Cara Louise Theobold (born 8 January 1990) is an English actress who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her first acting role was Ivy Stuart in the third and fourth series of television period drama Downton Abbey and is also known for voice acting as Tracer in the video game Overwatch.
Theobold was educated at Outwood Grange Academy before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She initially auditioned for the Downton Abbey role of Ivy over Christmas 2011, during her final year. She was allowed to finish her final year of drama school early to begin filming the series at Easter. Theobold characterised Ivy as "ambitious" and "a dreamer". She returned for the fourth series of the show in 2013. Her work on the series resulted in her being a co-recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
In 2014, Theobold made a guest appearance on the TV sitcom Lovesick (formerly known as Scrotal Recall). In 2015, she appeared in two episodes of Last Tango in Halifax as Holly, and an episode of Call the Midwife. She starred as Sarah, a housekeeper at a stately home and one of the main characters, in the third series of The Syndicate, which aired in spring 2015. She is also the voice actress for Tracer in the video games Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm, and starred in the E4/Netflix original series Crazyhead alongside Susan Wokoma. In 2016, it was announced that Theobold would star in Absentia along with Stana Katic and Patrick Heusinger. In 2019, she appeared in ITV2 series Zomboat! as “fiery, feisty and very much the centre of her own universe” Jo, one of the show's main characters. In 2018, she played the part of Victoria Brown in the Polish film, 303 Squadron.

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