., both released years later. Robbie's first acting roles came when she was in high school. Career 2008–2012: Early work and Neighbours Robbie at the 2011 Logie Awards After graduation, with a few commercials and independent thriller films on her résumé, Robbie relocated to Melbourne to begin acting professionally. As a teenager, she worked three jobs simultaneously: she tended a bar, cleaned houses, and worked at Subway. In high school, Robbie studied drama at Somerset College. She was enrolled in a circus school by her mother, where she excelled in trapeze, in which she received a certificate at age eight. An energetic child, Robbie often put on shows in her house. The family spent the majority of Robbie's upbringing on her grandparents' Currumbin Valley farm in the Gold Coast hinterland. Robbie and her siblings were raised by their single mother and had minimal contact with their father. She is the second youngest of four older siblings Anya and Lachlan and younger brother Cameron. 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. Robbie and her husband, filmmaker Tom Ackerley, co-founded the production company Luck圜hap Entertainment in 2014, under which they have produced several films, including 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). Robbie has since starred as an aspiring actress in the period film Babylon (2022) and the titular fashion doll in the comedy Barbie (2023), which emerged as her highest-grossing release and as its producer, earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The last of these earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This acclaim continued for her performances as Queen 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). 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 (2017). She achieved wider recognition with starring roles as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe films, beginning with Suicide Squad (2016). After moving to America, she led the television series Pan Am (2011–2012) and had her breakthrough in 2013 with Martin Scorsese’s comedy film The Wolf of Wall Street. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017, and Forbes named her one of the world's highest-paid actresses in 2019.īorn and raised in Queensland, Robbie began her career in 2008 on the television series Neighbours, on which she was a regular until 2011. Known for her work in both blockbuster and independent films, she has received various accolades, including nominations for three Academy Awards, six BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. 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.
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