Harry Potter actress joins OnlyFans to 'get out of debt'

Harry Potter actress Jessie Cave has revealed she is starting an OnlyFans to help her “get out of debt” and “empower” herself. 

Caven who portrayed the character Lavender Brown in three films across the Harry Potter franchise, specified that the account would be non-sexual in nature and would instead offer subscribers “the best quality hair sounds”, with an aim to appeal to people with a hair fetish. 

Speaking on her podcast, Before We Break Up Again, the 37-year-old actress said: “I’m launching a hair OnlyFans – this is entirely for hair-based content. It’s very much geared towards people who have an interest, or fetish, with hair.” 

“It’s a fetish. Fetish doesn’t necessarily mean sexual.” 

Cave, who has also appeared in films such as Great Expectations and on television series like Black Mirror and The Baby, explained she already does a lot of videos with her hair on her Instagram and noticed there was a lot of interest in the niche area, which has been “liberating” and “empowering”. 

On her self-titled Substack, Brown went into further detail: “One year. I’ll try for one year. My aim? To get the house safe, cover the arsenic/lead wallpaper, build a new roof etc. My aim? To get out of debt. My aim? To empower myself? To prove to those in the past who have misjudged me that I’m not so sweet? To put time into something I never invested in before: self-love.” 

“Were my years of Harry Potter conventions in fact research?” she added. “(It feels) like I’m doing something naughty, something a little fucked up. I like that. Ripping up the good little actress rule book.” 

Cave isn’t the first person in the entertainment industry to have turned to OnlyFans for extra income.  

Singer-songwriter Lily Allen revealed last year that the OnlyFans account she started where she posts pictures of her feet makes her more money than her Spotify music streams. 

“Imagine being an artist and having nearly eight million monthly listeners on Spotify but earning more money from having 1,000 people subscribe to pictures of your feet,” she wrote on X at the time. “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” 

Elsewhere, British singer-songwriter Kate Nash started an OnlyFans account (“Butts 4 Tour Busses”) to help fund her European tour, while The Sopranos star Drea de Matteo said her OnlyFans account “saved her life” when she was close to homelessness. Indeed, she stated that was able to prevent her home from going into foreclosure by starting an OnlyFans account. 

“It saved us,” De Matteo told DailyMail at the time. “OnlyFans saved my life, 100 percent. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but it really did save us. Anybody that wants to condemn me and put me down, go for it. I just hope you never find yourself in the position I was in to take care of two little kids. It saved my home of many years that was very important to us. And beyond all that, it has given me enough money to start up and finance Ultrafree.” 

Other celebrities such as Iggy Azalea and Tyga also all post content on the site for their fee-paying subscribers, upping the popularity of the social media platform as a means to boost one’s income – especially when opportunities dry up.