Will Margot Robbie play Joker's girlfriend in 'Suicide Squad'?

Margot Robbie, the Australian actress is reportedly going to play the role of Joker's girlfriend, Harley Quinn, in the upcoming film Suicide Squad.

The rumours about the 24-year-old Wolf Of The Wall Street star playing the sidekick to the supervillain, comes after the reports that the American actor Jared Leto was to play the Joker in the film, the Hollywood Reporter reported.

The character was introduced in 1992 TV cartoon Batman: The Animated Series, and has been portrayed as a supervillain in her own right, who suffers countless abuses at the hands of her vicious beau.

The Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment project has been slated to for a 2016 release.