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the age of MARGOT

AT just 30 years old, Margot Robbie is building quite an empire. The Australian-born actress has starred opposite countless Hollywood heavyweights, caught the attention of big names like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino and started a production company (at 24!). In 2019, Forbes ranked her as the eighth highest-paid actress in the world, while The Hollywood Reporter named her among the 100 most powerful people in entertainment. This year has seen her star in superhero film Birds of Prey and produce the thriller Promising Young Women starring Carey Mulligan. She is also in talks to star in a female-driven Pirates of the Caribbean – clearly Margot isn’t content with leaving certain genres to the boys.

Her beginnings were pretty humble. Margot grew up on Australia’s Gold Coast and her parents divorced when she was young, so her mother, Sarie, was a single

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