Cara Delevingne
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne (/ˈkɑːrə ˌdɛləˈviːn/ KAH-rə DEL-ə-VEEN; born 12 August 1992) is an English model and actress.[4] She signed with Storm Management after leaving school in 2009.[5] Delevingne won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014,[6] and has also received three Teen Choice Awards and nominations for a British Independent Film Award and an MTV Movie & TV Award.
Cara Delevingne
- Model
- actress
- singer
2009–present
Charles Delevingne (father)
Poppy Delevingne (sister)
Sir Jocelyn Stevens (maternal grandfather)
Angela Delevingne (paternal grandmother)
Blonde[3]
Blue[3]
Delevingne started her acting career with a minor role in the 2012 film adaptation of Anna Karenina by Joe Wright. Her most notable 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).
Early life
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on 12 August 1992,[7] in Hammersmith, London. Her parents are property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne and his wife Pandora Stevens. She grew up in Belgravia, London.[8][9][10] She has two older sisters, including Poppy Delevingne,[10][11] and a paternal half-brother.[11] Delevingne's maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens,[12][8] the nephew of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton and the grandson of newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton.[13][14]Her paternal grandmother, Hon. Angela Delevingne was the daughter of Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, who was the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922, and Margery Spencer whose sister Muriel Ashley, Lady Mount Temple was the step mother of Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. Doris Browne, Viscountess Castlerosse, was Delevingne's paternal great-aunt.
Her maternal grandmother Janie Sheffield, a granddaughter of Sir Berkeley Sheffield, 6th Baronet,of Normanby Hall, was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.[8][15] Through one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet, Delevingne descends from the Anglo-Jewish Faudel-Phillips baronets and the 10th Marquess of Huntly, Chief of Clan Gordon;[16] two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London.[17][18]
Through the Sheffield baronets, whose family first built the Buckingham House, Delevingne is a direct descendant of Charlemagne, King of the Franks (36th great-grandfather),[19]Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons (33th great-grandfather),[20] William the Conqueror (26th great-grandfather),[21] Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster (20th great-grandfather),[22] James IV of Scotland (15th great-grandfather),[23] and William I, Prince of Orange (13th great-grandfather).[24] Her godparents are Dame Joan Collins[25] and former president of Condé Nast International, Sir Nicholas Coleridge.[26]
Delevingne attended Francis Holland School for Girls in central London until she was 16[5] before moving to Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire. She has dyspraxia and found school challenging.[27] In June 2015, in an interview with Vogue, Delevingne talked about her battle with depression when she was 15: "I was hit with a massive wave of depression and anxiety and self-hatred, where the feelings were so painful that I would slam my head against a tree to try to knock myself out."[9] At 16, after completing her GCSEs, she moved to Bedales School in Hampshire to focus on drama and music. After one year, she dropped out and followed her sister Poppy into modelling.[5]