This model-turned-actress in 'Suicide Squad' is taking Hollywood by storm
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne, 23, grew up as a brooding little girl immersed in the high-society lifestyle of London's Belgravia neighborhood.
Her mother, Pandora, is a socialite-turned-personal shopper, and her father, Charles, works as a property developer. Cara has two sisters.
Source: Telegraph
Cara struggled in school. Her dyspraxia, a problem with coordinating thoughts and motions, made reading and writing a challenge.
Source: Vogue
She spent her childhood in and out of mental health professionals' offices, also coping with her mother's drug addictions.
Source: Vogue
She escaped her troubles by watching thrillers and singing. "I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started," Cara says. "The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress."
Source: Vogue
A 10-year-old Cara made her modeling debut in Italian Vogue, with legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber behind the camera. She recalls it being a bit "odd."
Source: Telegraph
While attending boarding school, she threw herself into drama. It was there that Sarah Doukas, the head of Storm modeling agency and a parent of a student, discovered her.
Source: Daily Mail
In order to make enough money to put herself through drama school, she dropped out of her school and signed with Storm in 2009. Cara worked for a year before booking a paid job.
Source: New York Magazine and Vogue
"The first time I walked into Burberry, the woman just said, 'Turn around, go away,'" Cara remembers. Finally, Burberry's Christopher Bailey (who succeeded Angela Ahrendts as CEO) hired her for the brand's spring 2011 campaign.
Source: Vogue
Bailey was reportedly "so seduced by her energy that he thought that she would be the perfect person to represent the brand." Seemingly overnight, she became the face of the British luxury fashion house.
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She booked advertising campaigns for H&M, Dominic Jones Jewellery, Blumarine, DKNY, Tom Ford, Yves Saint Laurent, Zara, and Chanel.
Source: Wikipedia
Her success in modeling put acting on the back-burner. "I used to always be so angry about modeling," Cara says. "I was always like, 'F--k, I'm never going to able to act because I'm a model.'"
Source: Telegraph
She got a tattoo that says "Made in England" on the bottom of her foot, "to represent that I felt like a doll for so long," Cara says.
Source: The Guardian
Along the way, she made some famous friends.
She's been spotted hanging out with everyone from Taylor Swift and Rihanna, to Kate Moss and Karlie Kloss.
In between work hours, she partied. Hard. "I had to be doing things with people at all times," she says. "The life of the party is an easy part for me to play. It rots your insides, though."
Source: Vogue
In 2012, the runway guru made her way to the big screen in the Academy Award-nominated "Anna Karenina," starring Keira Knightley. She played a lower-billed character, Princess Sorokina.
She nabbed small roles in a handful of movies and TV shows, including "The Face of an Angel" alongside Kate Beckinsale.
Cara starred in an indie drama based on a young adult novel of the same name, "Paper Towns." Director Jake Schreier said she won the role in the first audition.
Source: Vogue
I had her improvise with Nat (who plays her love interest) ... and it was gripping," he says. "She won the part in the room that day.
Source: Vogue
She made a splash on screen as a mermaid in the Peter Pan adaptation, "Pan."
Now, the leading lady takes on her most challenging role yet as Enchantress in "Suicide Squad."
In the comics, June Moone lived an ordinary life until she stumbled on something she wasn't supposed to see. Her snooping endowed her with magical powers, including healing and teleportation.
Source: Moviepilot and Wikipedia
I'm actually playing two different parts," Delevingne says of the role. "I'm playing opposites, a mousey kind of scientist and a crazy, feral witch, which is great. Both sides of my personality.
Source: Tech Times
The actress' chances of crossover-fame grow stronger every day. "I'm still learning. I act for love. I give it my all," Cara tells Vogue. "I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all."
Source: The Daily Mail
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