--- title: Saturday Night Live: Margot Robbie Will Host Season Premiere description: The 'Suicide Squad' actress will be accompanied by musical guest The Weeknd for the season premiere of 'Saturday Night Live' on October 1. canonical: https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-22T22:03:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:55.255Z og:title: Margot Robbie Will Host the SNL Season Premiere in October og:description: The 'Suicide Squad' actress will be accompanied by musical guest The Weeknd. og:url: https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "Suicide Squad" - European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Margot Robbie Will Host the SNL Season Premiere in October twitter:description: The 'Suicide Squad' actress will be accompanied by musical guest The Weeknd. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Margot Robbie Will Host _Saturday Night Live'_s Season Premiere > Sponsored content. 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Fred Duval—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2016 10:03 PM UTC [_Suicide Squad_ star](http://time.com/4368577/margot-robbie-suicide-squad-harley-quinn/?iid=sr-link1) Margot Robbie is on a roll: the [Aussie actress](http://time.com/4394682/margot-robbie-aussie-slang/?iid=sr-link3) will host the season premiere of NBC’s _Saturday Night Live_ alongside musical guest The Weeknd on Oct. 1. The live comedy show is a rite of passage of sorts for celebrities. And while some of Robbie’s roles to date have been of the dramatic variety (as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in [_The Wolf of Wall Street_](http://time.com/4368577/margot-robbie-suicide-squad-harley-quinn/?iid=sr-link1), for instance), her turn as the diabolical Harley Quinn in _Suicide Squad_ and her precise comedic timing [in ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDa3HXRU6Y)[_The Big Short_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDa3HXRU6Y)prove she’s got plenty of comedic range for SNL to work with. Robbie also recently announced that she will be [starring in and co-producing](http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/margot-robbie-to-produce-suicide-squad-spin-off) a _Suicide Squad_ spin-off about her character. The Weeknd, meanwhile, [just released the first single](http://time.com/4503770/weeknd-new-single-starboy-daft-punk/?iid=sr-link1) off of his upcoming third studio album, _Starboy._ > [](https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/779074322057101313) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/"},"headline":"Margot Robbie Will Host Saturday Night Live's Season Premiere","datePublished":"2016-09-22T22:03:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:55.255Z","description":"The Weeknd will perform","url":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Suicide Squad\" - European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals","caption":"\"Suicide Squad\" - European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals","creditText":"Fred Duval—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/","name":"Margot Robbie Will Host Saturday Night Live's Season Premiere"}}]}] ```