'Suicide Squad''s Margot Robbie to Play Infamous Figure Skater Tonya Harding
Australian actress Margot Robbie is only 25, but her Hollywood come-up is pretty far along already. Since starring in 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street, she's worked with Will Smith in Focus and Tina Fey in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Her biggest look yet will come in August when she almost definitely steals the show in DC's Suicide Squad as the Joker-affiliated Harley Quinn.
Now Robbie's booked another at least somewhat villainous role as the lead of I, Tonya. The Tonya in question is Tonya Harding, the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships victor and Figure Skating World Championships runner-up. If you weren't sentient during the massive scandal, the villainy part came in when Harding and her husband hired some goons to break the leg of competitor Nancy Kerrigan.
"Kerrigan wound up winning the silver medal at [the 1994] Olympics, and the completely distracted Harding finished eighth as her life was circling the drain," writes Deadline, which broke the news. "As the ensuing scandal unfolded, the USFSA stripped Harding of her 1994 championship and banned her for life."
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