Name	Jessie Cave
Height
Naionality	English
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	London, England, UK
Famous for	Acting

Jessie Cave is an English actress, who is best known for her role as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter film series. Cave was born in west London, and is the second eldest of five siblings. Her father works as a general practitioner. Her grandfather was Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, Tasmanian-born Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave. A former county-level swimmer and ex-national tennis player, she studied Illustration and Animation at Kingston University. She had originally intended to study stage management at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and worked in London as a stagehand, before deciding to pursue acting.

Cave made her debut in the drama Summerhill, that was shown on CBBC in early 2008. An open casting call was held for the part of Lavender Brown in the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on 1 July 2007. Cave, who came from an agency, beat over 7,000 girls who turned up for the audition and obtained the role as Lavender. Cave also had a minor role in the 2009 film Inkheart as a water nymph. In June 2009, she made her West End début, playing "Thomasina" in a revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre. Cave appeared in the play Breed at Theatre 503, playing the role of Liv, from 21 September to 16 October 2010. She won the Off West-End stage award for People's Choice for Female performance. On the 4 February 2011, she appeared as a one-off character "Hermione" in the CBBC children's Drama Sadie J.

Cave runs the website www.pindippy.com, which features, amongst other creations, short videos written by and starring Cave herself, with occasionally appearances from some of her other Harry Potter co-stars. She has even turned her hand to journalism, with an article describing the 2011 London riots as "a huge party that no one wanted to miss". Cave played the title character in a 2012 production of J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose at the DogOrange Theatre, in London. On 24th May 2012, she appeared in the final episode of season 2 of Grandma's House, playing the character of Zazzy. Cave plays the role of Elder Biddy in the 2012 film adaptation of Great Expectations, based on a novel by Charles Dickens, and directed by Mike Newell. Cave reunited with her Harry Potter co-stars Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, and Ralph Fiennes in the film.