All jokes about Barbie’s iconic dreamhouse aside, Margot Robbie truly does have an incredibly covetable real estate portfolio. Now one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents, the actor grew up in a quiet suburb of Queensland, Australia, and later moved with her mother and three siblings to the Gold Coast. She relocated to Brooklyn in the early 2010s and met her husband, director Tom Ackerley, several years later, but it wasn’t until after the pair got married in 2016 that she even contemplated owning a home.
Early on she and Ackerley shared a flat with four roommates in London. “I like living with lots of people,” she told news.com.au. “It reminds me of the house I grew up in.” Fast-forward to more than a decade later, and Robbie has since bought and sold a handful of residences both in Los Angeles, where she works, and on Australia’s Gold Coast, where her family still resides. Turns out, dream houses come in many shapes and sizes. Below, we’re sharing a glimpse into each of the places that Robbie has called home over the years.
2017
Robbie and Ackerley’s starter home was an impressive $2.73 million mansion in LA’s ritzy Hancock Park neighborhood, which they quietly picked up just one month after tying the knot. The gated home measured 3,900 square feet and featured four bedrooms, including a primary suite with its own balcony; an enviable kitchen decked out in Carrera marble, brass, and chrome fixtures; and a wine cellar. The new construction also boasted European oak hardwood floors, high ceilings, and stainless steel appliances. A few more unexpected features: a wood rope swing in the living room and a private dog/cat room that was built with its own separate entrance—it’s possible that the newlyweds reserved this room for their puppy Boo Radley, whom they also adopted at the start of that year. The couple decided to let go of this first residence in May 2021, listing it for $3.47 million; they sold it one month later, for $3.45 million.
2018
The actor’s second Stateside home was an investment property. In February, she bought a charming bungalow in Hollywood Heights from Milk writer Dustin Lance Black (who later married British Olympic gold medalist diver Tom Daley) for $950,000. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom pad measured a modest 945 square feet, but what it lacked in size it more than made up for in style. Robbie went to work renovating the property almost immediately, refinishing the hardwood floors, renovating and updating the kitchen, and repainting the entire home. The result was a hillside midcentury with cobalt blue shutters and trim (a color scheme that wound its way through the interiors, too), a primary bedroom with French doors opening directly out onto a small courtyard and tiered garden, and a white-tiled galley kitchen. The I, Tonya actor flipped the property onto the rental market shortly afterward, initially for $5,000 a month and then dropping it down to $4,200 a month. She held onto the home for three years before selling it for $1.2 million in 2021.
Also in 2018, Robbie snapped up two modern side-by-side homes in Australia’s Gold Coast for a reported $2.5 million. Her mother, Sarie, had just sold Robbie’s childhood home, and the Suicide Squad actor generously purchased these two residences for both Sarie and her sister Anya (Robbie also has two brothers, Lachlan and Cameron). In a Vogue Australia interview between Sarie and Robbie, the actor reminisced about growing up on the Gold Coast, and how there were “camphor laurel trees down the back past the back paddock and [she] could sit in the tree and do [her] homework and Mum would yell out the window when dinner was ready.” She added, “You tell stories like that and you realize how lucky you are to have grown up on the Gold Coast.”
2019
Robbie’s next home was a stunning Venice Beach compound, which she picked up in an off-market deal for $5 million. At the time of purchase, it comprised three separate concrete structures sitting on a double-wide lot—a cottage-like residence, a loft-like live/work space, and a bungalow-like structure featuring two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Because the deal took place off-market, details of the property are not readily available, but in a Vogue 73 Questions interview that took place that same year, Robbie shows off a sun-drenched, airy living space with white walls, high wood-beamed ceilings, and an open plan layout. A lap pool out back is where, according to Robbie, she enjoys starting off the day with a swim. In 2021, it was reported that the couple had begun major construction on the property, so it is yet to be seen how they will reimagine the place. Robbie still owns this home.
Robbie extended her breezy, beachy aesthetic to the LuckyChap Entertainment headquarters, where she, Ackerley, and their friends Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara brainstorm, gather, and work together. The quartet cofounded the production company in 2014, and originally occupied an office space on the Warner Brothers lot. The vibe of their new office is beach cottage chic, with some added flair. “It’s really fun, because I feel like everyone’s office has a nice touch of their own personality,” Kerr told AD. Robbie’s office, for instance, reflects her love for the outdoors, with wood-paneled walls and crocheted light fixtures. The centerpiece of the office however is the kitchen, which boats distressed tiles paired with contemporary appliances. “It’s probably our favorite place of the entire office,” Robbie told AD. “We thought, why not really make the kitchen space nice, and we can do our meetings here, and people can be making coffee at the same time.” Turns out, Robbie has been able to fulfill her dream of living amongst many people after all—just in a different form.
