Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
🎂 1966-05-26
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.
Cast credits(156)
Self - Guest
2009
Self
2007
Self
1997
Self - Guest
1993
Self
2002
Self - Guest
2001
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1944
Princess Margaret
2016
Dr. Theresa Lyons
1984
Self
2015
Jo Marriner
1985
Dream Saffron
1992
All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
2019
Self - Guest
1998
Self
1993
Self
1953
Anne Boleyn
2003
Marla Singer
1999
Bellatrix Lestrange
2007
Morgan le Fay
1998
Bellatrix Lestrange
2010
Bellatrix Lestrange
2009
Bellatrix Lestrange
2011
George
2016
Vera Brittain (voice)
1996
Sheila
2021
1994
Fairy Godmother
2015
Mrs. Bucket
2005
Corpse Bride (voice)
2005
Iracebeth / Red Queen
2010
2001
Self
2017
Self
2009
Self
2022
Rose Weil
2018
Serena
2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Madame Thénardier
2012
Iracebeth / Red Queen
2016
Eudoria Holmes
2020
Pandora / Julie
1993
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
2003
Ari
2001
Narrator
2022
Dr. Julia Hoffman
2012
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
2005
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
2004
Queen Elizabeth
2010
Mrs. Lovett
2007
Eudoria Holmes
2022
Babi Winton
2023
Red Harrington
2013
Self - 'Bellatrix Lestrange'
2009
Jen (voice)
2022
Siveth (voice)
2021
Amanda
1995
Wise Horse (voice)
2023
Helena Bonham Carter
2011
Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
2023
Elizabeth
1994
Lucy Honeychurch
1986
Margaret Conroy (voice)
2018
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2009
Dr. Clair
2013
Edith Ellyn
2015
Self
2019
Young Lady at Cricket Match
1987
Helen Schlegel
1992
Miss Havisham
2012
Susan
2001
Olivia
1996
Lady Jane Grey
1986
2000
Ophelia
1990
Margot Tyrell
2014
Kate Croy
1997
Faith Severn
1994
Self (archive footage)
2021
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2011
Eleanor Riese
2018
Lady Caterham
Mrs Potter
2010
Ingrid Formanek
2002
Eudoria Holmes
Jane Hatchard
1999
Margaret Gore
2025
Narrator (voice)
2014
Lady Devilla
2020
Enid Blyton
2009
Woman
2006
Serena Staverley
1987
Margot Tyrell
2014
Elizabeth Taylor
2013
Self
2011
Esther Rubens
2006
Eddie
Chiara
1989
Self
2018
Little Twink (voice)
Ophelia (archive footage)
2011
Self
2024
fée Morgane
1998
Raina Petkoff
1989
Cora
2001
Narrator (voice)
2019
Caroline Abbott
1991
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Self
1998
Self
2013
Self
2014
Self
2008
Karen Knightly
1998
Dinah
2004
Ada
1996
White Bear (voice)
1992
Dorothy
1994
Netty (The Past)
1983
Minerva Munday
1989
Pandora / Julie
1993
Self
2010
Rosemary
1997
Self
2010
Self
2018
Tara
Iris
1988
Self
2012
Self
2019
Ruby
2002
Narrator
2015
Self
2022
Self
2019
Narrator (voice)
2020
Ophelia (archive footage)
1991
Milly (voice)
2000
Self - Readings
2020
Marina Oswald
1993
Patient
2012
Nanuk
2017
Narrator
2023
Margaret MacNeil
1995
Narrator
2012
Self
2023
Maggi Jackson
2005
Self
reader
2020
Jo Marriner
1987
Self
2014
Mum
2001
Self
2010
Dulcie Piper
Beatrix Potter
1990
White Bear (voice)
1991
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Narrator
2012
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023