Margot Robbie’s big-budgeted and highly anticipated summer movie Barbie was released on Friday.
The 33-year-old actress plays the title role of the Mattel wonder opposite Ryan Reynolds as her beau Ken in a live-action movie directed by Greta Gerwig.
Barbie dolls are usually purchased for girls anywhere from toddler age to tweens with some even holding on to the plastic princess way into their teenaged years.
DailyMail.com has unearthed rare photos of Robbie when she was the age when most girls collect Barbie and all her add-ons like her pink convertible, pets, bicycle and dreamy Malibu beach house.
In photos that have hardly ever been published, Margot appears to be a sweet young kid with thick bangs and a wide smile who is ready for adventure.
From baby to Barbie: Barbie star Margot Robbie (seen R in the film) looks adorable in resurfaced childhood snaps – the star is seen left aged four attending Somerset College Primary School in Queensland in 1994
What a cutie: In photos that have hardly ever been published, Margot appears to be a sweet young kid with a wide smile who is ready for adventure
She sure is a beauty: Here the actress is seen in her Western look from the movie directed by Greta Gerwig
The movie star was born Margot Elise Robbie on July 2, 1990.
The plucky actress seemed to have a very normal upbringing in Australia.
She did not grow up in a big city but rather in the country in Dalby, Queensland. Dalby is a rural town in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. The population of Dalby is about 15,000 people.
Her father Doug Robbie was a farm-owner and sugarcane tycoon. Her educated mother was Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist.
Little Margot was far from an only child as she had siblings. They are Anya, Lachlan and Cameron.
But crisis hit the family early on as her parents split up with the future A list movie star was only five-years-old.
After the marriage crumbled, the kids lived with their mother Sarie at a Gold Coast farm owned by one of their grandparents. The farm was called Currumbin Valley.
Margot did not see much of her dad after the split.
Robbie thrived anyhow as she became athletic learning gymnastics.
It has been claimed that her mother entered her in the circus as a trapeze artist after having received a certificate at age eight.
Baby girl: The plucky actress seemed to have a very normal upbringing in Australia. She did not grow up in a big city but rather in the country in Dalby, Queensland – she has three siblings, Anya, Lachlan and Cameron
Smiles of joy: The star is seen with her sister Anya as a toddler in Australia
Bookworm: Margot did not see much of her dad after the split. Robbie thrived anyhow as she became athletic, learning gymnastics – she is seen as a young teenager with braces
A big star now: Robbie attends the Barbie European premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square on July 12, 2023 in London
The family bond: Margot with (L-R) her father Doug Robbie, her mother Sarie Kessler and husband Tom Ackerley
But soon acting came calling for the cheerful blonde. While still in high school she appeared in two small budget films: Vigilante and I.C.U.
She studied drama at Somerset College where she first honed her skills.
But money was not easy when she was at college and she had to work odd jobs to pay for the basics.
At one point she lived off tips as a bartender and also took to cleaning houses for extra cash.
It has been claimed that she also made sandwiches at a Subway chain.
After she graduated from Somerset she went into acting in Melbourne, picking up commercials to get by.
Her home town: Dalby is a rural town in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. The population of Dalby is about 15,000 people
With mama: Here she made a rare appearance with her mother Sarie at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2018
She made her television debut in a 2008 guest role as Caitlin Brentford in the drama series City Homicide and followed this with a two-episode arc in the children’s television series The Elephant Princess, in which she starred alongside Liam Hemsworth but her first big hit was Neighbours in 2008. She was on the show until 2011.
Next came Hollywood. She got a small role on Pan Am (2011) then was in the movie About Time (2013).
Robbie’s breakthrough came with Martin Scorsese’s 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.
She played the beautiful wife of Jordan Belfort, who was played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Her sex scenes with the actor were considered wild, and left her fans with wanting more from her.
Next came Focus with Will Smith, The Legend Of Tarzan (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), I, Tonya (2017), Terminal (2018), and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) to name a few.
Bombshell (2019), Birds Of Prey (2020), Amsterdam (2022) and Baby;on (2022) followed. Her last film was Asteroid City.
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While promoting her new Barbie movie Margot said she really never played with dolls as a kid.
Teen spirit! She was only 19-years-old in this photo taken in 2009. She was at the Australian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2009 at Hisense Arena in Melbourne
At the Black Eyed Peas Wrap Party at the Palms at Crown in 2009 in Melbourne
She said she was not into playing indoors with toys as she was more of a ‘roll-around-in-the-mud kind of gal’ though her sister and cousins did have the dolls.
