biography of Cara Delevingne

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born in London, England, to Pandora Anne (Stevens) and Charles Hamar Delevingne, a property developer. Her parents are both from prominent upper-class families, with her ancestors including Viscounts (Greenwood), Baronets (Hulton, Faudel-Phillips), Majors and Lord Mayors of London.

She began her career as a fashion model, previously the face of Burberry's Spring/Summer 2011 and 2012 campaigns. She also walked down the catwalk as a model at the 2012 Victoria's Secret fashion show and won Model Of The Year 2012 at the British Fashion Awards. Delevingne was on the covers of Vogue UK, Vogue Korea, i-D, Love, Russh, Jalouse and Style Spring 2013 issue. She was ranked #17 on models 50 Top Models (2013). Cara also appeared on the catwalk for brands such as Moschino, Jason Wu, Oscar de la Renta, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi and Stella McCartney. Cara has been featured in advertising campaigns for high-end brands including H&M, Zara, Chanel, and the face of Burberry's Beauty campaign.

In 2012, she began her career as an actress, starring in the Focus Feature's drama romance Anna Karenina (2012) as Princess Sorokina alongside Keira Knightley and Jude Law. By 2015, she was a leading lady in the 20th Century Fox adventure-comedy film Paper Towns (2015) which won her two Teen Choice Awards as a Breakout Star and Choice Summer Movie Star, as well as a Rising Star from CinemaCon. She won her second Teen Choice Award for her role of June Moone in Warner Bros.'s Suicide Squad (2016) which starred Margot Robbie, Ben Affleck, Will Smith, and David Harbour.

She has also played a wide variety of characters in art-driven indies and large-scale television series, such as Annetje in Tulip Fever (2017) (2017) with Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz, Sergeant Laureline in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)(2017) with Ethan Hawke, recurring as Alice Banks in Only Murders in the Building (2021) (2022) for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, series regular on Carnival Row (2019) (2019 and 2023) playing a refugee faerie with an Irish accent alongside Orlando Bloom, series regular on American Horror Story (2011) Season 12 (2023-2024), and voiceover work on Futurama (1999) playing herself (2023-2024).

Cara has additionally been a force on stage, playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre in London in 2024 to rave reviews. The role required her to sing and dance on stage, as well as showcase her acting, in what was written as a stunning display of talent.

Delevingne sings and plays the drums and guitar. Over 2011 and 2012, Delevingne wrote and recorded two albums of music under artist manager Simon Fuller and was subsequently offered a record deal. However, she turned the deal down due to the fact that her name would be changed. In 2013, she recorded an acoustic duet cover version of Sonnentanz with British soul and jazz singer-songwriter Will Heard. She covered The Strangeloves "I Want Candy" in the mini film called Gang, which was the title of the 2013 A/W Katie Grand Loves Hogan collection and the name of the large-format magazine created to celebrate the collaboration. 

Delevingne teamed up with Pharrell Williams to make the song "CC the World", which was used for the short Chanel film Reincarnation in which both Pharrell and Delevingne star. This was released to the public on 1 December 2014. The duo performed the song before a live audience for the Chanel show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in March 2015. On 28 July 2017, Delevingne released the music video for her song "I Feel Everything" from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.  Delevingne's background vocals are featured on the song "Pills" from the 2017 studio album, Masseduction, by American musician St. Vincent, whom Delevingne previously dated from 2014 to 2016.Her backing vocals are featured on the title track of Fiona Apple's 2020 album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters. 

In October 2017, Delevingne made her debut as a novelist of young adult fiction with her book Mirror, Mirror, which contains an LGBT theme,  co-written with British writer Rowan Coleman.In 2020, Delevingne - together with her older sisters Chloe and Poppy - launched Della Vite, a line of vegan Prosecco. In December 2022, Delevingne featured in her series Planet Sex for BBC Three, shown over six episodes, exploring sexuality including her own, in various worldwide locations  From 11 March 2024, Delevigne will make her stage debut taking over as Sally Bowles in the West End musical Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre) opposite Luke Treadaway as the Emcee for 12 weeks

Delevingne is queer and pansexual, having previously identified as bisexual. In June 2015, she confirmed that she was in a relationship with American musician St. Vincent They separated in September 2016. In May 2018, Delevingne came out as genderfluid.  She uses she/her pronouns.  In June 2019, she confirmed that she was in a relationship with actress and model Ashley Benson. In April 2020, the couple split after two years of dating.  Delevingne has been dating musician Leah Mason, also known as Minke, since 2022. 

Delevingne is a self-described animal lover. Following the killing of Cecil the lion in 2015, she auctioned off her personal TAG Heuer watch in aid of wildlife conservation, raising £18,600 for WildCRU. 

She founded EcoResolution, an environmental justice platform with Advaya and has given speeches about climate change and supported stronger environmental regulation. She supports making ecocide a crime at the International Criminal Court stating “mass damage and destruction of nature is called ecocide and it should be an international crime, just like genocide.

In 2021, Delevingne joined the Rewriting Extinction campaign to fight the climate and biodiversity crisis through comics. She co-created at least one short story comic which was released in the book The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World on 28 October 2021 by DK. She said about the campaign, "Through storytelling, community building and action we rewrite the cultural narratives driving extinction." 

At the Women in the World summit in October 2015, Delevingne spoke about her battle with depression, which began at age 15, when she discovered her mother's drug addiction. The following year, she left school for six months and agreed to go on medication, which she said may have saved her life. In 2017, on This Morning, she revealed that she also has ADHD.

In October 2017, Delevingne alleged that circa 2016, producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed her, attempted to kiss her without consent, and propositioned her for a threesome in a hotel room in exchange for a role. Despite declining, she was still cast in the film, but says she regretted it because his actions terrified her. The Weinstein Company produced the 2017 film Tulip Fever, which starred Delevingne. She also alleges that circa 2014, he told her she would never work as an actress in Hollywood because of her sexuality. 

In a March 2023 interview with Vogue, she revealed that she had checked herself into rehab in late 2022 and entered a twelve-step program, and had been sober since then. 

Delevingne has several tattoos. Her first tattoo was a lion on her finger, representing her zodiac sign of Leo.She has a tattoo of her lucky number, the Roman numeral XII, on her side under her right arm, and "MADE IN ENGLAND" on the sole of her left foot.  She has said that her most important tattoo is the elephant on her right arm, in memory of her late grandmother  Her initials "CJD" are on her hand. 

In the early hours of 15 March 2024, Delevingne's home in Studio City, Los Angeles, caught fire. Ninety-four firefighters from the city of Los Angeles responded to the call but the property was declared a total loss. A firefighter and a person who was in the house were injured, but Delevingne's two cats made it out alive; Delevingne was not at the mansion at the time of the fire. The following day, it was revealed that the cause of the fire was most likely "electrical". 

Year	Title	Role
2012	Anna Karenina	Princess Sorokina
2014	Reincarnation by Chanel	Naughty Barmaid Empress Elisabeth of Austria
	The Face of an Angel	Melanie
2015	Paper Towns	Margo Roth Spiegelman
	Pan	Mermaid
	The 1989 World Tour Live	Herself
2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
	Kids in Love	Viola
	Suicide Squad	June Moone / Enchantress
2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Laureline
	Tulip Fever	Annetje
2018	London Fields	Kath Talent
	Her Smell	Cassie
2020	Life in a Year	Isabelle
	Miss Americana	Herself
2022	Tell It Like a Woman	Validation