“Harry Potter” actress Jessie Cave says the OnlyFans account she launched to climb out of debt has become a financial lifeline, even as she admits the decision embarrassed her at first.
Cave, who played Lavender Brown across three films in the franchise, discussed the account during a recent appearance on the U.K. talk show “This Morning.” “It was embarrassing because on a certain level, I would have really liked to get a job,” she said, adding that childcare costs had become overwhelming. “OnlyFans really has saved me.” Cave reflected on her Lavender Brown role as a small part from two decades ago, distancing her current financial reality from the nostalgia still attached to her “Potter” fame.
Cave started the account in May 2025 with a narrow focus: hair-related content aimed at users with hair fetishes rather than explicit material. She has said she avoids posting sexual content and instead offers subscribers what she has described as sensual audio and video built around her hair. The venture began, by her own account, as an attempt to stabilize her family’s finances and repair a home riddled with structural problems, including old wiring and hazardous wallpaper.
The account has come at a cost beyond the discomfort Cave described. A “Harry Potter” fan convention declined to book her once organizers learned of her OnlyFans presence, citing the event’s family-oriented branding and OnlyFans’ broader association with adult content. Cave called that reasoning baffling, noting that many actors who regularly appear at such conventions have performed nude or sexual scenes in mainstream film and television roles without facing similar exclusion.
Despite losing convention opportunities, Cave said she isn’t mourning her place in the “Potter” universe. A new generation of actors is already stepping into the franchise for an upcoming television series, and Cave said she has accumulated enough memorabilia and convention experience over 15 years to feel at peace stepping back. She said she has no regrets about the choice, even as she continues to navigate the stigma attached to the platform that, by her telling, kept her family afloat.
