Margot Robbie
Margot Elise Robbie born 2 July 1990 is an Australian actress and producer. Known for her work in both blockbuster and independent films. She has received various accolades including nominations for two Academy Awards four Golden Globe Awards and five British Academy Film Awards. 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.
Born and raised in Queensland Robbie began her career in 2008 on the television series Neighbours on which she was a regular until 2011. After moving to America, she led the television series Pan Am 2011–2012 and had her breakthrough in 2013 with the black comedy film The Wolf of Wall Street. She achieved wider recognition with starring roles as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan 2016 and Harley Quinn in the DC superhero films, beginning with Suicide Squad 2016.
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. This acclaim continued with her roles as Queen Elizabeth I in the period drama Mary Queen of Scots 2018. Sharon Tate in the comedy drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 and a fictional Fox News employee in the drama Bombshell 2019 She received BAFTA Award nominations for all three and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the lattermost. Robbie has since starred in the period film Babylon 2022.
Robbie and her husband filmmaker Tom Ackerley co founded the production company LuckyChap Entertainment under which they have produced several films including I Tonya and Promising Young Woman 2020 as well as the Hulu series Dollface 2019–2022 and the Netflix miniseries Maid 2021.
Early life and education
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. She is the second youngest of four older siblings Anya and Lachlan and younger brother Cameron. Her parents separated when she was five. Robbie and her siblings were raised by their single mother and had minimal contact with their father. The family spent the majority of Robbie's upbringing on her grandparents' Currumbin Valley farm in the Gold Coast hinterland. An energetic child Robbie often put on shows in her house.
She was enrolled in a circus school by her mother. Where she excelled in trapeze in which she received a certificate at age eight.In high school Robbie studied drama at Somerset College.As a teenager she worked three jobs simultaneously she tended a bar cleaned houses and worked at Subway.After graduation with a few commercials and independent thriller films on her résumé Robbie relocated to Melbourne to begin acting professionally.
Career
Robbie's first acting roles came when she was in high school. She starred in two low-budget independent thriller films called Vigilante and I.C.U., both released years later. She described the experience of being on a film set as "a dream come true". 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.
With agent encouragement at the time and as Robbie recalled on The Graham Norton Show she called Freemantle Media on a daily basis and this, One day I got put through by accident to the casting director for Neighbours" she said "I'm in town working on something". The casting director asked how old she was seventeen she fired back .We're looking for exactly that.come in and audition for the television soap opera Neighbours. 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. In her three year stint on the soap. she received two Logie Award nominations.
Shortly after arriving in America Robbie landed the role of Laura Cameron, a newly trained flight attendant in the period drama series Pan Am 2011. The series premiered to high ratings and positive reviews but was cancelled after one season due to falling ratings.
Robbie made her feature film debut in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time 2013 co starring Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams. It tells the story of a young man with the ability to time travel who tries to change his past in hopes of improving his future. To play Gleeson's unattainable teenage love interest, she adopted a British accent.The film was a modest critical and commercial success with a reviewer for Variety praising the cast while also criticising the stock characters as being too familiar.
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. Co starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort the film recounts his perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which led to his downfall. In her audition for the role Robbie improvised a slap on DiCaprio during a fight scene which ultimately won her the part. The film and her performance received positive reviews; she was particularly praised for her on-screen Brooklyn accent. Critic Sasha Stone wrote of Robbie's performance, "She's Scorsese's best blonde bombshell discovery since Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull. Robbie is funny, hard and kills every scene she's in."The Wolf of Wall Street was a box office success grossing $392 million worldwide making it Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date. Robbie was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and won the Empire Award for Best Newcomer. She 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. With the aim to produce more female-driven projects, Robbie and her future husband Tom Ackerley and their respective longtime friends Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara, started their own production company LuckyChap Entertainment. The company was founded in 2014 and its name was inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
Robbie appeared in four films released in 2015. The first of these was opposite Will Smith in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's $158.8 million grossing romantic comedy drama film Focus. In the film. She played an inexperienced grifter learning the craft from Smith's character; she learned how to pickpocket from Apollo Robbins for the role. Reviews of the film were generally mixed but Robbie's performance was praised Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote Robbie is wow and then some. Even when Focus fumbles she deals a winning hand." She was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 68th British Academy Film Awards.[31] Her next appearance was alongside Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas in Saul Dibb's war romantic drama Suite Française, a film based on the second part of Irène Némirovsky's 2004 novel of the same name. In the film. She played a woman falling for a German soldier during the German occupation of France during World War II a role which Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter found "underwritten".
She followed this with Craig Zobel's post apocalyptic drama Z for Zachariah opposite Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor in her first leading role. Partially based on Robert C. O'Brien's book of the same name the film follows Ann Burden Robbie as she finds herself in an emotionally charged love triangle with the last known survivors of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization. In preparation for the film Robbie dyed her hair brown and learned to speak in an Appalachian accent.The film received positive reviews and Robbie's performance was widely praised, with Drew McWeeny of HitFix asserting that "Robbie's work here establishes her as one of the very best actresses in her age range today." Her fourth release of 2015 was a cameo appearance in Adam McKay's comedy drama The Big Short in which she breaks the fourth wall to explain subprime mortgages while in a bathtub. The Big Short was a commercial and critical success and 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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