The actress, who played Lavender Brown in the movies, has been on the online content subscription service since March 2025
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- Harry Potter alum Jessie Cave revealed how much money she made after joining OnlyFans in March 2025
- “I’ve earned more, easily, than my entire acting career within one year,” she said
- The actress also explained that her content is “literally about hair: the texture of hair. The fetish. It’s very, very niche”
Jessie Cave says she has made more money on OnlyFans than from her “entire acting career.”
Since joining the online content subscription service as a creator in March 2025, the Harry Potter alum, 39, who portrayed Lavender Brown in the franchise’s final three films, has spent much of her time making “hair content” to financially support herself and her four children.
“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,” Cave told UK-based newspaper The Times in an interview published Aug. 7. “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.”
The actress took to making videos of herself brushing and playing with her long hair while dressed as an elf, a maid or even Lavender Brown.
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“My rule is the hair is the main character. That’s how I justify it,” she said. “It’s literally about hair: the texture of hair. The fetish. It’s very, very niche.”
“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 continued of her decision to join OnlyFans. “But it’s now been over a year and a half and it’s genuinely saved our lives.”
Cave went on to reveal that, after just one day on OnlyFans, she had earned more than £15,000 (around $20,200). While her subscriber base shrank once people realized she would not be sharing explicit content, the actress made it clear that she still has loyal fans who have stuck around.
“I’ve earned more, easily, than my entire acting career within one year,” she said. “I see people on Instagram posting bikini shots or sexy stuff and I think, you could be charging for this! You’re losing money! I see that being the future. Everyone will be paying for everything.”
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“It is about wanting some kind of gaze… I wear baggy T-shirts on stage, I’ve never posted a bikini shot, I wear huge glasses,” she added. “For so long I’ve just been this quirky figure. After having four kids and feeling invisible for so long, that was really appealing to me.”
While Cave isn’t necessarily worried that her latest venture will get in the way of future acting opportunities, as she is done with kids’ TV shows, she revealed last year that she didn’t get booked for a Harry Potter convention due to her presence on the platform.
“They explained it was because it’s a ‘family show and OnlyFans is affiliated with porn,’ ” she claimed on Substack in September. “This was baffling to me as some actors who do conventions (most actors, actually) have done tv and films in which they’ve done sex scenes and nudity. I’m just playing with my hair!”
“I am not upset about the prospect of no more Harry Potter conventions,” she added. “There’s going to be a new cast now and it’s a different time. Plus, I have done conventions for over 15 years and have enough photos and wizard memorabilia.”
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