Margot Robbie is one of the most prominent faces in the acting industry, at the moment. Herise r from a small-time soap opera star in her home country of Australia to one of the world's most favorite super-villains has been exceptional. She started gaining worldwide recognition thanks to her portrayal of Naomi Belfort in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013, and the rest is history.

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While Margot has become a powerhouse Hollywood person, there are still stories of her life pre-The Wolf of Wall Street that many casual fans may have not known. She has starred in several projects and made her debut in the U.S. at the age of 21. To sum it up, here's what Margot Robbie's life was like before co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street.

6 Margot Robbie Was Born & Raised In Australia

Margot Robbie was born in an Australian family of a sugarcane tycoon father and a physiotherapist mother in Queensland. She was fascinated with acting at an early age; young Margot would re-enact scenes on TV for her mother, excelled in trapeze at a circus school, and enrolled at Somerset College to study drama. She later relocated to Melbourne to further take her acting career seriously.

"I was obsessed with movies with anything on TV and whatever I saw, I would re-enact it for my mum who had enough on her plate running a house, looking after four kids, and I'd be pulling at her leg, 'Mum... mum watch my new show.' I'd even make my family pay to watch my shows," she recalled

5 Margot Robbie Made A Cameo In A Children TV Series With Liam Hemsworth

While in high school, young Margot Robbie starred in several low-budget thriller films like Vigilante and I.C.U. before making her TV debut in 2008. She starred in City Homicide as one of the guest roles and had a two-episode arc in The Elephant Princess, a children's TV series starring Liam Hemsworth. Both were just starting out at the time, and it's fascinating to see how they've grown as actors!

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4 Margot Robbie Starred In A Soap Opera

Shortly after making her debut in soap opera Neighbours as a guest star in June 2008, the show runners loved her so much that they decided to keep her as a regular. Her character, Donna Freedman, is an obsessive, confident, and fiery fan of musician Ty Harper. She earned two Logie Award nominations for her portrayal of the character and appeared in 353 episodes from 2008 until her departure in 2011.

"I want to go to America; it's always been my goal to work in Hollywood. It's the one stage in my life where I have absolutely nothing holding me down," said the actress of her departure.

3 Margot Robbie Made Her American Debut With 'Pan Am'

Margot Robbie made her American debut as stewardess Laura Cameron in Pan Am. As the title suggests, Pan Am chronicles the lives of aircraft pilots and stewardesses at the beginning of the commercial Jet Age in the 1960s. Although the show was canceled after its first season (14 episodes), Pan Am catapulted Margot's career like never before.

As soon as it went on-air, they were like, ‘No, we didn’t get the ratings we want — let’s get a whole new crew of writers and make it more like ‘Housewives,'” the actress said about what went wrong with the show. “And you’re like, ‘What? That’s so not what the show was going to be.’ After the fifth episode, you see this abrupt change in content. If they’re rehiring writers, it’s obviously not doing well."

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2 Margot Robbie Co-Starred Rachel McAdams In 'About Time'

In 2013, Margot made her feature film debut alongside the likes of Rachel McAdams and Domnhall Gleeson in About Time. The British rom-com drama centers around a young man who seeks to improve his life through his time travel ability. The film was met with a positive welcome from critics and fans alike, amassing $87.1 million out of its $12 million budget.

"What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn’t anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible," her co-star Rachel McAdams told Collider about the film. "I love films that make you feel a little differently when you come out of them, as opposed to when you first go in, and I feel like this one does that."

1 What's Next For Margot Robbie?

So, what's next for Hollywood's powerhouse actress? Margot Robbie has clearly been gaining her momentum as an actress lately as she's become the poster girl of super villain Harley Quinn in DC films starting from Suicide Squad in 2016. Now, the co-founder of LuckyChap Entertainment has a plethora of up-and-coming projects on her horizon, including the live-action adaptation of Barbie, Damien Chazelle's Babylon, and Wes Anderson's Asteroid City.

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