[3][4] Upon graduating from drama school in 2016, Cara made her professional stage debut as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
[9] In 2020, Cara landed her first major television roles when she began playing Jen in the Apple TV+ comedy Trying and also appeared in the BBC One miniseries Life as Kat.
The following year, Cara joined the cast of the Channel 4 school comedy-drama Ackley Bridge for its fourth series as Kayla Afzal.
[14] Cara gained further prominence through her role as Emmy Sizergh in the 2024 Netflix series Bodkin.
She has an upcoming role in the USA Network series The Rainmaker, an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same title.