Cara Delevingne

Model

Birthday August 12, 1992

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace Hammersmith, London, England

Age 31 years old

Nationality United Kingdom

Height 5ft 8in

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1920

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.

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.

1936

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), William the Conqueror (26th great-grandfather), James IV of Scotland (15th great-grandfather), and William I, Prince of Orange (13th great-grandfather).

Her godparents are Dame Joan Collins and Sir Nicholas Coleridge.

Delevingne attended Francis Holland School for Girls in central London until she was 16 before moving to Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire.

She has dyspraxia and found school challenging.

1961

For Milan Fashion Week, she walked for Moschino, Emilio Pucci, Ermanno Scervino, Ports 1961, Anteprima, Iceberg, Gabriele Colangelo, Anthony Vaccarello, and Just Cavalli.

1992

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne (born 12 August 1992) is an English model and actress.

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on 12 August 1992, in Hammersmith, London.

Her parents are property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne and his wife Pandora Stevens.

She grew up in Belgravia, London.

She has two older sisters, including Poppy Delevingne, and a paternal half-brother.

Delevingne's maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the nephew of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton and the grandson of newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton.

2009

She signed with Storm Management after leaving school in 2009.

She signed with Storm Management in 2009.

She worked in the industry for a year before booking a paying job and went through two seasons of castings before landing her first runway show.

2010

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; two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London.

2011

Bailey cast her in the company's spring/summer 2011 campaign.

Delevingne's first catwalk appearance was at the February 2011 London Fashion Week, walking for the Burberry Prorsum A/W collection.

2012

Delevingne won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014.

Delevingne started her acting career with a minor role in the 2012 film adaptation of Anna Karenina by Joe Wright.

Delevingne was scouted by Burberry's Christopher Bailey in 2012 while working part-time in the office of a fashion website.

Later that year, she opened and closed the Burberry Prorsum S/S 2012 collection.

She commenced the early 2012 season by walking in the Chanel Haute-Couture spring show at the Grand Palais.

New York Fashion Week was the first of the "big four" fashion weeks, where Delevingne walked in nine shows for fashion houses including Jason Wu, Rag & Bone, Thakoon, Donna Karan, Tory Burch, Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera.

During London Fashion Week, she exclusively walked for the Burberry Prorsum Womenswear A/W 2012 show.

She walked in six shows during the Milan Fashion Week, and walked for Fendi, Trussardi, Moschino, Blumarine, DSquared2 and Dolce & Gabbana.

Paris Fashion Week was the final week of Fashion Month, in which she walked in seven shows for Nina Ricci, Sonia Rykiel, Cacharel, Stella McCartney, Paul & Joe, Kenzo and Chanel.

This was the beginning of what would turn out to be a longlasting professional relationship with Chanel's head designer and creative director, Karl Lagerfeld.

In an interview with Elle after the show, Lagerfeld said, "Cara is different. She's full of life, full of pep. I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny."

The international Fashion Month began again in September 2012, to showcase spring/summer collections for 2013.

During New York Fashion Week, she walked for designers including Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta and Marchesa.

She walked exclusively for Burberry in London.

She followed this appearance by walking in shows for Sass & Bide, Issa, Preen, Topshop, Mary Katrantzou, Giles, and Matthew Williamson.

2015

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).

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."

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.

Delevingne had her first modelling job at age ten in an editorial shot by Bruce Weber for Vogue Italia alongside model Lady Eloise Anson.