How much is Margot Robbie worth?
| Net Worth: | $35 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | July 2, 1990 (age 32) |
| Country: | Australia |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
About Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie is an internationally popular Australian actress and film producer. She was born on July 2, 1990 and made her acting debut in 2008. Ten years later she was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of “Best Actress” for I, Tonya, two years later she was nominated again for Bombshell.
Robbie is actually a brunette, but started sporting blonde hair after it was noted that she was more commercially viable as an actress as a blonde for potential upcoming roles. She has maintained the look and nowadays most people simply consider her to be a natural blonde.
Besides being one of the world’s highest-paid actresses, she is also one of the most influential people in the world. She was named in Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” issue with an homage to her written by Martin Scorsese.
She was born in Dalby, Queensland and is of of Scottish and German descent. The Aussie studied drama at her school and graduated at the Somerset College. At the young age of 16, Margot was required to work different jobs to make ends meet.
Robbie has an older sister, Anya Robbie, as well as an older brother, Lachlan Robbie, and a younger brother, Cameron Robbie. She and her siblings were raised by a single mother, Sarie Kessler, and without much contact with her father, Doug Robbie.
Growing up Margot worked three jobs while simultaneously studying at Somerset College in Queensland including retail, secretary work, selling surfboards, and making sandwiches at Subway.
A year later, at the age of 17, she moved to Melbourne to further pursue her acting career. At the beginning of her young career, the aspiring actress also took part in many commercials. As well as had guest roles in the children television series The Elephant Princess (2008) and the television drama series City Homicide (2007).
Margot Robbie originally became recognized in Australia when she was cast as Donna Freedman in Neighbours. Robbie’s role in the Australian soap opera was originally only to be a guest role. However the series writers and production group were so impressed by her that they wrote her in until she became a series regular.
Her character, Donna Freedman, was one of the first bisexual characters portrayed on Australian television. It was quite edgy at the time especially when she shared an on-screen kiss with female co-star, Hany Lee.
She appeared on the Australian series from 2008 to 2011. Her first two film roles, Australian films Vigilante (2008) and I.C.U. (2009) she was cast in without an agent. In 2009, she improved her acting skills further participating in various Network Ten promotions, which also helped her gain more attention in her home country. It didn’t take too long for her to find international success, either. She was soon nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award in the category “Favorite Hottie”, in which she was up against Dean Geyer.
Five days after her Neighbours contact ended in 2011, Margot moved to the United States and began auditioning for different acting roles. Upon her arrival in Los Angeles, she auditioned for the new hit series Charlie’s Angels, however, the Sony Pictures Television’s producers decided she would be better for the drama series Pan Am, instead.
“I learned a lot about pain and suffering during ‘Pan Am.’ We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments,” Margot Robbie has said.
Despite receiving positive reviews from the critics, the show was shortly canceled after its first season had ended. In 2013, Margot appeared in About Time, a romantic comedy, which was her first acting job in an American film. The film was very successful receiving positive reviews and did well at the box office, grossing $88.5 million from a $12 million dollar budget.
Margot Robbie’s international breakthrough came that same year when she was cast as Naomi in the widely-known film, The Wolf on Wall Street. “‘Wolf of Wall Street’ opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities,” Robbie has said.
In Martin Scorsese’s film, she portrayed the character of Naomi – the wife of the main character Jordan Belfort, played by megastar Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie was an international success and it amassed $392 million at the global box office, becoming the director’s highest-grossing film.
After Wall Street, Margot Robbie was vying for the role of Sam Thomson in the Oscar-winning film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). Ultimately the role went to Emma Stone. However soon Margot was cast in the comedy-drama film, Focus where she starred opposite Will Smith. Besides the generally mixed reviews, Margot’s performance was praised by many and she received her first nomination for a BAFTA Award in the category of “Rising Star”.
Robbie was actually backpacking in Europe when she got the call for a final audition for Focus. She went from the island of Hvar, to Croatia, to Paris, to New York City in 48 hours and fortunately arrive with hours to spare. The other part though, was that the airline lost her luggage in transit so she had to buy brand new outfits just before the audition.
The movie that further elevated Margot Robbie’s acting career was 2016 super villain film The Suicide Squad, in which she played the role of the world-renowned character Harley Quinn. She had auditioned for the role of Sue Storm in Fantastic Four, but that role went to Kate Mara instead. She also auditioned for the title role in Cinderella before Lily James was cast. Robbie was later cast as Harley Quinn (aka Dr. Harleen Quinzel).
To get into her full character including all of the makeup took over three hours. Her physical transformation included having her skin painted white, applying 20 temporary tattoos, Harley Quinn’s wig, and getting into her elaborate costume.
In Suicide Squad, Robbie performed the majority of her own stunts. Apparently her stunt double spent more time sitting around in the trailer than actually performing stunts, according to the director David Ayer. It has also been said that Margot Robbie can tolerate a lot and play difficult and diverse roles. David Ayer spoke to this during the San Diego Comic-Con International 2016, saying that it was “a blessing” to have Robbie on board as Harley Quinn because not many actresses would have tolerated what she went through to prepare for and perform the role.
For example, Robbie began training for shooting Suicide Squad six months prior. She did incredibly hard and intense training routines including gymnastics, boxing, weapons training, aerial silk training, and learning to hold her breath underwater for extended periods of time. To further prepare for her role as Dr. Harleen Quinzel she researched Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) testing to understand how mental illnesses are diagnosed. She used her newly attained knowledge and applied it to her reactions when she dealt with a character like ‘the Joker’.
