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Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley have constructed a public partnership round greater than red-carpet appearances. As October 2026 brings one other enlargement at LuckyChap Worldwide, their work collectively presents a helpful strategy to perceive a wedding that’s often mentioned a lot much less overtly than their movies.
The couple married in December 2016, after assembly by way of the movie trade and serving to set up LuckyChap. Robbie is the extra seen performer; Ackerley works primarily behind the digital camera. Their shared credit present why describing him solely as an actor’s husband leaves out a considerable a part of the story.
That manufacturing work additionally connects to our protection of the Ocean’s Eleven prequel and its Paris filming. For this partnership, the skilled report is usually extra revealing than {a photograph} taken between tasks. It paperwork what they’ve helped make and the collaborators working alongside them.
Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley began as colleagues
Robbie’s 2016 Vogue cowl interview described assembly Ackerley on Suite Française, the place he labored as an assistant director. Their friendship developed right into a relationship. The identical interview launched LuckyChap as a enterprise involving Robbie, Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Robbie’s buddy Sophia Kerr, somewhat than an organization constructed by the couple alone.
In Vogue’s 2019 profile, Robbie recalled the group sharing a home in London and founding the enterprise in 2014. The home setting has develop into a part of the corporate’s origin story, however the vital level is sensible: their relationship and their working lives developed inside the identical circle of mates.
Robbie has spoken positively about working together with her husband. In a 2018 Porter interview, later recounted in Harper’s Bazaar’s relationship timeline, she described having fun with the expertise and making an effort to see one another when their work took them to completely different international locations. These are her public feedback a few specific interval, somewhat than a whole account of their personal life.
Ackerley described the same overlap in a 2024 Occasions interview, reported by Us Weekly. He stated that the couple’s enterprise and private lives had develop into intently related. The comment helps clarify their shared skilled id with out establishing that each determination, each undertaking or each working day is similar.
The movie credit inform their very own story
Barbie is the clearest instance of the couple showing in numerous components of the identical undertaking. Robbie performed the central character, whereas each she and Ackerley had been credited as producers. The Academy’s 2024 Finest Image nomination names them alongside fellow producers David Heyman and Robbie Brenner.
Greta Gerwig directed the movie and shared its screenplay credit score with Noah Baumbach. Our characteristic on Gerwig’s Barbie considers the film itself. The manufacturing partnership is one other a part of that image, alongside the director, writers, performers and different individuals answerable for bringing it to the display screen.
The Academy report issues as a result of it identifies a particular skilled contribution. It doesn’t require guessing what occurred contained in the couple’s dwelling, and it doesn’t indicate {that a} movie’s box-office receipts went on to a person producer. It locations Robbie and Ackerley inside a wider credited staff.
Promising Younger Lady gives a distinct instance. Focus Options lists Robbie, Ackerley and McNamara among the many producers of Emerald Fennell’s movie, with Carey Mulligan within the main function. Robbie didn’t need to be its star for LuckyChap to take part in making it.
Focus’s authentic manufacturing announcement named Fennell as author and director and described the collaboration with FilmNation. That distinction is beneficial when wanting on the firm’s id. A manufacturing enterprise can assist a filmmaker’s work whereas its best-known co-founder stays off display screen, giving the partnership an expert life past Robbie’s performing schedule.
A 2026 collaboration with completely different tasks
Wuthering Heights continues the reference to Fennell. Warner Bros. Discovery’s official launch info identifies Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in Fennell’s interpretation of Emily Brontë’s novel. The director additionally wrote the screenplay, bringing the identical filmmaker into one other LuckyChap-associated undertaking.
The credit distinguish the roles concerned. Fennell, McNamara and Robbie are named as producers; Ackerley and Sara Desmond are govt producers. Treating each title as interchangeable would obscure that element. The general public report reveals the couple taking part in the identical movie, with completely different credited tasks.
Warner Bros. Discovery introduced the movie’s HBO Max streaming debut for Might 1, 2026. That makes it an present launch somewhat than a undertaking nonetheless awaiting its first viewers this October. A February premiere {photograph} illustrates the movie’s public launch; it’s not proof of a brand new occasion involving the couple this week.
Shared work takes completely different varieties throughout movie star relationships. Our have a look at Ciara and Russell Wilson’s joint tasks follows one other partnership by way of its public output. For Robbie and Ackerley, display screen credit and manufacturing bulletins present a very substantial report of collaboration.
LuckyChap’s subsequent chapter is a wider staff effort
The most recent firm improvement arrived on October 20. Display reported that Searchlight govt Katie Goodson-Thomas will develop into president of movie at LuckyChap Worldwide, starting in January 2027. Her arrival is deliberate for subsequent yr; it shouldn’t be described as a job she has already began.
She is going to work with co-managing administrators Mona Qureshi and Tanya Qureshi. The report identifies Robbie, Ackerley, McNamara and Milan Popelka as LuckyChap’s U.S. companions. Their assertion welcomed Goodson-Thomas’s expertise and artistic judgement, putting the appointment inside the firm’s growing worldwide ambitions.
Mediawan’s personal announcement describes LuckyChap Worldwide as a London-based three way partnership supposed to make movie and tv throughout the UK and Europe. That context reveals how far the operation extends past a family partnership. Different executives, filmmakers and manufacturing companions assist decide what reaches an viewers.
The result’s a extra grounded approach to take a look at Robbie and Ackerley collectively. Their marriage has a public historical past, however the work has its personal documented particulars: shared producing credit, completely different tasks on particular person movies and an organization bringing in additional collaborators. These particulars are substantial sufficient with out inventing the conversations behind them.
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