Helena Bonham Carter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 26, 1966 (age 60)
- Birthplace
- Golders Green, London, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
The Offing
Movie · as Dulcie Piper
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Movie · as Self
The Well of Saint Nobody
Movie · as Tara
The Housekeeper
Movie · as Adelaide
California Avenue
TV · as Eddie
Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
Movie · as (voice)
The Land of Sometimes
Movie · as Mediocris (voice)
Enola Holmes 3
Movie · as Eudoria Holmes
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Movie · as Self
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
Movie · as Readings
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
TV · as Lady Caterham · 3 eps
Four Letters of Love
Movie · as Margaret Gore
Merchant Ivory
Movie · as Self
Bluey Book Reads
TV · as Reader · 1 ep
The Real Nolly
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie · as Wise Horse (voice)
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Movie · as Self
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
One Life
Movie · as Babi Winton
Nolly
TV · as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon · 3 eps
Enola Holmes 2
Movie · as Eudoria Holmes
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Movie · as Self
The House
Movie · as Jen (voice)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Movie · as Self
Wild Babies
TV · as Narrator · 8 eps
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Movie · as Siveth (voice)
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Movie · as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eden: Untamed Planet
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
The Cleaner
TV · as Sheila · 1 ep
Enola Holmes
Movie · as Eudoria Holmes
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Movie · as Lady Devilla
Clown
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Movie · as reader
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Movie · as Self - Readings
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Movie · as Self
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Movie · as Self
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
My Grandparents' War
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TV · as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice) · 4 eps
Reimagining The Met Gala
Movie · as Self
Ocean's Team 3.0
Movie · as Self
Ocean's Eight
Movie · as Rose Weil
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Movie · as Margaret Conroy (voice)
55 Steps
Movie · as Eleanor Riese
Poles Apart
Movie · as Nanuk (voice)
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie · as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
Movie · as Narrator (Wild Africa)
Love, Nina
TV · as George · 5 eps
The Crown
TV · as Princess Margaret · 20 eps
Suffragette
Movie · as Edith Ellyn
Wild Africa
Movie · as Narrator
Cinderella
Movie · as Fairy Godmother
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Turks & Caicos
Movie · as Margot Tyrell
Salting the Battlefield
Movie · as Margot Tyrell
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Movie · as Self
Night Will Fall
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Movie · as Self
The Lone Ranger
Movie · as Red Harrington
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Movie · as Dr. Clair
Burton and Taylor
Movie · as Elizabeth Taylor
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Movie · as Self
Pantoffelkino
TV · as Self - Interviewee · 1 ep
Dark Shadows
Movie · as Dr. Julia Hoffman
Les Misérables
Movie · as Madame Thénardier
Great Expectations
Movie · as Miss Havisham
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Movie · as Narrator
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Movie · as Narrator
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Movie · as Self
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie · as Bellatrix Lestrange
The Gruffalo's Child
Movie · as Mother Squirrel (voice)
Discovering Hamlet
Movie · as Ophelia (archive footage)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Movie · as Self
Life's Too Short
TV · as Helena Bonham Carter · 1 ep
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie · as Bellatrix Lestrange
Toast
Movie · as Mrs Potter
The King's Speech
Movie · as Queen Elizabeth
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Movie · as Self
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Movie · as Self
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Movie · as Self
Terminator Salvation
Movie · as Serena
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Movie · as Bellatrix Lestrange
The Gruffalo
Movie · as Mother Squirrel (voice)
Enid
Movie · as Enid Blyton
Live from Studio Five
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Movie · as Self
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie · as Bellatrix Lestrange
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie · as Mrs. Lovett
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Sixty Six
Movie · as Esther Rubens
Conversations with Other Women
Movie · as Woman
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Movie · as Mrs. Bucket
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Movie · as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Corpse Bride
Movie · as Corpse Bride (voice)
Magnificent 7
Movie · as Maggi Jackson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors
Movie · as Self
The Heart of Me
Movie · as Dinah
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Movie · as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
Big Fish
Movie · as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Henry VIII
TV · as Anne Boleyn · 2 eps
Live from Baghdad
Movie · as Ingrid Formanek
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Movie · as Ruby
American Idol
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Planet of the Apes
Movie · as Ari
Novocaine
Movie · as Susan
Women Talking Dirty
Movie · as Cora
Football
Movie · as Mum
The Kumars at No. 42
TV · 1 ep
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Carnivale
Movie · as Milly (voice)
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
Movie · as Self
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV · 2 eps
The Theory of Flight
Movie · as Jane Hatchard
Fight Club
Movie · as Marla Singer
The Revengers' Comedies
Movie · as Karen Knightly
So Graham Norton
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Merlin
TV · as Morgan le Fay · 2 eps
The Entertainment Biz
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Wings of the Dove
Movie · as Kate Croy
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Movie · as Rosemary
The View
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Twelfth Night
Movie · as Olivia
Shadow Play
Movie · as Ada
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
TV · as Vera Brittain (voice) · 1 ep
Mighty Aphrodite
Movie · as Amanda
Margaret's Museum
Movie · as Margaret MacNeil
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
Movie
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie · as Elizabeth
Butter
Movie · as Dorothy
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
TV · 1 ep
A Dark Adapted Eye
TV · as Faith Severn · 2 eps
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Movie · as Marina Oswald
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Movie · as Pandora / Julie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
GMTV
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Rik Mayall Presents
TV · as Pandora / Julie · 1 ep
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Howards End
Movie · as Helen Schlegel
White Bear's Secret
Movie · as White Bear (voice)
Absolutely Fabulous
TV · as Dream Saffron · 1 ep
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Movie · as Caroline Abbott
Brown Bear's Wedding
Movie · as White Bear (voice)
Hamlet
Movie · as Ophelia
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Movie · as Beatrix Potter
Francesco
Movie · as Chiara
Getting It Right
Movie · as Minerva Munday
Arms and the Man
Movie · as Raina Petkoff
The Mask
Movie · as Iris
Comic Relief
TV · 1 ep
A Hazard of Hearts
Movie · as Serena Staverley
Maurice
Movie · as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
The Vision
Movie · as Jo Marriner
Lady Jane
Movie · as Lady Jane Grey
A Room with a View
Movie · as Lucy Honeychurch
Screen Two
TV · as Jo Marriner · 1 ep
Theatre Night
TV · as Raina Petkoff · 1 ep
Miami Vice
TV · as Dr. Theresa Lyons · 2 eps
A Pattern of Roses
Movie · as Netty (The Past)
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Audience Member (uncredited) · 1 ep