Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress and producer who has become one of the most commercially successful performers in modern cinema. Her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, has positioned her as a creative force behind the camera as well as in front of it, producing critically acclaimed films like Promising Young Woman and the record-breaking Barbie, which grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide in 2023.
Born on July 2, 1990, in Dalby, a small rural town in Queensland, Australia, Robbie grew up on a farm with her mother and three siblings. She moved to Melbourne at 17 to pursue acting and landed a role on the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played Donna Freedman from 2008 to 2011. The show served as a proving ground, giving her years of on-camera experience before she made the leap to Hollywood at age 21.
Her breakout came opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), where she played Naomi Lapaglia with a fearlessness that immediately set her apart. The performance led to a rapid ascent through Hollywood, with roles in Focus (2015), The Legend of Tarzan (2016), and Suicide Squad (2016) as Harley Quinn. Her portrayal of the iconic DC villain became a cultural phenomenon, spawning a standalone film, Birds of Prey (2020), and a return in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (2021).
Robbie earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress with I, Tonya (2017), in which she played disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding. She performed many of her own skating sequences for the role. Her second Oscar nomination came as a producer on Promising Young Woman (2020), which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She appeared as Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and received a third nomination for Bombshell (2019). The Barbie film, which she also produced through LuckyChap, became one of the highest-grossing films of the decade.
Off-screen, Robbie co-founded LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014 with her husband, producer Tom Ackerley, along with partners Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr. The company has focused on telling stories centered on women and underrepresented voices. Robbie and Ackerley married in a private ceremony in Byron Bay, Australia, in December 2016. She is known for her down-to-earth personality despite her global stardom, and she maintains close ties to her Australian roots, frequently returning home between projects.