When asked about her memories of playing with Barbie dolls, she said, ‘I didn’t personally have any that I can recall.’
But when she did play with dolls they were not picture perfect.
‘I think they were all so janky because they were not well cared for. They were all weird Barbies,’ she added.
And on Thursday she shed some light on what kind of kid she was.
She has hilariously revealed how she faked her own death to get back at the babysitter she was having issues with as a young girl.
The siren revealed during an interview conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike on BBC 2 that she once smeared ketchup on her body and lay next to a kitchen knife after a conflict with a new babysitter she wasn’t liking all that much.
Robbie waited 45 minutes to be discovered by the nanny – but said it was all worth to watch her run out of the house, screaming.
‘We got a new babysitter,’ Margot recalled during an interview with BBC Radio 2. ‘And I wanted my old babysitter back, Talia, who was like 16 and I thought she was so cool. And then we got this much older lady in and I was just not happy about it.’
‘She told me to go have a bath and I didn’t want to, and she was very cranky and I thought, “I’m going to show you.”
A pinup at 19: Seen at the 51st TV Week Logie Awards at the Crown Towers Hotel and Casino in 2009 in Melbourne
‘And so I got a big kitchen knife and the ketchup and I lay sprawled out naked on the tiles, covered myself in ketchup and put the kitchen knife.
‘And I waited for like 45 minutes for her to find me. But, it was worth the wait.’
‘Did she run screaming from the house?’ interviewer Zoe Ball asked.
‘Oh yeah,’ she replied.
‘You produced your own death,’ Ryan Gosling chimed in. ‘I did,’ Margot replied.
The star also recalled another time she scared people as a child – so much the ambulance was even called.
‘I also once practiced like a pratfall on the cinema stairs at the shopping center where I’m from,’ she said. ‘People started calling an ambulance so, I guess I was a bit of a dramatic child.
As Barbie hits cinemas… here’s what the critics are saying
Margot Robbie’s highly-anticipated Barbie movie is released July 21 after a whirlwind press tour, and already it has earned many rave reviews.
The film stars Robbie as the iconic Mattel doll and Ryan Gosling as Ken alongside an A-list ensemble cast that includes America Ferrera, Dua Lipa, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae and Will Ferrell.
Here, DailyMail.com takes a look at what the critics are saying…
‘Dazzling’: Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosliing, is a hit with critics
‘My main criticism, actually, has nothing to do with the subject matter. Barbie or no Barbie, it’s not intrinsically that good a film. It’s uneven, disjointed, the plot makes no real sense — and the dead hand of corporate America weighs heavily upon it.’ – Sarah Vine, Daily Mail
‘Yes, Barbie is fun. Yes, it will make you laugh and might make you think. But […] it won’t change your life, probably not your summer, maybe not even your week.’ – Brian Viner, Daily Mail
‘This is a truly original work – one of the smartest, funniest, sweetest, most insightful and just plain flat-out entertaining movies of the year’ – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
‘In Gerwig’s capable hands, even a movie about the one of most popular toys of all time eludes expectations at every turn. Barbie is her mainstream masterpiece, a dazzling dream that will touch the souls of everyone who sees it’ – Coleman Spilde, The Daily Beast
Both a master’s thesis on feminism and an Austin Powers-esque romp’ – Chandler Levack, Globe And Mail
‘The zaniness of Barbie, combined with Gerwig’s interest in skewering the patriarchy, sometimes makes the movie a baggy, tonally dissonant viewing experience. But for the most part, she achieves a pleasing balance between the silly and the serious’ – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
‘Barbed statement wrapped in a visually sumptuous & sublimely silly cinematic confection’ – Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
‘A soulful film underneath all the persistent fuchsia. One that has heart and ambition as well as abundant beauty, inside and out’ – Tomris Laffly, TheWrap
‘What really makes this comedy click are the stellar performances, from the lead role on down. This is the funniest cast I’ve seen in some time’ – Peter Howell, Toronto Star
‘This is a wonderfully fun watch that somehow manages to simultaneously celebrate and satirise the Barbie brand, its feminism and girliness pairing like gorpcore sandals with a floaty pink skirt’ – Alice Saville, Time Out
‘Robbie takes an archetype long dismissed as an airheaded caricature and, moment by deeply felt moment, teases and fleshes her out’ – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
‘Robbie takes an archetype long dismissed as an airheaded caricature and, moment by deeply felt moment, teases and fleshes her out’ – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
