Margot Robbie’s Film Career: From Barbie Dreamhouse to Terminal Trainwreck
KEY POINTS
- •Margot Robbie’s performance in ‘Barbie’ (2023) helped her secure a spot on Forbes’ highest-paid actors list.
- •Her lowest-rated movie ‘Terminal’ (2018) scored only 22% with critics and features a bizarre neo-noir plot involving hitmen and illness.
- •Robbie’s diverse roles include Harley Quinn in ‘Suicide Squad’ (2016), Jane in ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ (2016), and Queen Elizabeth I in ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ (2018).
Margot Robbie, Australia’s gift to Hollywood, flexes her filmography muscles with hits like ‘Barbie’ (2023), which singlehandedly nestled her in Forbes’ highest-paid actors club alongside names like Adam Sandler. But before Barbie gigs and jingle-jangle pink wardrobes, Robbie tried her hand at neo-noir chaos in ‘Terminal’ (2018), a movie so perplexing even Mike Myers got roped into mercenary messes, scoring a paltry 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. Then there was 2016’s ‘Suicide Squad,’ where Harley Quinn made her debuts but critics collectively sighed with 26%. She bounced through ’20s Hollywood in ‘Babylon,’ 1930s political conspiracies in ‘Amsterdam,’ and dabbled in jungle calls with the ‘Legend of Tarzan.’ Along the way, she shared screens with everyone from Simon Pegg battling a terminal illness, to Colin Farrell in a time-traveling, past-gazing romance in ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ (2025). Upcoming co-starring with Jacob Elordi in ‘Wuthering Heights’ suggests she’s yet to find a genre she hasn’t attempted—in fact, she’s been everything from crisis-prone double-life waitress to queenly antagonist in ‘Mary Queen of Scots.’ An actress whose Rotten scores span barely-passing to beloved blockbusters, Robbie’s resume looks like the Hollywood equivalent of a Tinder swipe: some landmines, some treasures, all unforgettable.
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Margot Robbie’s film career is basically the greatest hits and misses album you didn’t know you needed, but somehow she’s still printing money doing it.
Only Margot Robbie could turn playing a hitman’s waitress and a semi-doomed queen into parts that pay the same.
Her movies range from ‘How did this happen?’ to ‘I want a Barbie,’ and somehow, that’s a flex on Hollywood.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/9/2026 | Author: Meghan Cook
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