When I was younger, I hated myself, so I preferred being other people.” She added later: “I always wanted to act, from when I was four years old. “I went through so much therapy as a kid, and I hated it, and because you get so used to saying the same thing over and over again, it just becomes a story,” she has said. Photograph: Splash News/CorbisĪlthough Delevingne can boast Joan Collins as a godmother and owes her middle name, Jocelyn, to her late grandfather, Sir Jocelyn Stevens, a former chairman of English Heritage, she regards her childhood as something of an ordeal. Their father, Charles, is a successful property tycoon and their mother, Pandora, is a former society beauty, now working on a memoir about her battle with heroin addiction, who has worked as a personal shopper for Selfridges, helping the Duchess of Cambridge to select outfits for her public duties.Ĭara Delevingne at the New York premiere of Paper Towns. It was rather different for Delevingne and for her sister, and fellow model, Poppy. But Delevingne says her role model is the former model and Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron.įor some, modelling is the way out of a tough life, and the fortunes of Moss and Naomi Campbell certainly changed utterly when they were scouted. Twiggy, who made the transition from figurehead of “swinging London” to star of The Boyfriend in 1971, did not subsequently land many major roles. She appeared as Aphrodite in Clash of the Titans and opposite Richard Coyle in Pusher in 2012. Agyness Deyn, the supermodel from Rochdale, has returned to modelling part-time this year after four years of concentrating on acting and clothes design. The path from model to actress is well-trodden, but is not often an easy stroll. “Before, I didn’t, and it took a huge toll on my health and happiness.” Yet Delevingne still plans to take the odd catwalk job if she fancies it. Modelling was “killing my soul”, she has complained, comparing herself to a squeezed lemon. “It felt crazy to turn down roles because I thought I’d do anything to be an actress, but I realised my dignity’s more important than that,” she said.
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Instead, she has hung on for the right opportunity. She has confidently rejected the sort of screen roles commonly offered to models, “the part of a Swedish model or an English one, where I die all the time, or stupid girls in, like, American Pie 27”.
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The 22-year-old model – until now best-known for her full eyebrows, for sticking out her tongue at the camera, or for her high-profile gay romance with the singing star St Vincent – has been judged convincing as the cool and apparently unknowable Margo in this adaptation of a novel for young adults by John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars.ĭelevingne, who grew up in London, left her agency, Storm Model Management, earlier this summer and has talked openly about her acting ambitions. Justin Chang of Variety called her “the real find of the film”, suggesting that “on the evidence of her work here, this striking actress is here to stay”.
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She was hailed as the new Kate Moss, but is Cara Delevingne about to find her true vocation as a Hollywood leading lady? The American release this weekend of her latest film, Paper Towns, sees the British supermodel cast in her first substantial lead role and could mark the turning point in her bid to become a serious actress.Ĭritics have already declared that Delevingne has found her true home on the screen.