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In final talks to play lead role ... Former 'Neighbours' starlet Margot Robbie. Source: Getty Images

FORMER "Neighbours" starlet Margot Robbie may have had a bit of bad luck, with her airline TV series Pan Am being axed in the US.

But the up-and-coming actress, currently shooting comedy movie About Time with Rachael McAdams in England, is being tipped for one of the year's biggest film roles.

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The 21-year-old Melbourne local is reportedly in final talks with producers of the much-buzzed-about Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf Of Wall Street - opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.

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According to industry website Deadline, Robbie is tipped to play the female lead in the film that stars DiCaprio as the real-life (and now reformed) booze-swilling, drug-inhaling Wall Street broker Jordan Belfort.

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