Margot Robbie Sets the Record Straight on Roots

has corrected a long-standing internet rumour about where she was born in Australia, with most believing she is from Dalby.

The Australian actress, 34, has long been reported as being born and , though she's now revealed she actually hails from a city. 

'The internet has had my place of birth wrong like the whole time,' Margot told UK radio station Magic FM recently.

'It says I was born in Dalby, which is where my family is from, but I wasn't.'

She revealed that she was in fact born in a much larger city, and expressed surprise that this error had persisted throughout her career.

'I was born on the . It's not a stupid rumour, it's just amazing that this far along it is still incorrect,' she said. 

Dalby is a small Queensland town with a population of around 12,000, located about 260 kilometres from the Gold Coast. 

Although Margot was not born in Dalby, she spent a significant portion of her childhood there. 

'My family is from a little country town called Dalby, which is three hours inland,' Margot revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2014, shortly after her breakthrough Hollywood role in The Wolf of Wall Street.

'It's very small. When I go back to Dalby, everyone's like, "What's been happening with you?" and I'm like, "Oh, I did a movie and stuff, what's been happening out here?" They're like, "We're getting a Big W."'

She joked that life moves at a significantly slower pace in the small town, to the extent that getting a chain department store there was a milestone for locals.

'For two years, all the town talked about was getting this Big W, and then it came, and then everyone would talk about how good Big W was,' she said.

'So for a really long time, that's what's been happening out at Dalby.'

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