Margot Elise Robbie is a famed Australian actress and film maker renowned for her competence in playing a variety of roles and scene killing prowess. Robbie is as well among the highest-paid actresses globally.
The Australian star has won a number of awards including four Critics’ Choice Awards and seven AACTA Awards. In 2017, she featured in Time’s 100 most influential people in the world.
Robbies is as well in to film production and together with her husband own LuckyChap Entertainment, a production company they established in 2014.
Age and Birthday
Robbie was born on 2 July 1990 in Dalby, Queensland in Australia and she is 34 years old in 2024.
Margot Robbie Husband
Robbie is happily married to a British film producer Tom Ackerley since 2016. The couple is reportedly expecting their first child.
Margot Robbie Family
Parents
The film maker’s parents are Sarie Kessler (mother) a physiotherapist and Doug Robbie (father) a former sugarcane farm owner.
However, her parents separated while she was still very young and together with her siblings brought up single-handedly by their mother with little contact from the father. For the larger part of Robbie’s childhood the family lived in their grandparents’ farm in Currumbin Valley, Gold Coast hinterland.
Siblings
Margot is the third-born in a four sibling family of two boys and two girls. Her older siblings are Anya (sister) and Lachlan (brother) with their youngest brother named Cameron.
Margot Robbie Career
Early stages: 2007-2012
Robbie started acting at high school where she casted in independent films Vigilante and I.C.U. Her maiden television feature was in 2007 in a drama series City Homicide where she casted as Caitlin Brentford. Subsequently, she casted in a children television series, The Elephant Princess.
She initially casted for a guest role before landing a regular one on the television soap opera Neighbours (2008-2011). Robbie obtained two Logie Award nominations for her marvelous accomplishment. She then relocated to the United States to follow her acting career in Hollywood. Margot landed a major role a television drama series Pan Am (2011-2012) where she casted as a flight attendant.
Breakthrough and global fame: 2013-2014
She made her breakthrough in 2013 when she casted as Naomi Lapaglia in a black comedy film The Wolf of Wall Street. Following her outstanding performance, she was nominated for a number of awards including Breakthrough Performance MTV Movie Award. In the same year, she featured in a romantic drama film About Time (2013).
In 2014, Together with her husband and two of their close friends, they co-founded a production company, LuckyChap Entertainment. Among the films produced by the company include; I, Tonya and Promising Young Woman (2020), Netflix miniseries Maid (2021) and Barbie (2023).
Global fame: 2015-2018
In 2015, she featured in a romantic comedy drama film Focus (2015) getting nomination for the British Academy Film Awards’ Rising Star Award. This was followed by romantic drama film Suite Francaise (2015) and science fiction film Z for Zachariah (2015).
Margot gained more fame with her roles in The Big Short (2015), The Legend of Tarzan (2016) and Suicide Squad (2016). The latter proved a huge success and ranked as the 2016 tenth highest grossing film. Robbie won the Favorite Action Movie Actress and Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie.
Robbie’s performance as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya (2017) earned her worldwide applause as well as an Academy Award for Best Actress. Notably, the film was LuckyChap Entertainments’ maiden production. She received widespread acclaim for in her voice role in an animated comedy Peter Rabbit (2018). She also did extremely well in Mary Queen of Scots (2018) and Once upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Robbie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her excellent work in the drama film Bombshell (2019).
Recognized actress and film producer: 2020-present
In 2020, her performance as Harley Quinn in superhero film Birds of Prey received a lot of praise together with two People’s Choice Awards nominations. Margot as well produced comedy thriller Promising Young Woman (2020) with the film receiving nomination for Academy Award for Best Picture. The following year, Robbie resumed her voice role in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway and casted in The Suicide Squad. She was the executive producer for Netflix miniseries Maid (2021) and casted in comedy drama film Babylon (2022).
Robbie co-starred with Ryan Gosling in the fantasy drama Barbie (2023) her highest grossing film. Being the producer, she was nominated for the Academy Award of the Best Picture as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for her outstanding performance. Her other recent products are comedies Saltburn (2023) and My Old Ass (2024).
Margot Robbie Net Worth
The celebrated Australian actress and filmmaker has an estimated net worth of $70 million in 2024.