Cara Jocelyn Delevingne, born in London, England, to Pandora Anne Stevens and Charles Hamar Delevingne, a property developer, from prominent upper-class families with Viscounts, Baronets, Majors, and Lord Mayors of London among her ancestors.
She started her career as a fashion model, being the face of Burberry's Spring/Summer 2011 and 2012 campaigns, walking the catwalk at the 2012 Victoria's Secret fashion show, and winning Model Of The Year 2012 at the British Fashion Awards. She appeared on the covers of Vogue UK, Vogue Korea, i-D, Love, Russh, Jalouse, and Style Spring 2013 issue, ranking #17 on models 50 Top Models (2013). She modeled for brands such as Moschino, Jason Wu, Oscar de la Renta, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, and Stella McCartney, and featured in advertising campaigns for high-end brands including H&M, Zara, Chanel, and Burberry's Beauty campaign.
In 2012, she began her acting career, 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),winning 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) starring 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) with Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz, Sergeant Laureline in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) with Ethan Hawke, recurring as Alice Banks in Only Murders in the Building (2021) for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, series regular on Carnival Row (2019) playing a refugee faerie with an Irish accent alongside Orlando Bloom, series regular on American Horror Story (2011) Season 12, and voiceover work on Futurama (1999) playing herself.
Cara has also been a force on stage, playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre in London in 2024 to rave reviews, requiring her to sing, dance, and showcase her acting talents.
