Margot Robbie

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Margot Robbie is an Australian actress who has moved to the U.S

Jul 2, 1990

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: July 2, 1990
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Famous: Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses
  • Spouses: Tom Ackerley
  • Siblings: Cameron Robbie
  • Known as: Margot Elise Robbie
  • Universities:
    • Somerset College

Margot Robbie born at

Dalby, Australia

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Birth Place

Margot Robbie and her siblings were raised by her single mother. On her mother's 60th birthday, as a gift, she paid off the entire mortgage of the house her mother lives in.

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Personal Life

In 2014, she got into a relationship with Tom Ackerley. They met on the sets of 'Suite Française', for which Ackerley served as the third assistant director. They got married in a low profile private ceremony in Byron Bay in December 2016.

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Personal Life

Margot Robbie was born on 2 July 1990, in Dalby, Queensland, Australia. She grew up in Gold Coast and moved to Melbourne in her teenage years to pursue acting professionally.

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Childhood & Early Life

Her mother, Sarie Kessler is a physiotherapist, and her father Doug Robbie, is a sugarcane tycoon. Her father left them when she was an infant and hence her relationship with her father is strained.

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Childhood & Early Life

She, along with her three siblings, was raised by her mother and grandparents in their farm. She has an older brother Lachlan, younger brother Cameron and a sister, Anya.

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Childhood & Early Life

She has worked in the farm and even did three jobs at the age of 16 to support her family. She loved spending her free time surfing or hunting wild pigs on the farm.

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Childhood & Early Life

Margot Robbie started her acting career in 2007 with two independent Australian films directed by Aash Aaron. While the action feature film 'Vigilante' was released in 2008, the thriller film 'I.C.U.' was not released until 2009.

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Career

In 2008, she appeared as a guest in two episodes of the Australian children's television series 'The Elephant Princess'. The same year, she also made guest appearance in another TV series, 'City Homicide', and worked on a number of commercials.

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Career

Her first big break also came in the form of a guest role initially. In June 2008, she appeared as Donna Freedman on the Australian soap opera 'Neighbours'. However, her performance impressed the producers enough to make her role a regular one. She appeared on the show till January 2011. She returned to the series in 2015 for a special documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of the show.

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Career

In 2011, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a Hollywood career, and auditioned for the new series of 'Charlie's Angels'. Instead, she was offered the role of Laura Cameron, a newly trained flight attendant, in the ABC drama series 'Pan Am'.

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Career

She got her first big movie role in 2012, in the romantic comedy film 'About Time'. The movie, which released in 2013, featured Robbie alongside stars like Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.

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Career

Margot Robbie got recognition for her role in the critically and commercially successful movie, 'The Wolf of Wall Street', in which she played Leonardo DiCaprio's wife. The film grossed $392 million worldwide, becoming director Scorsese's highest-grossing film.

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Major Works

She is best known for playing the role of the DC villain Harley Quinn in the movie 'Suicide Squad'. The movie was successful at the box office, grossing a worldwide total of $745.6 million. While the film disappointed many critics, Robbie's performance was praised and earned her awards and nominations.

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Major Works