Helena Bonham Carter
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-05-26 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Golders Green, London, England, UK
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
Acting
Enola Holmes 3
as Eudoria Holmes
The Land of Sometimes
as Little Twink (voice)
The Offing
as Dulcie Piper
The Well of Saint Nobody
as Tara
Not Bloody Likely
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
(2025)
Four Letters of Love
as Margaret Gore
(2024)
Merchant Ivory
as Self
(2023)
One Life
as Babi Winton
(2023)
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Wise Horse (voice)
(2023)
Charles III: The Coronation Year
as Narrator
(2023)
The Real Nolly
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2023)
(2022)
(2022)
Enola Holmes 2
as Eudoria Holmes
(2022)
The House
as Jen (voice)
(2022)
(2022)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2021)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
Enola Holmes
as Eudoria Holmes
(2020)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
as Siveth (voice)
(2020)
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
as Self - Readings
(2020)
Clown
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
(2020)
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
as Lady Devilla
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Ocean's Eight
as Rose Weil
(2018)
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
(2018)
55 Steps
as Eleanor Riese
(2018)
Reimagining The Met Gala
as Self
(2018)
Ocean's Team 3.0
as Self
(2017)
Poles Apart
as Nanuk
(2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
(2015)
Cinderella
as Fairy Godmother
(2015)
Suffragette
as Edith Ellyn
(2015)
Wild Africa
as Narrator
(2014)
Night Will Fall
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
Turks & Caicos
as Margot Tyrell
(2014)
Salting the Battlefield
as Margot Tyrell
(2014)
Riding a Train of Thoughts
as Self
(2013)
The Lone Ranger
as Red Harrington
(2013)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Dr. Clair
(2013)
Burton and Taylor
as Elizabeth Taylor
(2013)
(2012)
Les Misérables
as Madame Thénardier
(2012)
Dark Shadows
as Dr. Julia Hoffman
(2012)
Great Expectations
as Miss Havisham
(2012)
A Therapy
as Patient
(2012)
(2012)
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
as Narrator
(2012)
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
as Narrator
(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Bellatrix Lestrange
(2011)
The Gruffalo's Child
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
(2011)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
(2011)
Discovering Hamlet
as Ophelia (archive footage)
(2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Bellatrix Lestrange
(2010)
Alice in Wonderland
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
(2010)
The King's Speech
as Queen Elizabeth
(2010)
Toast
as Mrs Potter
(2010)
(2010)
(2010)
(2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Bellatrix Lestrange
(2009)
Terminator Salvation
as Serena
(2009)
The Gruffalo
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
(2009)
Enid
as Enid Blyton
(2008)
(2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Bellatrix Lestrange
(2007)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Mrs. Lovett
(2006)
Conversations with Other Women
as Woman
(2006)
Sixty Six
as Esther Rubens
(2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Mrs. Bucket
(2005)
Corpse Bride
as Corpse Bride (voice)
(2005)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
(2005)
Magnificent 7
as Maggi Jackson
(2004)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
(2004)
The Heart of Me
as Dinah
(2003)
Big Fish
as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
(2002)
Live from Baghdad
as Ingrid Formanek
(2002)
Till Human Voices Wake Us
as Ruby
(2001)
Planet of the Apes
as Ari
(2001)
Novocaine
as Susan
(2001)
Women Talking Dirty
as Cora
(2001)
Football
as Mum
(2000)
Carnivale
as Milly (voice)
(1999)
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
(1999)
The Theory of Flight
as Jane Hatchard
(1998)
The Revengers' Comedies
as Karen Knightly
(1997)
The Wings of the Dove
as Kate Croy
(1997)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Rosemary
(1996)
Twelfth Night
as Olivia
(1996)
Shadow Play
as Ada
(1995)
Mighty Aphrodite
as Amanda
(1995)
Margaret's Museum
as Margaret MacNeil
(1994)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Elizabeth
(1994)
Butter
as Dorothy
(1993)
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
as Pandora / Julie
(1993)
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
as Marina Oswald
(1992)
Howards End
as Helen Schlegel
(1992)
White Bear's Secret
as White Bear (voice)
(1991)
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Caroline Abbott
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Ophelia (archive footage)
(1991)
Brown Bear's Wedding
as White Bear (voice)
(1990)
Hamlet
as Ophelia
(1990)
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
as Beatrix Potter
(1989)
Francesco
as Chiara
(1989)
Arms and the Man
as Raina Petkoff
(1989)
Getting It Right
as Minerva Munday
(1988)
The Mask
as Iris
(1987)
Maurice
as Young Lady at Cricket Match
(1987)
A Hazard of Hearts
as Serena Staverley
(1987)
The Vision
as Jo Marriner
(1986)
A Room with a View
as Lucy Honeychurch
(1986)
Lady Jane
as Lady Jane Grey
(1983)
A Pattern of Roses
as Netty (The Past)
Crew
(2018)
55 Steps
Executive Producer