Why it's go, go, go for Margot

MASSIVE WORK ETHIC OF STAR AS SHE HITS 30

- JAMES DESBOROUGH

YOU’VE got to hand it to Margot Robbie... she’s 30 on Thursday and has already packed an acting lifetime into barely 12 years.

The star of such hits as Bombshell and Suicide Squad has gone from couch-surfing as a jobbing actress in Australia to working alongside superstars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt.

She even runs her own production company worth an estimated £25million – and it’s all down to determination to succeed and a work ethic she honed on hit soap Neighbours.

The Aussie says playing girl-next-door Donna Brown on Ramsay Street was a vital part of her ride to crack Tinseltown.

Margot says: “Neighbours is like boot camp. It is a rite of passage.

“There were 30 cast members from eight to 70 and you all stay in one room together. It’s not like America where you have trailers and omelette chefs.

INFLUENTIAL

“I remember asking, ‘Do you do just this job? And you can support a family and send your kids to school and pay off your mortgage just by acting?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah’. I thought, ‘Well then, I want to do that. I’ll just do acting then’.”

Last year Margot was voted one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine after a 2020 Academy Award nomination for Bombshell, about sex harassment in the US media.

This year, as the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Margot starred once more as the anti-hero Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey.

Next year, she will reprise the role for the Suicide Squad sequel, will be the voice of Flopsy in Peter Rabbit 2 and is set to film a screen version of Barbie.