She also leaned on her skills learned from the days when she was taking circus classes at 8 years old in Australia. She earned a trapeze certificate at the time and revisited the skills for her role as Harley Quinn almost two decades later.
The creator of Harley Quinn, Paul Dini thought very highly of Margot’s performance of the character. “She nailed it perfectly,” Dini has said. The movie was star-packed and Robbie joined the company of some widely-known actors such as Will Smith, Jared Leto, and Ben Affleck. When it came to her scenes with Jared Leto as The Joker there were no rehearsals because David Ayer wanted to add unpredictability to the madness of the scene. There was already a 19 year age difference, and with no rehearsals, it really made the scene more edgy and exciting.
In 2017, Margot starred in the film I, Tonya. For her portrayal of the protagonist Tonya Harding, the actress received several nominations, including an Academy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Award. To prepare for the part, Robbie learned how to skate for three months. Of course when it came to landing a triple axel jump, only 8 women in history have landed it in competition. In this case, CGI was used to replicate it.
In 2019, Robbie appeared alongside Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which follows the story of an actor and his stunt double. The movie was one of the most successful movies from 2019 grossing $374.6 million worldwide. It received 10 nominations for Academy Awards with two wins. For the movie, Margot played the role of Sharon Tate, for which she was widely praised.
Also in 2019, Robbie took part in another successful film, the drama Bombshell (2019) with co-stars Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman. She was once again nominated for an Academy, and Golden Globe Award. She then began the new decade by producing Promising Young Woman, a drama thriller film that followed the life of a young woman and the mysterious events that followed.
Robbie’s Total Net Worth
Margot Robbie has had annual earnings reported to be as high as $23.5 million in recent years, much of which, has been earned from her endorsements, notably from the Calvin Klein Deep Euphoria fragrance campaign. In Hollywood, with a leading role in one of 2016’s top earning films, Suicide Squad, and Academy Award nominations in 2018 and 2020, Robbie has become one of the most bankable actresses. In total, it is estimated that her career income has been around $75 million dollars.
Of that amount, $8-9 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $66.5 million, will have been taxed at around 49% as Robbie has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $33.91 million dollars, having paid $32.59 million dollars in taxes.
Despite her growing net worth, it has been noted that Robbie does not spent a great deal of her money and for many years preferred to live with roommates to save money. She was roommates with Christina Ricci while filming the short-lived ABC series Pan Am (2011). More recently however, she has invested in real estate.
Like many high net worth Australian nationals, when Margot Robbie made some money she put it into land and real estate. Investing in real estate is considered by many financial experts to be a smart way of managing one’s finances. While in the United States investing in securities likes stocks has become increasingly popular, both of these asset classes have historically provided some protection against inflation.
After Robbie became a big star in Hollywood and began earnings millions from her movie roles. She made her first publicly known investment into a property in the United States, she she purchased in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. She reportedly paid about $2.7 million for a 3,300 square-foot residence with a wine cellar, a pool, a private balcony, and more.
Then in 2018, for a little less than a million Robbie bought another home in L.A. which she later listed for sale for $1.2 million in 2020. In 2019 she also purchased two houses for family members, one for her sister and another for her mother. She also invested in Australia buying a gated duplex on the Gold Coast for about US$1.8 million.
On the same shopping spree, Robbie purchased a compound in the Venice area of Los Angeles. It is made up of three structures, complete with a swimming pool and with a private surrounding. In her personal life, Robbie met her husband Tom Ackerley on the set of Suite Française (2014) in 2013. He was the third assistant director on that film. They married in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, in 2016.
It is likely that Robbie has spent $2-3 million dollars of her career earnings, including buying property for family members, but also probably possesses assets valued at around $1-2 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $4-5 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Margot Robbie has a net worth of a rounded down $35 million dollars.
Margot Robbie is incredibly rare in what she has accomplished already, since coming to America. Her talent has been undeniably and displayed in some of the most high profile films ever made.
Margot has showed an aptitude and talent not only for acting, but also for the business side of things. “As much as I’d only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that – a business – and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful,” she has said.
Robbie has said that the most stressful part of the business is over box office performance, but the making of movies is something that she thoroughly enjoys. A common trend among some of the most successful in the industry, they love what they do. If you are onset filming a Tarantino movie a common loud and repeated mantra whenever something needs to get reshot – involving as many voices as possible – is, “Why?.. Because We Love Making Movies!”
Robbie has also been successful in increasing her fame and earning more money through her appearances in (and on) various magazines. She appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 20th Anniversary Hollywood Edition, alongside George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Léa Seydoux, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’o, Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, and her Suicide Squad co-star, Jared Leto.
In 2014, Robbie launched her own production company called LuckyChap Entertainment. Based in Los Angeles, and co-founded with Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr. The company describes their focal point as female-focused film and television productions. “If there aren’t roles you want to play, then you’ve kind of got to create them,” Robbie has said.
After she pitched an idea for a Harley Quinn spin-off for the DC Extended Universe and Queen of the Air to Warner Bros in 2015. A deal was signed in 2016 and also included potential other films from her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment. The actress spent more than three years to develop the initial project under her own production company. The film, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020), was finally released to much critical acclaim. It was a notable success financially, as well, earning $201.9 million at the global box office from a $82–100 million dollar budget.
Summing-Up
Margot Robbie is truly unstoppable. The actress took Hollywood by storm and was ranked as one of the highest-paid and most influential actresses, faster than almost any other actress in history. She continues to grow and has a lot of new exciting upcoming projects. In addition to reprising her role as Harley Quinn in The Suicide Squad, she is also working on many other projects such as Bad Monkey, Ruin, and a reboot of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
