Cara Delevingne

Biography of Cara Delevingne

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on August 12, 1992 in London, England. She is a British model and actress.

Cara Delevingne is the youngest of the three children born to Charles Delevingne and former It girl and model Pandora Stevens. Born in Hammersmith, London, she grew up in the affluent boroughs of Mayfair and Belgravia. She attended the Francis Holland School in central London for girls until she was 16, after which she moved to the Bedales School in Hampshire.

Her sisters are Chloe Delevingne and model Poppy Delevingne. Her grandfather, Jocelyn Stevens, was the founder of Radio Caroline and early editor of Queen magazine, and her grandmother, Janie Sheffield, was Princess Margaret's maid. British actress Joan Collins is her godmother.

Delevingne's modeling career began in 2010 shooting catalogs for the Asos Fall/Winter collection. She was discovered by Sarah Doukas, the founder of the model agency Storm and discoverer of Kate Moss. Shortly thereafter she was hired by Christopher Bailey for the big catwalk, six months later she became the new face of Burberry alongside Eddie Redmayne.

Model acts for Fendi, Rag & Bone, Jason Wu, Victoria's Secret, Oscar de la Renta, Krystof Strozyna, Louise Goldin, Blumarine, Clements Ribeiro, Thakoon, Dsquared², Stella McCartney and Chanel followed, as well as work for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, V Magazine, DKNY, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Zara, Ottavio Missoni, Numéro, Emilio Pucci, Mary Katrantzou, Acne and others.

She was named "Face of the Year" by Chanel in 2012 and won the British Fashion Award in the Model of the Year category in the same year. From 2013 she advertised for the lingerie label La Perla and from spring 2015 for the shopping portal Zalando. In the 2013 Rockstar Games video game Grand Theft Auto V, Delevingne was featured as a DJ on radio station Non-Stop-Pop FM.

In 2015, she played her first starring role as Margo Roth Spiegelman in the film adaptation of the John Green novel Paper Towns. In August of the same year she announced that she wanted to focus more on acting in the future and only modeled less frequently.

She starred in the 2016 DC Comics film adaptation of Suicide Squad as the comic book character Enchantress. In 2017, she played the female lead Laureline in Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Delevingne made her debut as a singer with the song I Feel Everything, which she recorded for the film's soundtrack and was released as a single. In the fall of 2017, her book Mirror, Mirror, a novel for young people in collaboration with writer Rowan Coleman, was released.

Since 2019, she has starred in the fantasy crime series Carnival Row alongside Orlando Bloom.

From 2014 to 2016 Delevingne was in arelationshipwith the American musicianAnnie Clark. She was previously in a briefrelationshipwith film actressMichelle Rodriguez.

In October 2017, she released a statement on Instagram accusing American film producer Harvey Weinstein ofsexually harassingher during a professional meeting as part of the#MeToocampaign. Years before that he had tried to put pressure on her because of her sexual orientation. He threatened her with professional disadvantages if she made relationships with women public.

In May 2018, Delevingne stated that she identifies asgenderfluid(between female and male) but continues to use female pronouns. Your sexual orientation ispansexual.

In June 2019, Delevingne confirmed herrelationshipwith American actressAshley Benson; the couple separated in April 2020.