Margot Robbie Became Harley Quinn

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The newest trailer dropped this week, and it looks like Harley's origin story will take up a large chunk of screen time — and Robbie has a delightfully unhinged presence.

Robbie also has two other films coming out this year: a live-action Tarzan remake, The Legend of Tarzan, and the comedy Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

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Born in 1990, Margot Robbie grew up on her grandparents' farm on Australia's Gold Coast. A business-savvy child, she would make up magic tricks and put on shows, charging anyone who wanted to learn her tricks.

She bought her first surfboard at a garage sale when she was 10. I'm happiest when I'm surfing or out on the farm hunting wild pigs ... or riding around on motorbikes, she said in a 2008 interview.

As a teen, she worked as a subway artist at a Subway in Melbourne. Six months after Robbie landed her first major acting role, Subway hired her for a commercial. I got paid like 20 times the amount I ever earned there, Robbie says.

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After graduating from high school, Robbie cold-called producers of Australia's longest-running soap opera, Neighbours. The show follows the residents of Ramsay Street, a residential cul-de-sac in a fictional Melbourne suburb.

Robbie landed a guest role as Donna Freedman, a free-spirited and confident teenager, and charmed audiences immediately. She stayed on Neighbours for three years.

When she wasn't on set, Robbie took acting classes and worked with a dialogue coach to perfect her American accent. She found an agent and left for Hollywood in 2011.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 13: Neighbours actress Margot Robbie arrives for the Australian Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2009 at Hisense Arena on November 13, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) Cameron Spencer/Getty

Robbie touched down just as pilot season began. She auditioned for every major TV network and won a central role on the one-season ABC drama Pan Am.

Upon moving to the States, she joined an amateur hockey league, playing right wing. I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, but we didn't have any ice where I lived, she told Film.com. I'm definitely the worst on the team.

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The month Pan Am got the ax, Robbie received a script for The Wolf of Wall Street, an epic tale of sex, drugs, and greed based on the memoir of stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Director Martin Scorsese reportedly sent a script to every unknown actress in Hollywood.

I thought, I've got moments left in the room, I've got to do something, Robbie thought. So for the next scene, which was a fight, I got a little lost in the moment ...

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At the end of the scene, I was meant to walk away, but instead I slapped him in the face and said, 'F--- you!' Robbie remembers. There was this stunned silence, which felt like an eternity, and then they all burst out laughing. I said, 'I'm so sorry, ' and Leo said, 'That was brilliant. Hit me in the face again.' She got the part.

The movie catapulted Robbie's career. The scene below, in which her character, Naomi, brings Jordan to his knees in agony by withholding sex, remains one of its most memorable moments.

Robbie followed up her blockbuster success with two indie flicks: Suite Française, an adaptation of Iréne Némirovsky's novel, and Z for Zachariah, filmed in the close-to-home mountain ranges of New Zealand.

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Robbie was next cast in in the dark romantic comedy Focus, opposite Will Smith. The movie follows a veteran con artist (Smith) who takes an up-and-coming swindler under his wing, teaching her the tricks of the trade.

On wrap day, the pair cozied up in a photo booth, taking playful and racy photos arm-in-arm. The leaked images fueled rumors that the two were having an affair, which Robbie adamantly denied.

In fact, Robbie revealed to Marie Claire in the March 2015 issue that she had sworn off dating actors. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship, she says.

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Robbie popped up in current best-picture nominee The Big Short last year. In it, she explained collateralized debt obligations in a bathtub.

First up is the war comedy Whisky Foxtrot Tango, based on Kim Barker's wartime memoir The Taliban Shuffle. Tina Fey stars as a war correspondent with a dark sense of humor and a thirst for adventure, and Robbie plays a British TV journalist who befriends her.

Following that is the Tarzan remake The Legend of Tarzan, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, True Blood actor Alexander Skarsgard, and Robbie as Jane Porter.

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Suicide Squad is based on a comic book with the most infamous supervillains in the DC Comics universe, including Jared Leto as The Joker, Will Smith as Deadshot, and Cara Delevingne as Enchantress.

Robbie appears as the cheery and psychotic Harley Quinn, Joker's girlfriend and henchwoman. Robbie told MTV that she didn't even audition for the role, which is a real step up as an actor, when you get offered things.

Robbie told Cineplex that playing the creepy, violent, crazy Harley is fun. It's the fun of living vicariously through someone who is doing things that I would never do in real life, she said.

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I enjoyed working with Will so, so much that I was overjoyed when I heard that we would be working together again, she told Cineplex. I actually texted him when I heard he was in negotiations to be in 'Suicide Squad' and kept peer-pressuring him, 'You'd better be taking this movie!' He obviously signed on for his own reasons, but I was so incredibly happy that we got to do round two. He's awesome on set and awesome off set. He's just a really, really good person.

Leto sent Robbie a rat to get into character as the Clown Prince of Crime. Robbie keeps it as a pet, named Rat Rat, and feeds it organic berries from Whole Foods.

It's always bigger than you think it's going to be. I definitely didn't think it through when I took on the job, but once you're in the midst of it, it's too late to take it back. The whole comic-book world has such a huge fan base ... You get a taste of it when you do exterior shoots, like on the streets, and fans line up. You're kind of reminded of how closely people are watching and anticipating it.

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SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 11: Actress Margot Robbie attends the Warner Bros. 'Suicide Squad' presentation during Comic-Con International 2015 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 11, 2015 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Kevin Winter/Getty