{"id":904392,"date":"2026-09-25T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904392\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:16:12","slug":"margot-robbie-name-change-aussie-stars-latest-move-has-the-world-in-a-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904392\/","title":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie name change: Aussie star\u2019s latest move has the world in a spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margot Robbie<\/a> has quietly changed her name after nearly a decade of marriage, sparking headlines around the globe and a wide range of fan reactions.<\/p>\n

The Wuthering Heights star, 36, appears to have dropped her maiden name and is now going by Margot Ackerley, according to business documents.<\/p>\n

\"Margot<\/p>\n

Margot Robbie has changed her name and it\u2019s sent the world into a spin.\u00a0Getty Images for Saint Laurent<\/p>\n

Forms for her and husband Tom Ackerley\u2019s production company LuckyChap Entertainment had her listed under the new name when the UK\u2019s Companies House published them this week.<\/p>\n

It seems Robbie has adopted her assistant director husband\u2019s surname just a few months shy of their 10-year wedding anniversary<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean that the Australian actress will suddenly start appearing on movie posters as Margot Ackerley.<\/p>\n

Like many stars who have stage names<\/a> \u2013 Angelina Jolie (Angelina Jolie Voight), Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother) and Nic Cage (Nicolas Kim Coppola), to name a few \u2013 Robbie will likely continue to use her maiden name in a professional capacity.<\/p>\n

That hasn\u2019t stopped some fans from complaining about her name change.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarbie would never take a man\u2019s surname,\u201d one X (formerly Twitter) user wrote.<\/p>\n

Others said Robbie\u2019s name change felt like a \u201cbad business decision\u201d given so much of her reputation on- and off-screen is built around her personal brand as \u2018Margot Robbie\u2019.<\/p>\n

More dedicated fans insisted the change didn\u2019t bother them and even congratulated Robbie for making the move after nearly a decade of marriage.<\/p>\n

\"Margot<\/p>\n

Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley met in 2013 and were married three years later in Byron Bay.\u00a0WireImage<\/p>\n

A woman\u2019s decision to change her name after tying the knot can be fraught<\/a> these days; some camps insist women should follow tradition and take their husband\u2019s surname, while others claim it\u2019s anti-feminist to adopt a man\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood Robbie kept her maiden name when she and Ackerley married in Byron Bay in 2016, three years after they met on the set of Suite Fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n

They welcomed their first child in 2024, a baby boy whose name they\u2019ve never shared publicly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible he also took Ackerley\u2019s surname and Robbie\u2019s decision to adopt it now is a move to share the same name as her son and husband.<\/p>\n

Given how private she is about her personal life, it\u2019s entirely possible we\u2019ll never know the full story.<\/p>\n

\"Margot<\/p>\n

Margot Robbie welcomed her first child in 2024 but has kept details about the baby boy private.\u00a0Getty Images for The Met Museum\/<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, she had to clear up a long-running claim about her childhood<\/a> that people had been getting wrong for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say I was born in Dalby, which is where my family is from, but I wasn\u2019t, I was born on the Gold Coast<\/a>,\u201d she told Magic FM in May.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a stupid rumour, it’s just amazing that this far along, it’s still incorrect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie has quietly changed her name after nearly a decade of marriage, sparking headlines around the globe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-904392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}