Cara Theobold
Cara Louise Theobold (born 8 January 1990) is an English actress. She made her debut as Ivy Stuart in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey (2012–2013). She has since starred in the BBC series The Syndicate and Together (both 2015), the E4 comedy Crazyhead (2016), and the Amazon Prime thriller Absentia (2017–2020). She also voiced Tracer in the video game Overwatch. Early life Theobold was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. She attended Outwood Grange Academy before going on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career During the 2011 Christmas holidays of her final year at the Guildhall, Theobold auditioned for the Downton Abbey role of Ivy Stuart. She was allowed to finish her final year of drama school early to begin filming the series at Easter. Theobold characterised Ivy as "ambitious" and "a dreamer". She returned for the fourth series of the show in 2013. Her work on the series resulted in her being a co-recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2014, Theobold made a guest appearance on the TV sitcom Lovesick (formerly known as Scrotal Recall). In 2015, she appeared in two episodes