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Cara Delevingne is considered the model of this time, with 14.3 million people following her closely on Instagram alone as she reps Burberry, Yves Saint Laurent and DKNY, just to name a few. She’s known for her signature eyebrows in the fashion industry, but she’s proved to be a triple threat as a model, actress and singer (and a teen idol, as a result of her openness on social media). The 22-year-old soared to popularity as an A-list supermodel in just five years, having walked 39 different shows during one summer/spring season, and is taking on the motion picture industry with several projects already under her belt.

Straight to Vogue

She appeared on “Vogue Italia” at age 10 in a feature for hat designer Philip Treacy. Fashion photographer Bruce Weber spotted her and requested to shoot her. “I think she is going to be as big as Kate Moss. If not even bigger,” he said of Delevingne.

Almost Alice

Delevingne developed hopes of becoming an actress after she tried out for Tim Burton’s movie production of “Alice in Wonderland.” Then a 17-year-old attending boarding school, she sent in an audition tape showcasing a dramatic interpretation of Alice. It left an impression on Lili Zanuck, the wife of producer Richard Zanuck. She approached Delevingne at a wedding and said, “You don’t know me, but I know exactly who you are,” which later led to a visit to Burton’s house.

“I didn’t get the part, but that experience lit a fire in me,” Delevingne recalled.

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The start of Delevingne’s modeling career is somewhat of a coincidence. After her audition for Alice, she was discovered by Sarah Doukas, head of Strom model agency and her schoolmate’s mother. For someone who’s never seriously considered modelng, her career has taken off rapidly, becoming the face of Burberry two years after signing on to Storm—all the while keeping acting a priority.

“I used to always be so angry about modeling. I was always like, ‘F***, I’m never going to able to act because I’m a model,’” she said, while acknowledging the opportunities she got from modeling, such as her own line of Mulberry bags.

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Acting Debut

For Delevingne, acting has always been her end goal; she only started modeling to earn money to put herself through drama school. "The thrill of acting is making a charcter real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera," she said on her recent "Vogue" cover story. Her indifferent attitude towards fashion and her goofy public persona are uncommon among models to say the least. 

“I was incredibly lucky to do as well as I’ve done, it’s not easy, there’s so many models go through so much shit, and it’s just, if you have a brain, which everyone does, use it and try and do something else,” she said last year. And she led by example: her first appearance was a small cameo in the 2012 Joe Wright film, “Anna Karenina.” From there, she gets more screen time on the thriller released last-week “The Face of an Angel,” as she plays a young tour guide in a story loosely based on the Amanda Knox case.

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She has her first leading role alongside Nat Wolff in the adaptation of John Green’s “Paper Towns,” set to be released next month. Green said he didn’t know who Delevigne was when he watched her audition, but her portrayal of teenager Margo Spiegelman hit the nail on the head. The best-selling author’s goal was to break down the movie cliché that is the one-dimensional image of female characters, who are often romanticized with little regard for their complexity. 

“Cara understands very profoundly what it’s like to be treated as a two-dimensional image, more than anyone I know,” he told the crowd at a BookCon panel.

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Fantasy and Comic

We’ll be seeing the British actress in a wide range of roles across different genres. Later this year, Delevingne will hit the screens as a mermaid in fantasy film “Pan,” starring Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried. In perhaps the biggest project to date for the emerging starlet, she joins Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto in the comic book adaptation “Suicide Squad.” The highly anticipated film, which follows a group of imprisoned villains tasked with secret missions from the government, will feature Delevingne as the Enchantress. Although Delevingne admits she’s not the biggest fan of superhero movies, she says the action film will be worth the wait for fans.

This may sound like a long list already, but Delevingne is keeping busy with a couple Indie films as well. Delevingne stars in a 17th century romance film set in Holland, “Tulip Fever.” There’s no news on the release date, but it’s expected to come out sometime this fall. She also confirmed on Instagram her casting in the British coming-of-age film, “Kids In Love,” set to be released sometime this year.

So there you have it. There’s no shortage of the up-and-coming actress’ appearance in films across the board, and moviegoers will be eager to see how she handles these distinct characters. 

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