Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990, in Dalby, Queensland, Australia. She is an Australian actress and producer known for her work in both blockbuster and independent films. She began her career in 2008 on the television series Neighbours, where she was a regular until 2011.

After moving to the United States, she led the television series Pan Am from 2011 to 2012 and had her breakthrough in 2013 with Martin Scorsese's comedy film The Wolf of Wall Street. She achieved wider recognition with starring roles as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan in 2016 and as Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe films beginning with Suicide Squad in 2016.

Margot Robbie received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of figure skater Tonya Harding in the biopic I, Tonya in 2017. This acclaim continued for her performances as Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Queen of Scots in 2018, Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019, and a Fox News employee in Bombshell in 2019.

The last of these earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Margot Robbie has since starred as an aspiring actress in the period film Babylon in 2022 and the titular fashion doll in the fantasy comedy Barbie in 2023, which emerged as her highest-grossing release and, as its producer, earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

She and her husband, filmmaker Tom Ackerley, co-founded the production company LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014, under which they have produced several films, including I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman in 2020, Barbie, and Saltburn in 2023, as well as the Hulu series Dollface from 2019 to 2022 and the Netflix miniseries Maid in 2021.

Margot Robbie was born to Doug Robbie, a former farm-owner and sugarcane tycoon, and Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist. She is the second youngest of four siblings, with older siblings Anya and Lachlan and a younger brother Cameron.

Her parents separated when she was five, and Robbie and her siblings were raised by their single mother. The family spent the majority of her upbringing on her grandparents' Currumbin Valley farm in the Gold Coast hinterland.

An energetic child, she often put on shows in her house and was enrolled in a circus school by her mother, where she excelled in trapeze. She married Tom Ackerley in 2016, and they are expecting their first child in 2024. Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Academy Award nominations, seven British Academy Film Award nominations, four Golden Globe Award nominations, and eight Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

She has also been recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017 and was named the world's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2023.