Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter
Biography
Helena Bonham Carter CBE is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, especially period dramas, she is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and five Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonham Carter rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "English rose", a label she was uncomfortable with. She is best known for her eccentric fashion, dark aesthetic, and for often playing quirky women. For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in The King's Speech (2010), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Hamlet (1990), Howards End (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), the Harry Potter series (2007–2011) as Bellatrix Lestrange, Great Expectations (2012) as Miss Havisham, Les Misérables (2012), Cinderella (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Enola Holmes (2020). Her collaborations with director Tim Burton, her former domestic partner, include Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) as Mrs. Lovett, Alice in Wonderland (2010) as the Red Queen, and Dark Shadows (2012). For her role as children's author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her other television films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in seasons three and four of Netflix's The Crown.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
157
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-05-26 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Golders Green, London, England, UK
Acting

2023

One Life as Babi Winton

2022

Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes

2020

Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes

2019

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)

2018

Ocean's Eight as Rose Weil

2016

The Crown as Princess Margaret

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass as Iracebeth / Red Queen

2015

Cinderella as Fairy Godmother

2012

Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman

2012

Les Misérables as Madame Thénardier

2010

Alice in Wonderland as Iracebeth / Red Queen

2010

The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth

2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Bellatrix Lestrange

2009

Terminator Salvation as Serena

2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Bellatrix Lestrange

2005

Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)

2005

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)

2004

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)

2003

Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch

2002

American Idol as Self

2001

Planet of the Apes as Ari

1999

Fight Club as Marla Singer

1998

Merlin as Morgan le Fay

1997

The View as Self

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest

1992

Absolutely Fabulous as Dream Saffron

1985

Screen Two as Jo Marriner

1984

Miami Vice as Dr. Theresa Lyons

1953

The Oscars as Self

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

NaN

California Avenue as Eddie

2025

Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore

2023

The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)

2022

The House as Jen (voice)

2021

Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)

2021

The Cleaner as Sheila

2021

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)

2018

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Margaret Conroy (voice)

2018

55 Steps as Eleanor Riese

2015

Suffragette as Edith Ellyn

2014

Turks & Caicos as Margot Tyrell

2014

Salting the Battlefield as Margot Tyrell

2013

The Lone Ranger as Red Harrington

2012

Great Expectations as Miss Havisham

2011

The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)

2010

Toast as Mrs Potter

2009

The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)

2009

Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - 'Bellatrix Lestrange'

2003

Henry VIII as Anne Boleyn

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest

2001

The Kumars at No. 42 as Not available

2001

Novocaine as Susan

1998

So Graham Norton as Self - Guest

1997

The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy

1996

Twelfth Night as Olivia

1995

Mighty Aphrodite as Amanda

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth

1994

A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn

1993

GMTV as Self

1993

Rik Mayall Presents as Pandora / Julie

1992

Howards End as Helen Schlegel

1987

Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)

1987

A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley

1986

A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch

1986

Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey

NaN

The Seven Dials Mystery as Lady Caterham

2024

Merchant Ivory as Self

2023

Nolly as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon

2023

The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)

2022

Wild Babies as Narrator

2022

Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

Eden: Untamed Planet as Self - Narrator (voice)

2020

Clown as Narrator (voice)

2020

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings

2019

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)

2018

Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self

2017

Poles Apart as Nanuk

2016

Love, Nina as George

2015

Wild Africa as Narrator

2014

Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice)

2013

Burton and Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor

2012

A Therapy as Patient

2011

Life's Too Short as Helena Bonham Carter

2011

Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)

2009

Enid as Enid Blyton

2005

Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson

2004

The Heart of Me as Dinah

2001

Football as Mum

2000

Carnivale as Milly (voice)

1999

The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard

1998

The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly

1995

Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil

1993

Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie

1992

White Bear's Secret as White Bear (voice)

1991

Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)

1990

Hamlet as Ophelia

NaN

Enola Holmes 3 as Eudoria Holmes

2006

Sixty Six as Esther Rubens

2002

Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek

2001

Women Talking Dirty as Cora

1996

Shadow Play as Ada

1994

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole as Not available

1994

Butter as Dorothy

1991

Where Angels Fear to Tread as Caroline Abbott

1989

Francesco as Chiara

1989

Getting It Right as Minerva Munday

NaN

The Land of Sometimes as Mediocris (voice)

1989

Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff

NaN

The Offing as Dulcie Piper

NaN

Not Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Ophelia (archive footage)

1988

The Mask as Iris

1987

The Vision as Jo Marriner

1983

A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
Crew

2018

55 Steps Executive Producer

NaN

California Avenue Executive Producer