Few actors have experienced a rise as meteoric as Margot Robbie’s. Hailing from Queensland, Australia, Robbie captured international attention with her fearless performance opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street and quickly became one of the most sought-after talents in Hollywood. Over the past decade, she’s not only proven her versatility — from portraying Tonya Harding to the world’s most famous doll in Barbie — but also cemented her influence behind the camera through her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment.
She is a massive Harry Potter fan
Margot Robbie has said several times that she is a Harry Potter fan, even saying that she even plays Legacy. Actually, she also has revealed that her husband, Tom Ackerley, was an extra as a kid on the Harry Potter franchise.
Her Zodiac sign is Cancer but she doesn’t identify as one
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In an interview with W magazine, alongside Ryan Gosling, Robbie said that while her zodiac sign is Cancer, she doesn’t feel like one. “I don’t know much about astrology, but, as far as I’m aware, the main traits of cancer are that you’re very emotional and homebody, and I don’t feel like either of those things,” she explained.
She likes to do her own stunts
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While Margot Robbie isn’t Tom Cruise, she isn’t afraid of learning new skills if her characters need it. For example, to play the titular role in “I, Tonya,” for which she received an Academy Award nomination, she did her own skating, including high kicks and more (still, two skating doubles were used for the more difficult jumps). Meanwhile, for “Suicide Squad,” she learned how to hold her breath for five minutes underwater, as well as the rollerskating scene in “Birds of Prey.”
She doesn’t consider herself as a method actor
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Method acting is one of the most controversial acting techniques, in which the actor identifies themselves with the character. While many stars have embraced it, it seems like Robbie isn’t one of them.
When asked about it during her Vogue’s 73 Questions Interview, she said that she is not a method actor but she finds herself sometimes “behaving like her character after a while.”
She misses the thunderstorms when she is not in Australia
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Margot Robbie was born in Dalby, Queensland, Australia. However, she moved to the United States to pursue her career in Hollywood in 2011. As an actor, she is used to traveling to several countries, but she still misses her home, sometimes.
And what is what she misses the most about Australia when she isn’t there? According to what she said during Vogue’s 73 Questions interview, it is the thunderstorms. On the contrary, when she is in Australia, she says that she misses the “convenience” of America. “I feel like everything opens so late here,” she explained.
She and her husband were friends for years before dating
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Robbie gave a rare glimpse into the start of their relationship in a 2016 interview with Vogue. “The idea of relationships made me want to vomit,” she told the publication. “And then this crept up on me. We were friends for so long. I was always in love with him, but I thought, ‘Oh, he would never love me back. Don’t make it weird, Margot. Don’t be stupid and tell him that you like him.’ And then it happened, and I was like, ‘Of course we’re together. This makes so much sense, the way nothing has ever made sense before,’” she added.
Her favorite accent to do is a Brooklyn accent
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While speaking to Variety, Robbie revealed that her favorite accent to do is a Brooklyn one because it’s easier for her. “I find a Brooklyn accent far easier to do than other American regions because dropping the ‘r’ is something we do in Australia as well. An, actually, hitting a hard r is hard work for my mouth.”
She says she isn’t a good surfer
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Among the sports that Robbie practices, we can include surfing. Which it’s something that you would expect, as she is from Australia. However, the actress has revealed that she isn’t particularly good when it comes to surfing, even saying that she is a “two” out of ten… Still, she enjoys it.
She worked as sandwich artist on Subway
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Like many Hollywood stars, Robbie had “normal” jobs before becoming an actress. And one of them was working as a sandwich artist for Subway. During her visit to popular show Hot Ones, Robbie said that she made herself the most bizarre sandwiches because she wanted to try every different variation.
She said that she thought he was very good at that job. “I, you know, really spread everything out to the edges evenly, the right amount of everything…”, she said, before admitting that she doesn’t go to Subway anymore because she gets frustrated when they don’t make her sandwiches right.
She played for an Ice Hockey Team
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Margot Robbie isn’t someone who is afraid of a challenge, as she has proven by taking some characters, such as Harley Quinn and Barbie, and making them her own. And she did the same as a young girl, competing in several sports, one of them being ice hockey.
