Cara Delevingne's Real Name: Cara Jocelyn Delevingne

Quick answer: Cara Delevingne's documented full name is given as Cara Jocelyn Delevingne by Vogue Germany, which dates her birth to August 12, 1992, in London. Hello! magazine gives the same date and place under the name Cara Delevingne (Vogue Germany; Hello!).

Real name and early life

She is known professionally as Cara Delevingne. Vogue Germany names her parents as Charles Delevingne and the former model Pandora Delevingne and says she is the youngest of three sisters. Hello! names the elder sisters Chloe and Poppy, says she is the granddaughter of the publisher Sir Jocelyn Stevens, and notes that her godmother is Joan Collins. Hello! also records that Sarah Doukas of Storm Models, who had earlier discovered Kate Moss, helped launch her career, having known her since she was five. Vogue Germany says Doukas recognized her potential when she was 16 and still at a girls' school in London.

Career highlights

Vogue Germany dates an early breakthrough to work for ASOS, followed about six months later by a Burberry campaign, and says Chanel named her a face of the year in 2012, the same year she won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Hello! also records the 2012 award, campaigns including Chanel, covers for i-D, Jalouse, and Love, and a March 2013 British Vogue cover that she later described as one of the most shocking moments of her career. She later moved into acting. Hello! dates an early film appearance to Anna Karenina (2012), as Princess Sorokina, and says that by 2014 she was walking for major houses and opened and closed Chanel's spring haute couture show as one of Karl Lagerfeld's muses. In 2015 she co-starred in the John Green adaptation Paper Towns—the leading role Vogue Germany also notes—and appeared in Pan. Vogue Germany says she then stepped back from full-time modeling. Later credits include Suicide Squad, as Enchantress, the series Carnival Row, and, Hello! adds, a season of Only Murders in the Building. In a Time essay quoted by Hello!, she wrote that she had learned to treat work as only one measure of success and to spend more time on things she loved.

Name notes for searchers

Vogue Germany gives Cara Jocelyn Delevingne; Hello! uses Cara Delevingne. The professional name is Cara Delevingne. Searchers looking for the 2012 British Fashion Awards Model of the Year, or for an actress in Suicide Squad or Carnival Row, are usually aiming at the same person.