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
- 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2023 · imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
- 2023 · Nolly as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
- 2022 · Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla
- 2019 · My Grandparents' War as Self
- 2019 · Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
- 2019 · Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- 2014 · Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Salting the Battlefield 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 · Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons as Self
- 2012 · A Therapy as Patient
- 2011 · When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)
- 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
- 2005 · Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson
- 2002 · Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby
- 2001 · Women Talking Dirty as Cora
- 2001 · The Kumars at No. 42 as
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard
- 1998 · The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly
- 1997 · Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary
- 1996 · Shadow Play as Ada
- 1995 · Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil
- 1994 · Jo Brand Through the Cakehole as
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie
- 1991 · Where Angels Fear to Tread as Caroline Abbott
- 1989 · Getting It Right as Minerva Munday
- 1989 · Francesco as Chiara
- 1987 · A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley
- Future · The Seven Dials Mystery as Lady Caterham
- 2025 · Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore
- 2023 · Charles III: The Coronation Year as Narrator
- 2023 · One Life as Babi Winton
- 2023 · The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)
- 2023 · The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes
- 2022 · Wild Babies as Narrator
- 2022 · Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
- 2022 · The House as Jen (voice)
- 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
- 2021 · The Cleaner as Sheila
- 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 · Clown as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes
- 2020 · Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)
- 2019 · E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self
- 2019 · The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as All-Maudra (voice)
- 2018 · Reimagining The Met Gala as Self
- 2018 · Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self
- 2018 · Ocean's Eight as Rose Weil
- 2018 · Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Margaret Conroy (voice)
- 2018 · 55 Steps as Eleanor Riese
- 2017 · Poles Apart as Nanuk
- 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
- 2015 · Wild Africa as Narrator
- 2014 · Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self
- 2014 · Turks & Caicos 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
- 2012 · The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres as Narrator
- 2012 · The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat as Narrator
- 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 · Toast as Mrs Potter
- 2010 · The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Bellatrix Lestrange
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as The Red Queen
- 2009 · The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- 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
- 2006 · Conversations with Other Women as Woman
- 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)
- 2004 · The Heart of Me as Dinah
- 2003 · Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
- 2003 · Henry VIII as Anne Boleyn
- 2002 · Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
- 2002 · American Idol as Self
- 2001 · Novocaine as Susan
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Planet of the Apes as Ari
- 2001 · Football as Mum
- 2000 · Carnivale as Milly (voice)
- 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 · A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn
- 1994 · A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn
- 1994 · Butter as Dorothy
- 1993 · Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald
- 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 · White Bear's Secret as White Bear (voice)
- 1992 · Howards End as Helen Schlegel
- 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Ophelia (archive footage)
- 1989 · Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff
- Future · The Land of Sometimes as Little Twink
- 1991 · Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)
- 1990 · Hamlet as Ophelia
- 1990 · Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter as Beatrix Potter
- 1988 · The Mask as Iris
- Future · The Well of Saint Nobody as Tara
- 1987 · The Vision as Jo Marriner
- 1987 · Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match
- 1986 · Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey
- 1985 · A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch
- 1985 · Screen Two as Jo Marriner
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- 1983 · A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
- Future · The Offing as Dulcie Piper
- Future · James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self
- Future · Not Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell