Helena Bonham Carter
Born: 1966-05-26 in Golders Green, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials as Lady Caterham
- The Land of Sometimes as Mediocris (voice)
- Enola Holmes 3 as Eudoria Holmes
- Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World as Self
2025
- Tim Burton: Life in the Line as Self
- Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore
2024
- Bluey Book Reads as Reader
- Merchant Ivory as Self
- Tim Burton: Life in the Line as Self
2023
- One Life as Babi Winton
- Nolly as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
- The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)
- Charles III: The Coronation Year as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
2022
- Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
- The House as Jen (voice)
- Wild Babies as Narrator
- Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
- Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
- The Cleaner as Sheila
- Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)
- Eden: Untamed Planet as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
- Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes
- Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla
- The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings
- Clown as Narrator (voice)
- The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
2019
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
- My Grandparents' War as Self
- Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
- E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self
- Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)
2018
- Ocean's Eight as Rose Weil
- Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Margaret Conroy (voice)
- 55 Steps as Eleanor Riese
- Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self
- Reimagining The Met Gala as Self
2017
- Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- Poles Apart as Nanuk
2016
- The Crown as Princess Margaret
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as Iracebeth / Red Queen
- Love, Nina as George
- Wild Africa / Tiny Giants as Narrator (Wild Africa)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
- Suffragette as Edith Ellyn
- Wild Africa as Narrator
2014
- Turks & Caicos as Margot Tyrell
- Salting the Battlefield as Margot Tyrell
- Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice)
- Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley as Self
- Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self
2013
- The Lone Ranger as Red Harrington
- The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Dr. Clair
- Pantoffelkino as Self - Interviewee
- Burton and Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor
- Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self
2012
- Les Misérables as Madame Thénardier
- Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman
- Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
- Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons as Self
- The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat as Narrator
- The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres as Narrator
2011
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Bellatrix Lestrange
- Life's Too Short as Helena Bonham Carter
- When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
- The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)
2010
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Bellatrix Lestrange
- Alice in Wonderland as Iracebeth / Red Queen
- The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth
- Toast as Mrs Potter
- Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self
- Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self
- Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland as Self
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Bellatrix Lestrange
- Terminator Salvation as Serena
- The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- Live from Studio Five as Self
- Enid as Enid Blyton
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Bellatrix Lestrange
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett
2006
- Conversations with Other Women as Woman
- Sixty Six as Esther Rubens
2005
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Mrs. Bucket
- Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
- Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson
2004
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
- The Heart of Me as Dinah
2003
- Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
- Henry VIII as Anne Boleyn
- Celebrity Naked Ambition as Self (archive footage)
2002
- American Idol as Self
- Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
- Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby
2001
- Planet of the Apes as Ari
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- Novocaine as Susan
- The Kumars at No. 42
- Women Talking Dirty as Cora
- Football as Mum
2000
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
- Carnivale as Milly (voice)
- Fight Club: Behind the Scenes as Self
1999
- Fight Club as Marla Singer
- The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard
1998
- Merlin as Morgan le Fay
- So Graham Norton as Self - Guest
- The Entertainment Biz as Self
- The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly
1997
- The View as Self
- The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary
1996
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Vera Brittain (voice)
- Twelfth Night as Olivia
- Shadow Play as Ada
1995
- Mighty Aphrodite as Amanda
- Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil
1994
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth
- Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
- A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn
- Butter as Dorothy
1993
- Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- GMTV as Self
- Rik Mayall Presents as Pandora / Julie
- Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald
- Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie
1992
- Absolutely Fabulous as Dream Saffron
- Howards End as Helen Schlegel
- White Bear's Secret as White Bear (voice)
1991
- Where Angels Fear to Tread as Caroline Abbott
- Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)
1990
- Hamlet as Ophelia
- Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter as Beatrix Potter
1989
- Francesco as Chiara
- Getting It Right as Minerva Munday
- Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff
1988
- The Mask as Iris
1987
- Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
- A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley
- The Vision as Jo Marriner
1986
- A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch
- Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey
1985
- Screen Two as Jo Marriner
1984
- Miami Vice as Dr. Theresa Lyons
1983
- A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)