Background and career
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne ( KAH-rə DEL-ə-VEEN; born 12 August 1992) is an English model, actress, and musician. Delevingne won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014, and has also received three Teen Choice Awards and nominations for a British Independent Film Award and an MTV Movie & TV Award.
Delevingne started her acting career with a minor role in the 2012 film adaptation of Anna Karenina by Joe Wright. Her film roles include Margo Roth Spiegelman in the romantic mystery film Paper Towns (2015), the Enchantress in the comic book film Suicide Squad (2016), and Laureline in Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on 12 August 1992, in Hammersmith, London, the youngest daughter of property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne and Pandora Stevens Delevingne. Her paternal grandaunt was the courtesan Doris Castlerosse. Her maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Jocelyn Stevens. Her paternal grandmother was Angela Delevingne and her maternal grandmother was Jane Armyne Sheffield, a granddaughter of Lionel Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet. She has two elder sisters, Chloe and Poppy, and a paternal half-brother, Alexander Jaffe.
Delevingne has 16 godparents, including actress Joan Collins and Eton College provost and former Condé Nast International president Nicholas Coleridge.
Delevingne grew up in Belgravia and, from 2003 to 2009, attended Bedales School, which she found challenging because of her dyspraxia and depression. In 2009, she left school and signed as a model with Storm Management.
How Cara Delevingne makes money
Later that year, she was ranked sixth on the "World's Highest-Paid Models" list by Forbes, earning an estimated US$3.5 million (£2.7 million). By 2015, she had moved up to second on this list, earning $9 million (£7 million).
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth, in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
