Margot Robbie, from Queensland, was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2023 and has three Academy Award nominations.
From the Gold Coast to Hollywood
Margot Elise Robbie was born on 2 July 1990 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. She began on the Australian soap Neighbours (2008–2011), then moved to the United States for Pan Am (2011–2012) before her breakthrough in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
Roles and Nominations
She played Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021). Academy Award nominations came for I, Tonya (2017) and Bombshell (2019), and as a producer of Barbie (2023), in which she played the title role.
Producer
With her husband, filmmaker Tom Ackerley, she co-founded LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014. The company has produced I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman, Barbie and Saltburn, and she produced and starred in Wuthering Heights (2026). Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in 2017.
Advocacy and Industry Work
Robbie is a supporter of human rights, women’s rights, gender equality and LGBTQ rights. Through LuckyChap, she and her co-founders Tom Ackerley, Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara focus on projects that promote female voices. She has said little about her private life despite media attention.
Image: Margot Robbie at San Diego Comic-Con, 23 July 2016 (file photo). Photo: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
