Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
Born: May 26, 1966 (age 60) · Golders Green, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born May 26, 1966) 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
Fight Club
1999
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Corpse Bride
2005
The King's Speech
2010
Ocean's Eight
2018
Big Fish
2003
Dark Shadows
2012
Photos (21)
Movies (90)
Fight Club
Marla Singer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Bellatrix Lestrange
Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mrs. Bucket
Alice in Wonderland
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Enola Holmes 3
Eudoria Holmes
Cinderella
Fairy Godmother
Ocean's Eight
Rose Weil
Terminator Salvation
Serena
The King's Speech
Queen Elizabeth
Enola Holmes
Eudoria Holmes
Les Misérables
Madame Thénardier
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Big Fish
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Planet of the Apes
Ari
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
The Velveteen Rabbit
Wise Horse (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mrs. Lovett
Enola Holmes 2
Eudoria Holmes
The Lone Ranger
Red Harrington
One Life
Babi Winton
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Elizabeth
A Room with a View
Lucy Honeychurch
The Gruffalo
Mother Squirrel (voice)
Howards End
Helen Schlegel
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Siveth (voice)
Suffragette
Edith Ellyn
Maurice
Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
The House
Jen (voice)
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
Lady Jane
Lady Jane Grey
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Dr. Clair
Hamlet
Ophelia
Mighty Aphrodite
Amanda
Turks & Caicos
Margot Tyrell
Salting the Battlefield
Margot Tyrell
The Land of Sometimes
Mediocris (voice)
Four Letters of Love
Margaret Gore
The Vision
Jo Marriner
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Margaret Conroy (voice)
The Gruffalo's Child
Mother Squirrel (voice)
55 Steps
Eleanor Riese
Twelfth Night
Olivia
Discovering Hamlet
Ophelia (archive footage)
The Wings of the Dove
Kate Croy
Novocaine
Susan
Toast
Mrs Potter
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Lady Devilla
Conversations with Other Women
Woman
Live from Baghdad
Ingrid Formanek
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Caroline Abbott
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina Oswald
The Revengers' Comedies
Karen Knightly
Sixty Six
Esther Rubens
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Rosemary
Shadow Play
Ada
Clown
Narrator (voice)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Narrator (voice)
Burton and Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Enid
Enid Blyton
Football
Mum
Francesco
Chiara
A Hazard of Hearts
Serena Staverley
Women Talking Dirty
Cora
The Mask
Iris
Getting It Right
Minerva Munday
Margaret's Museum
Margaret MacNeil
Butter
Dorothy
The Theory of Flight
Jane Hatchard
Wild Africa
Narrator
The Heart of Me
Dinah
Night Will Fall
Narrator (voice)
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Pandora / Julie
Arms and the Man
Raina Petkoff
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995
Magnificent 7
Maggi Jackson
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Carnivale
Milly (voice)
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Ruby
A Pattern of Roses
Netty (The Past)
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Poles Apart
Nanuk
Brown Bear's Wedding
White Bear (voice)
White Bear's Secret
White Bear (voice)
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
Narrator (Wild Africa)
TV Shows (20)
Miami Vice
Dr. Theresa Lyons · 2 eps
The Crown
Princess Margaret · 20 eps
Screen Two
Jo Marriner · 1 eps
Absolutely Fabulous
Dream Saffron · 1 eps
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
All-Maudra Mayrin (voice) · 4 eps
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Lady Caterham · 3 eps
Merlin
Morgan le Fay · 2 eps
The Cleaner
Sheila · 1 eps
Love, Nina
George · 5 eps
Rik Mayall Presents
Pandora / Julie · 1 eps
The Kumars at No. 42
1 eps
Life's Too Short
Helena Bonham Carter · 1 eps
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn · 2 eps
Bluey Book Reads
Reader · 1 eps
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Vera Brittain (voice) · 1 eps
Nolly
Noele 'Nolly' Gordon · 3 eps
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2 eps
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1 eps
Wild Babies
Narrator · 8 eps
A Dark Adapted Eye
Faith Severn · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (38)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 4 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member (uncredited) · 1 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
American Idol
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
GMTV
Self · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self · 4 eps
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
My Grandparents' War
Self · 1 eps
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self · 1 eps
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Self
Eden: Untamed Planet
Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Merchant Ivory
Self
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Self
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
Ocean's Team 3.0
Self
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Self
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Self
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Self
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Self - Narrator (voice)
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
Self
Live from Studio Five
Self · 1 eps
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Self
The Real Nolly
Self - Narrator (voice)
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Self - Narrator (voice)
