Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1751
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Cara Delevingne works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Cara Delevingne appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Cara. Life in a Year is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jordan Firstman, Sam Wrench, Alex Rudzinski and others, Cara Delevingne helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Life in a Year (2020) as Isabelle · Friends: The Reunion (2021) as Self · Savage X Fenty Show (2019) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #1751 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Life in a Year
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Life in a Year
Most frequent director
Alex Rudzinski
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Alex Rudzinski
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Savage X Fenty Show, Her Smell, London Fields — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Savage X Fenty Show, Her Smell, London Fields.
Most productive era
2010s
9 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.24 films | 4.53 films |
| Action | 6.33 films | 5.51 film |
| Thriller | 5.62 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 4.94 films |
| Crime | 5.61 film | — |
| Romance | 6.72 films | 7.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012Anna Karenina
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Princess Sorokina.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Life in a Year
7.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Club Kid
The current state of the argument, as Sophie.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
16 of 16 films
as Isabelle
Directed by Mitja Okorn
as Laureline
Directed by Luc Besson
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Isabelle
Life in a Year (2020)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Isabelle gives Cara Delevingne a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Friends: The Reunion (2021)
Performance score7.3
Friends: The Reunion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Laureline
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Performance score7.2
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Laureline is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Savage X Fenty Show (2019)
Performance score7.1
Savage X Fenty Show asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Isabelle
Start here. Life in a Year is the clearest statement of what Cara Delevingne does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Cara at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Life in a Year — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Savage X Fenty Show (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Friends: The Reunion (2021)
Keeps the documentary register of Savage X Fenty Show but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Friends: The Reunion but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alex Rudzinski
Director
3 films together
Notably Savage X Fenty Show
Joe Wright
Director
2 films together
Notably Anna Karenina
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Suicide Squad
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Tulip Fever
Alex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Her Smell
Mitja Okorn
Director
1 film together
Notably Life in a Year
Ben Winston
Director
1 film together
Notably Friends: The Reunion
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Tell It Like a Woman
Sam Wrench
Director
1 film together
Notably A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter
Jordan Firstman
Director
1 film together
Notably Club Kid
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alex Rudzinski
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Savage X Fenty ShowJoe Wright
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Anna KareninaMitja Okorn
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Life in a YearBen Winston
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Friends: The ReunionLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Valerian and the City of a Thousand PlanetsJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tulip FeverSam Wrench
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina CarpenterAlex Ross Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Her SmellDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Suicide SquadCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tell It Like a WomanJordan Firstman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Club KidSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Anna Karenina
as Princess Sorokina
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Cara Delevingne has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
London Fields
as Kath Talent
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Laureline
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as Laureline
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Life in a Year
as Isabelle
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tell It Like a Woman
as Validation
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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