Inside Margot’s marriage to her ‘normie’ British husband Tom Ackerley

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Margot Robbie and her British husband Tom Ackerley are expecting their first child, according to new reports. 

The couple were pictured with week boarding a boat during a holiday to Lake Como, with the actress, 34, displaying her small, but visible baby bump in a white crop top.

Although they rarely discuss their private life, Margot is proud anglophile who has openly spoke about her love of London, Harry Potter, Love Island and the tube, all thanks to Tom. 

After meeting on a film set in 2013, they went on to found a production company together before marrying in secret a few years later. 

Now, as the couple prepare to welcome their first child we take a look back at Margot and Tom’s love story.

2013 – Where it all began 

It was playing a supporting role in the World War II movie Suite Francaise that Margot met her future husband, Tom, who was its assistant director, in 2013. 

The cast and crew spent eight weeks shooting in Belgium followed by eight days in France where Margot said the crew bonded. 

The actress, Tom and five others in the London-based film crew got on so well that they decided to move in together.

‘We were like: “Wouldn’t it be funny if we all lived together?” Margot explained, ‘Someone said: “But you don’t live in London,” and I said: “I don’t live anywhere. I’ll move.”‘

They signed a lease on a property in Clapham, dubbed The Manor, chosen to be affordable to even the lowest paid crew member. 

In an interview with Elle in 2018, she admitted that she and Tom had initially decided to keep their romantic relationship to themselves.

‘We kept it a secret. Because we weren’t really taking it seriously. ‘Oh, whatever, we’re just mates, we’re just mates.’ And then… everyone found out,’ she explained.

On her friends finding out, she recalled: ‘It was dramatic. I’m not going into the details, but s**t hit the fan. Our house turned into The Jerry Springer Show for a moment there. But then the dust settled, and it was all good.’

A friend who used to attend parties at the Clapham property said the house-mates liked to play drinking games and got through a lot of beer – which he remembers being plentiful in an otherwise empty fridge.

They’d go to Infernos and then nurse their hangovers the next day on Clapham Common.

Pictures posted of the group on social media in 2014 suggest a hard-drinking lifestyle a world away from LA.

One, captioned ‘the house degenerates’, shows a brunette Margot wearing black boots, posing with her housemates atop a roof, sticking two fingers up at the camera, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan ‘Oscars Bait.’

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Another shows a pile of bin bags outside the house filled with empty beer cans.

‘I was like a naughty schoolgirl,’ Margot said of this time. ‘It was my first time living in London and I wanted to try every pub.’

The housemates got on so well that in 2015, four of them – Margot, Tom, Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara – founded production company, Lucky Chap. Now worth an estimated £25 million. 

Together, Margot and Tom have produced films including the Academy Award-winning I, Tonya and Promising Young Woman, as well as the 2023 blockbuster Barbie, all under their LuckyChap Entertainment banner. 

She and Ackerley left their house share for their own home in West London before moving to Los Angeles in 2017.

2016 – Tying-the-knot  

In December 2016, Margot and Tom married during a private ceremony in Byron Bay. 

There was no engagement announcement and no suggestion they were set to marry at all until Margot was pictured at Gold Coast airport in December 2016 wearing a T-shirt with the slogan ‘Say ‘I Do’ Down Under.’ 

During the ceremony, she was seen wearing a boho-inspired gown – believed to have been Oscar De La Renta – as she walked through the grounds of the private estate in Coorabell. 

Other guests who made up the congregation of around 50 followed through the lush grounds of the property.

The grounds featured a white marquee structure with smaller awnings surrounding as guests were treated to pizza and cocktails alongside a DJ set by the pool.

Margot had been given away by her mum, physiotherapist Sarie Kessler, and was joined by siblings Lachlan, Cameron and sister Anya. 

According to a report from News.com.au, the festivities kicked off at 4pm.

The couple exchanged their vows under a large white teepee-style tent at a luxurious property in Coorabell, in Byron Bay’s hinterland.

Following the ceremony, guests danced into the night, with celebrations reportedly lasting until around 11pm.

The wedding location was so top secret, with even guests kept in the dark about where the couple would wed. 

The publication states those lucky enough to score an invite were asked to gather at different locations from Byron Bay to the Gold Coast, so that they could be collected by bus and taken to the under-wraps locale. 

In January 2024, Margot admitted she’s ‘so lucky’ to have a ‘normie’ husband in film producer Tom who isn’t ‘fazed’ by the spotlight.

The Barbie star said she was grateful to have a spouse who she can work alongside and also insisted her friends would much prefer to talk about non-work stuff when they hang out as it’s more ‘fun’.

She told ‘E! News’ at the Critics Choice Awards at Santa Barbara’s Barker Hangar: ‘I am so lucky. He likes being behind the camera, he’s not fazed by any of this stuff, he’s just the best. It’s so fun. I love the word ‘normie’.  

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‘Like All my friends, everyone’s kind of like, “That’s cool what you do.” But you know, it’s more cool to hang out and talk about other stuff. And you’re like, “I know.”‘

A Harry Potter fanatic, she also revealed she still keeps two Oyster cards in her wallet to travel the London Underground — ‘I always get the Tube’ — and she adores the ITV reality show Love Island.

Margot seemed as pleased to see the show’s decidedly less famous former contestants Ekin-Su Culculoglu, Davide Sanclimenti, Liberty Poole and Danica Taylor, at Barbie’s London premiere as they were to see her, and proudly declared: ‘I seem to love a lot of British things. I love Harry Potter, I love my husband and I love Love Island.’

What have they said about working together?  

Last week, Margot and Tom revealed they spend ’24 hours a day’ together in a rare joint interview.

‘It’s seamless,’ the Englishman described to The Sunday Times, ‘We don’t have a toggle on, toggle off. It’s all become one thing.’

The producer – who began his career as an extra in the Harry Potter films – said he ‘feels like an honorary Aussie’ and ‘Margot feels like an honorary Brit’ despite the inseparable couple arguing over ‘whether Tim Tams or Penguins are better.’

Robbie and Ackerley have recently launched their latest project- the Australian gin company Papa Salt – at the Harvey Nichols department store in London.

‘Movies are a crazy business where you are selling something that isn’t tangible, it’s an idea. You have no idea how much it’s going to make, who’s going to see it, if they’ll see it or how it will be received,’ the Barbie producer-star explained.

‘This feels a lot more straightforward, it’s easier to predict things. You can lay this out on a spreadsheet in a way that you can’t lay out a movie idea. Our passions are movies and drinks, and now we’ve ticked them both.’