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