Margot Robbie has quietly dropped her famous surname in official corporate records for the production company she co-founded with husband Tom Ackerley, a change that went unnoticed until this week.
The 36-year-old actress now appears as "Margot Elise Ackerley" in director filings for LuckyChap Entertainment at Companies House, the United Kingdom's business registration agency. The filing, which updated her name from "Margot Elise Robbie," was received Monday and showed up in public records by Tuesday.
Robbie had been listed under her birth surname since she was appointed a director of LuckyChap in May 2015. That means the corporate record carried the name "Robbie" for roughly a decade, through her wedding, the massive commercial success of "Barbie," and the birth of her first child, before the switch finally appeared.
No public explanation accompanied the change. Robbie is expected to keep using her maiden name professionally, though no spokesperson or representative has been quoted on the matter.
Robbie and Ackerley, both 36, met in 2013 on the set of the World War II drama "Suite Française." She starred in the film. He worked as an assistant director. They began dating roughly a year later and married in December 2016 during a private ceremony in Byron Bay, Australia, about two years after their relationship started.
Robbie described the courtship to Vogue in 2016 in characteristically blunt terms.
"I was the ultimate single gal. The idea of relationships made me want to vomit. And then this crept up on me."
She added that the two had been close friends before anything romantic developed.
"We were friends for so long. I was always in love with him, but I thought, 'Oh, he would never love me back. Don't make it weird, Margot. Don't be stupid and tell him that you like him.' And then it happened, and I was like, 'Of course we're together. This makes so much sense, the way nothing has ever made sense before.'"
Ackerley, originally from Surrey, England, had his own brush with the screen long before producing. He appeared in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," though the specific role has never been widely detailed.
The couple co-founded LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014 alongside Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr. The production house has since become one of the more successful independent outfits in Hollywood, with credits including "I, Tonya," "Birds of Prey," "Barbie," and "Saltburn."
Its pipeline remains full. Upcoming projects include a live-action adaptation of "The Sims," an "Ocean's Eleven" prequel directed by Bradley Cooper, and a "Sleepy Hollow" adaptation starring Sydney Sweeney.
Ackerley told the Times of London in 2024 that the overlap between work and home life with Robbie had become total.
"It's seamless. We don't have a toggle on, toggle off. It's all become one thing."
The couple welcomed their first child, a son, in October 2024. The boy's name has not been made public.
The timing is the loose thread. Robbie married Ackerley nearly a decade ago. She could have updated the corporate filing at any point in the years since. Nothing in the public record explains why the change landed this week, whether it was tied to a broader legal update, the birth of their son, or simply a long-delayed piece of paperwork that finally reached the front of the pile.
Companies House filings are public documents in the UK, which means anyone can pull them up and see the change. The company's registration number, 09224539, links directly to the officer records where "Margot Elise Ackerley" now sits in place of the name audiences around the world recognize.
On screen and on posters, she will almost certainly remain Margot Robbie. But on paper, in the country where her husband grew up and their company is registered, the woman behind LuckyChap is now an Ackerley.
In an era when celebrity culture treats marriage as disposable and maiden names as identity politics, there is something quietly traditional about the move, even if it took nearly ten years to show up in the filing cabinet.
