Time named her one of the most influential people in the world in , and Forbes named her the world's highest-paid actress in Born and raised in Queensland , Robbie began her career in on the television series Neighbours , on which she was a regular until 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 Robbie has since starred as an aspiring actress in the period film Babylon and the titular fashion doll in the fantasy comedy Barbie , which emerged as her highest-grossing release and, as its producer, earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Robbie and her husband, filmmaker Tom Ackerley , co-founded the production company LuckyChap Entertainment in , under which they have produced several films, including I, Tonya , Promising Young Woman , Barbie , and Saltburn , as well as the Hulu series Dollface β and the Netflix miniseries Maid The family spent the majority of Robbie's upbringing on her grandparents' Currumbin Valley farm [ 7 ] in the Gold Coast hinterland.
She was enrolled in a circus school by her mother, where she excelled in trapeze , in which she received a certificate at age eight. Robbie's first acting roles came when she was in high school. She starred in two low-budget independent thriller films, called Vigilante and I.
She described the experience of being on a film set as "a dream come true". With agent encouragement at the time and as Robbie recalled on The Graham Norton Show , [ 18 ] she called FremantleMedia on a daily basis.
She was told, "We're looking for exactly that, come in and audition" [ 18 ] for the television soap opera Neighbours. In June , she began playing Donna Freedman , a role that was meant to be a guest character, but Robbie was promoted to the regular cast after she made her debut. Shortly after arriving in America, Robbie landed the role of Laura Cameron, a newly trained flight attendant in the period drama series Pan Am The series premiered to high ratings and positive reviews but was cancelled after one season due to falling ratings.
