
Helena Bonham Carter
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
Credits
- 2023 · One Life as Babi Winton
- 2023 · The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)
- 2023 · Nolly as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
- 2022 · Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes
- 2022 · Wild Babies as Narrator
- 2022 · The House as Jen (voice)
- 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
- 2021 · The Cleaner as Sheila
- 2020 · Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes
- 2020 · Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)
- 2019 · My Grandparents' War as Self
- 2019 · The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as All-Maudra Mayrin
- 2018 · Ocean's Eight as Rose Weil
- 2018 · Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Margaret Conroy (voice)
- 2017 · Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- 2016 · The Crown as Princess Margaret
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Red Queen
- 2016 · Love, Nina as George
- 2015 · Suffragette as Edith Ellyn
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
- 2014 · Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Salting the Battlefield as Margot Tyrell
- 2013 · The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Dr. Clair
- 2013 · The Lone Ranger as Red Harrington
- 2012 · Les Misérables as Madame Thénardier
- 2012 · Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
- 2012 · Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman
- 2011 · The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- 2011 · Life's Too Short as Helena Bonham Carter
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Bellatrix Lestrange
- 2010 · The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Bellatrix Lestrange
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as The Red Queen
- 2009 · The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- 2009 · Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - 'Bellatrix Lestrange'
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Bellatrix Lestrange
- 2009 · Terminator Salvation as Serena
- 2007 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett
- 2007 · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Bellatrix Lestrange
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2005 · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
- 2005 · Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)
- 2005 · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Mrs. Bucket
- 2004 · Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
- 2003 · Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
- 2003 · Henry VIII as Anne Boleyn
- 2002 · American Idol as Self
- 2001 · Novocaine as Susan
- 2001 · The Kumars at No. 42 as
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Planet of the Apes as Ari
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · Fight Club as Marla Singer
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self - Guest
- 1998 · Merlin as Morgan le Fay
- 1997 · The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Vera Brittain (voice)
- 1996 · Twelfth Night as Olivia
- 1995 · Mighty Aphrodite as Amanda
- 1994 · Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth
- 1994 · Jo Brand Through the Cakehole as
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents as Pandora / Julie
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · Absolutely Fabulous as Dream Saffron
- 1992 · Howards End as Helen Schlegel
- 1987 · Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match
- 1986 · A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch
- 1985 · Screen Two as Jo Marriner
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
- Future · Enola Holmes 3 as Eudoria Holmes
- 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2022 · Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
- 2021 · Eden: Untamed Planet as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
- 2020 · Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla
- 2020 · The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings
- 2018 · Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self
- 2018 · Reimagining The Met Gala as Self
- 2018 · 55 Steps as Eleanor Riese
- 2014 · Turks & Caicos as Margot Tyrell
- 2013 · Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self
- 2011 · When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
- 2010 · Toast as Mrs Potter
- 2009 · Enid as Enid Blyton
- 2008 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd as Self
- 2006 · Sixty Six as Esther Rubens
- 2006 · Conversations with Other Women as Woman
- 2002 · Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
- 2002 · Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby
- 2001 · Women Talking Dirty as Cora
- 1999 · The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard
- 1998 · The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly
- 1997 · Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary
- 1995 · Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil
- 1994 · A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn
- 1994 · Butter as Dorothy
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie
- 1991 · Where Angels Fear to Tread as Caroline Abbott
- 1990 · Hamlet as Ophelia
- 1989 · Francesco as Chiara
- 1987 · A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley
- 1987 · The Vision as Jo Marriner
- 1986 · Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey
- Future · The Seven Dials Mystery as Lady Caterham
- Future · James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self
- Future · The Land of Sometimes as Little Twink
- 2025 · Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore
- 2023 · Charles III: The Coronation Year as Narrator
- 2023 · imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
- 2023 · The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Clown as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
- 2019 · E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self
- 2019 · Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Poles Apart as Nanuk
- 2015 · Wild Africa as Narrator
- 2014 · Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self
- 2013 · Burton and Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor
- 2012 · Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons as Self
- 2012 · A Therapy as Patient
- 2012 · The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres as Narrator
- 2012 · The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat as Narrator
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self
- 2005 · Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson
- 2004 · The Heart of Me as Dinah
- 2001 · Football as Mum
- 2000 · Carnivale as Milly (voice)
- 1996 · Shadow Play as Ada
- 1994 · A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn
- 1993 · Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald
- 1992 · White Bear's Secret as White Bear (voice)
- 1991 · Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)
- 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Ophelia (archive footage)
- 1990 · Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter as Beatrix Potter
- 1989 · Getting It Right as Minerva Munday
- 1989 · Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff
- 1983 · A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
- Future · Not Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
- Future · The Offing as Dulcie Piper
- Future · The Well of Saint Nobody as Tara
- 1988 · The Mask as Iris