COVER FEATURE
FROM SOMERSET COLLEGE SCHOOLGIRL TO WORLD STAR If you wrote a script detailing the stratospheric rise of Margot Robbie and submitted it to a producer as a plot line, it would be passed over as simply too far-fetched. Born in Dalby on Queensland’s Darling Downs she spent her formative years on the Gold Coast attending Somerset College. Her first foray into making movies was when she was cast by Aash Aaron in the low budget thriller ‘Vigilante’ in 2008 and another role in ‘I.C.U’. Before then she had limited knowledge of acting, her main performance highlights were at a circus school she attended at the urging of her mother.
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With limited experience she made the bold step, at the urging of friends and her then agent, to apply for a role in ‘Neighbours’. She was accepted and starred in the popular soap until 2011 where she learnt about her craft and the discipline required to be a hardworking actor. Her naiveté was revealed in an interview years later when she was surprised to discover that some of her co-stars were married with children and that it was possible to have a successful career and life as an actor. She also confessed that getting that role on ‘Neighbours’ was probably going to be the biggest thing in her career.
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