Speaking to MTV, the star explained that she was a fan of the sport, even though in her town in Australia there wasn’t any ice. “So, I played field hockey,” she said. “But then when I moved to America, I was finally able to join a team [of ice hockey] once I wasn’t contracted to a show. When I was contracted to a show, I wasn’t able to play. I was living in New York, and the Rangers were my default team. They’re the best team ever,” she added.
She is allergic to chicken eggs
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Robbie has also revealed that she is allergic to chicken eggs, saying that she gets migraine when she eats them. So, while visiting Hot Ones, she said that, in order to make the scene where Harley Quinn eats egg sandwiches in ‘Birds of Prey,’ they had to make them with duck eggs.
Margot Robbie had a very romantic first kiss
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Talking with W, Robbie revealed how her first kiss went out. “My first kiss was on an island off Australia called Great Keppel Island, which is where, like a bunch of families would all go on holiday and I met the boy that I kissed on the beach,” she told the publication.
“Like, it really does sound idyllic. It was pretty cool. I never saw him again and I remember going through the phone book trying to find him so I could call him and I never found him, and I was devastated. And then in high school, I walked into a house party and he was standing at the top of the stairs. He was like, ‘Margot?’ I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness,’” she said.
She has a big family
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Her father, Doug Robbie, was a former farm owner and sugarcane tycoon, and her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist. Margot is the second youngest of four siblings: older siblings Anya and Lachlan, and younger brother Cameron. Her parents separated when she was five years old. However, her parents separated when she was five years old.
Her first cinematic crush was Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
In an interview with W magazine, while promoting Barbie, Robbie was asked who was her first cinematic crush. The actress revealed that Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” franchise.
She one win a bolognese eating competition
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When she visited Hot Ones, Robbie confirmed that she once ate four pounds of pasta to win an eating contest. “Yes, I once ate four pounds of spaghetti bolognaise in an hour, that was the time frame,” she said. “I was really sick. It was a lot of spaghetti. It was a bucket of spaghetti.” Luckily, she won.
She has made voice overs and didn’t actually like it
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Margot Robbie had a voice role as Flopsy Rabbit in “Peter Rabbit” and “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.” However, she revealed that she found the experience of voicing a character “isolating,” and realized that it wasn’t her medium, as she needed to be on set with other actors.
She told Variety, “Like, I really need to be with other actors and being in a recording booth, you’re your own. It’s interesting and it’s fun because you do what you normally do but in a different set of circumstances.”
She got into comic books after playing Harley Quinn
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Speaking to Variety, she said that playing Harley Quinn made her get into comics “because they’re so good. And comic books as a medium is a fascinating art form, and so fun as an audience, as a reader. Yeah, I love the comics.”
She was the 2023 highest-paid actress
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She was named by Forbes as the world’s highest-paid actress in 2023, with earnings of $78 million. In 2019, the magazine also ranked her among the world’s highest-paid actresses, with annual earnings of $23.5 million.
She doesn’t think she looks that much like Emma Mackey
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For “Barbie,” Robbie worked with Emma Mackey (known for her role of Maeve in Netflix’s teen hit series “Sex Education”). The Internet has been claiming that the actresses look like twins, but Robbie realized that it wasn’t the case. “We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar, and then when we were dressed up kind of as Barbies, we were kind of like ‘we actually don’t look very similar,’” she revealed in an interview with BuzzFeed while promoting the film.
She started her acting career in a soap opera
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Before becoming a Hollywood starlet, Margot Robbie started her career working in a commercial for restaurant chain, as she said in an interview with W. However, she then had her first big role in a soap opera called “Neighbours” when she was 17 years old. However, the way she got the role wasn’t as you would expect.
According to what Robbie has said, she actually called the company behind the production. “I wasn’t discovered as much as I forced my way onto a job essentially because I just wouldn’t stop calling [the casting agent] Fremantle media which is the company that runs ‘Neighbours’,” she told Variety
She and her husband started their own production company
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Robbie and Ackerley co-founded a production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, in 2014 with Josey McNamara and Robbie’s childhood friend Sophia Kerr. They have produced films such as “I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman,” “Barbie,” “Saltburn,” “Dreamland,” and “Birds of Prey.”
“I didn’t have a cherished ambition of producing per se, but I wanted to be more involved in filmmaking, make my own things. That’s how I thought it in my head. I want to make my own things, without exactly realizing what the role of producer entailed. Back in my 20s, I just knew that I wanted to be more involved because I love all the aspects of putting a film together,” she told Variety.
