Actress Jessie Cave, who played Lavender Brown in three Harry Potter films, says the money she made after joining OnlyFans “saved” her life.
“I’ve earned more, easily, than my entire acting career within one year,” Cave, 39, told the Times.
Cave said that after 18 years in show business and with four children to care for, she was running out of money. This, despite starring in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films, and roles on TV shows like Black Mirror and Industry.
“I couldn’t go and, say, work in a supermarket because I can’t afford the childcare, and also I don’t want people shouting Harry Potter spells at me as I work at Tesco,” she said. “I could retrain but I can’t afford to do a degree. I had a breakdown and I thought, that’s it with acting, I give up. But also we have no money. It was a point of complete desperation.”
So she joined OnlyFans. However, she only posts fully-clothed “hair content.”
“My rule is the hair is the main character,” she said, adding, “That’s how I justify it. It’s literally about hair: the texture of hair. The fetish. It’s very, very niche.”
Jessie Cave says that in one day she made around $20,000
“I thought I’d make five grand, be on it for a few months and it would buy me time to work out what we’re going to do,” she said. “But it’s now been over a year and a half and it’s genuinely saved our lives.”
She doesn’t know how long that will last, though.
“I’m not going naked. I don’t even talk on it,” she said. “But I don’t know how long I can last if I don’t start giving more. The bottom line is I can’t afford to stop and I do enjoy a lot of it. There’s a lot that I don’t enjoy too.”