- Was among the 93 women who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault on 31 October 2017.
- Her surname is pronounced "della-veen".
- She quit modeling to focus on her acting career. (August 2015)
- Actress Dame Joan Collins is her godmother.
- She was diagnosed with anxiety and depression at age 15, dyspraxia and ADHD. She had to take six months off school during her teenage years to undergo treatment for depression.
- Sports a "XII" tattoo under her left arm since 12 is her lucky number, and the sole of her left foot has a "Made in England" tattoo.
- She is a talented beatboxer and she also plays drums and guitar.
- Has not had any formal acting training or coaching.
- Occasionally suffers from outbreaks of stress-related psoriasis.
- Younger sister of actress Poppy Delevingne.
- Much of her ancestry is English. One of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet, was from a Jewish family (from Germany and Poland), and was the grandson of a Lord Mayor of London (1896/1897), Benjamin Samuel Phillips. Cara also has Welsh, Dutch, German, French, Scottish, Jersey (Channel Islander), and Irish ancestry, and Canadian-born forebears.
- Ranked #10 on Maxin magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2014 list.
- In March 2017, she announced that she had written a novel called "Mirror, Mirror", a coming-of-age story. It was published on 5 October 2017.
- She attended Frances Holland School for Girls near Sloane Square. Later, she went to the boarding school, Bedales.
- She often photobombs at events.
- Her first appearance was in Vogue Italia at age 10, shot by Bruce Weber.
- The "Mulberry Cara" designer 'camouflage' backpack is named after her.
- Descendant in female lines of British peerage and landed gentry, of Dutch patriciate, and of Portuguese nobility.
- Her paternal great-grandfather, Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, born in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, was a British politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1920 to 1922. Her maternal grandfather, Sir Jocelyn Stevens, was a publishing executive and chairman of charity English Heritage; through him, Cara descends from newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton. Her maternal grandmother, Jane Stevens, was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.
- She auditioned for the title role in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), which went to Mia Wasikowska.
- Along with Sir John Hurt, Helena Bonham Carter, Idris Elba and Keira Knightley, Delevingne announced her support on the vote for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union for the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. (June 23, 2016)
- Is a huge fan of actress Charlize Theron.
- Her pet rabbit's name is Cecil.
- Of Huguenot patrilineal descent.
- Has remote Portuguese and Italian ancestry through an ancestress sister of the 1st Viscount of Benagazil Nobleman of Coat of Arms of Machado (crest) with crown of Viscount and with crown of Count for being a Peer of the Realm in Portugal.
- Good friends with Fiona Apple, Alexa Chung, Amber Heard, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Margot Robbie, Rita Ora, Selena Gomez, Suki Waterhouse, Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner.
- She identifies as genderfluid.
- "Cara" is the word for "face" in Spanish, "expensive" or "dear" in Italian, "friend" in Gaelic, and "way" in Indonesian.
- Great-granddaughter in female line of the 1st Viscount Greenwood, of Holbourne, in the County of London, in the Peerage of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1st Baron Greenwood, of Llanbister, in the County of Radnor, in the Peerage of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1st Greenwood of Llanbister, in the County of Radnor, Baronet, in the Baronetage of Great Britain and Ireland; great-great-granddaughter in female line of the 1st Hulton of Downside, in the Parish of Leatherhead, in the County of Surrey, Baronet, in the Baronetage of Great Britain and Ireland; great-great-granddaughter in female line of the 6th Sheffield of Normanby, in the County of Lincoln, Baronet, in the Baronetage of Great Britain; great-great-granddaughter in female line of the 3rd Faudel-Phillips of Grosvenor Gardens, in the Parish of St George Hanover Square, in the County of London, and of Queen's Gardens, West Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Baronet, in the Baronetage of Great Britain and Ireland.
- She is the voice of DJ Cara of Non-Stop-Pop FM in the video game Grand Theft Auto V.
- Second cousin once removed of Samantha Cameron.
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