Helena Bonham Carter
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
Mrs. Bucket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ari
Planet of the Apes
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Serena
Terminator Salvation
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Big Fish
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Karen Knightly
The Revengers' Comedies
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Elizabeth
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Ophelia
Hamlet
Corpse Bride (voice)
Corpse Bride
Eudoria Holmes
Enola Holmes 2
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane
Susan
Novocaine
Lucy Honeychurch
A Room with a View
Esther Rubens
Sixty Six
Amanda
Mighty Aphrodite
Dinah
The Heart of Me
Helen Schlegel
Howards End
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Alice in Wonderland
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Real Nolly
Mother Squirrel (voice)
The Gruffalo
Self
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Ingrid Formanek
Live from Baghdad
Mrs. Lovett
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ruby
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Enid Blyton
Enid
Woman
Conversations with Other Women
Olivia
Twelfth Night
Dr. Julia Hoffman
Dark Shadows
Kate Croy
The Wings of the Dove
Dulcie Piper
The Offing
Serena Staverley
A Hazard of Hearts
Jen (voice)
The House
Self
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Mrs Potter
Toast
Margaret MacNeil
Margaret's Museum
Mother Squirrel (voice)
The Gruffalo's Child
Madame Thénardier
Les Misérables
Rosemary
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Chiara
Francesco
Red Harrington
The Lone Ranger
Jane Hatchard
The Theory of Flight
Caroline Abbott
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Minerva Munday
Getting It Right
Raina Petkoff
Arms and the Man
Miss Havisham
Great Expectations
Self - Narrator (voice)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Cora
Women Talking Dirty
Self
Merchant Ivory
Iris
La maschera
Patient
A Therapy
Dr. Clair
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Narrator
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Milly (voice)
Carnivale
Elizabeth Taylor
Burton and Taylor
Ophelia (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
Edith Ellyn
Suffragette
Self
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Wise Horse (voice)
The Velveteen Rabbit
Queen Elizabeth
The King's Speech
Margot Tyrell
Turks & Caicos
Margot Tyrell
Salting the Battlefield
Marina Oswald
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Self
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Narrator
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Babi Winton
One Life
Marla Singer
Fight Club
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Self
Reimagining The Met Gala
Self
Le train où vont les choses
Narrator (voice)
Night Will Fall
Self
Ocean's Team 3.0
Self
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Ada
Portraits chinois
Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Pandora / Julie
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Maggi Jackson
Magnificent 7
Tara
The Well of Saint Nobody
Margaret Gore
Four Letters of Love
Narrator
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Rose Weil
Ocean's Eight
Ophelia (archive footage)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
Netty (The Past)
A Pattern of Roses
Margaret Conroy (voice)
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Eleanor Riese
55 Steps
Young Lady at Cricket Match
Maurice
Little Twink
The Land of Sometimes
Nanuk
Poles Apart
Jo Marriner
The Vision
Narrator
Wild Africa
Dorothy
Butter
Mum
Football
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Eudoria Holmes
Enola Holmes
Narrator (voice)
Tintoretto - Un ribelle a Venezia
White Bear (voice)
Brown Bear's Wedding
White Bear (voice)
White Bear's Secret
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Siveth (voice)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Self
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Self
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Self
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Self
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Lady Devilla
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Clown
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Not Bloody Likely
Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
reader
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Fairy Godmother
Cinderella
Self - Readings
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Self
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Eudoria Holmes
Enola Holmes 3
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
117
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-05-26
Place of Birth
Golders Green, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Helena Bonham-Carter