Margot Robbie at the premiere for ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ in theaters September 19, 2025. Photo: Dave Allocca / Starpix.
Margot Robbie is one of the most popular and talented performers of her generation.
The Australian actress and producer first gained attention on the big screen for her role in Martin Scorsese‘s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ before playing DC Comics character Harley Quinn in ‘Suicide Squad,’ ‘Birds of Prey‘ and ‘The Suicide Squad.’
She has also appeared in such critically acclaimed movies as ‘I, Tonya,’ ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,’ ‘Babylon‘, and of course, ‘Barbie‘.
“Relive your past. Change your future.”
Release Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
Budget: $45,000,000
In honor of her new film ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey‘, which also stars Colin Farell and opens in theaters on September 19th, Moviefone is counting down the 20 best movies of Margot Robbie’s career, including her latest.
Let’s begin!
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in ‘Suicide Squad’
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Release Date: Aug 5, 2016
Run Time: 2 hr 2 min
Budget: $175,000,000
Peter Rabbit’s (James Corden) feud with Mr. McGregor (Sam Neill) escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.
“Who said the countryside was peaceful?”
Release Date: Feb 9, 2018
Run Time: 1 hr 33 min
Budget: $50,000,000
In 1561, Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan), widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I (Robbie) as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
Release Date: Dec 21, 2018
Run Time: 2 hr 4 min
Budget: $25,000,000
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker (Tina Fey) decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel (Robbie), a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
“From the headlines to the front lines.”
Release Date: Mar 4, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 52 min
Budget: $35,000,000
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin (Stanley Hamlin).
Release Date: Oct 13, 2017
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
(L to R) Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington in director David O. Russell’s ‘Amsterdam.’ Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios.
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor (Christian Bale), a nurse (Robbie), and an attorney—witness (John David Washington) a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
“Let the love, murder and conspiracy begin.”
Release Date: Oct 7, 2022
Run Time: 2 hr 14 min
Budget: $80,000,000
The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Release Date: Jun 23, 2023
Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
Budget: $25,000,000
Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård), having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Release Date: Jul 1, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
Budget: $180,000,000
From Damien Chazelle, ‘Babylon’ is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles and tells the tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Release Date: Dec 23, 2022
Run Time: 3 hr 9 min
Budget: $78,000,000
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year’s party, Tim’s father (Bill Nighy) tells his son (Domhnall Gleeson) that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can’t change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
“What if every moment in life came with a second chance?”
Release Date: Nov 8, 2013
Run Time: 2 hr 3 min
Budget: $12,000,000
(L to R) Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell star in ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’. Photo: Matt Kennedy. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. SALE, DUPLICATION OR TRANSFER OF THIS MATERIAL IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Sarah (Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present… and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.
“Relive your past. Change your future.”
Release Date: Sep 19, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
Budget: $45,000,000
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Release Date: Dec 23, 2015
Run Time: 2 hr 11 min
Budget: $28,000,000
Harley Quinn (Robbie) joins forces with a singer (June Smollett), an assassin (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and a police detective (Rosie Perez) to help a young girl (Ella Jay Basco) who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
Release Date: Feb 7, 2020
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
Budget: $75,000,000
7. ‘Focus‘ (2015)
Nicky (Will Smith), an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess (Robbie) but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
Release Date: Feb 27, 2015
Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
Budget: $50,100,000
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women (Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Robbie) who brought down the infamous man (John Lithgow) who created it.
“Based on a real scandal.”
Release Date: Dec 20, 2019
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
Budget: $32,000,000
(L to R) Margot Robbie, Daniela Melchior, Idris Elba, Sylvester Stallone, and David Dastmalchian in ‘The Suicide Squad’
Welcome to Belle Reve, the prison where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out, even join the super-secret Task Force X. Today’s assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), King Shark (Sylvester Stallone), and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn (Robbie).
Now arm them heavily and drop them on the enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) on the ground to make them behave, and Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement.
“They’re dying to save the world.”
Release Date: Aug 6, 2021
Run Time: 2 hr 12 min
Budget: $185,000,000
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding (Robbie) rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes (Sebastian Stan).
“Fitting in is overrated”
Release Date: Jan 19, 2018
Run Time: 2 hr
Budget: $11,000,000
A New York stockbroker (Leonardo DiCaprio) refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
Release Date: Dec 25, 2013
Run Time: 3 hr
Budget: $100,000,000
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate (Robbie), who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski (Rafał Zawierucha).
“In this town, it can all change… Like that.”
Release Date: Jul 26, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 42 min
Budget: $95,000,000
Margot Robbie as Barbie in Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Barbie,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken (Ryan Gosling).
“She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”
Release Date: Jul 21, 2023
Run Time: 1 hr 54 min
Budget: $145,000,000
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