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 · 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 · Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla
- 2020 · Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes
- 2020 · Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)
- 2019 · My Grandparents' War as Self
- 2019 · Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
- 2019 · E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self
- 2019 · The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as All-Maudra (voice)
- 2019 · Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Reimagining The Met Gala 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 · 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
- 2014 · Turks & Caicos as Margot Tyrell
- 2013 · The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Dr. Clair
- 2013 · Burton and Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor
- 2013 · The Lone Ranger as Red Harrington
- 2013 · Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self
- 2012 · Les Misérables as Madame Thénardier
- 2012 · Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
- 2012 · Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons as Self
- 2012 · Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman
- 2011 · The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- 2011 · When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
- 2011 · Life's Too Short as Helena Bonham Carter
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)
- 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 as The Red Queen
- 2009 · The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)
- 2009 · Enid as Enid Blyton
- 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 · Sixty Six as Esther Rubens
- 2006 · Conversations with Other Women as Woman
- 2005 · Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)
- 2005 · Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (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 Ana Bolena, reina de Inglaterra (2a esposa Enrique VIII)
- 2002 · Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
- 2002 · Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby
- 2002 · American Idol as Self
- 2001 · Women Talking Dirty as Cora
- 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
- 1999 · The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard
- 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
- 1995 · Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil
- 1994 · Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth
- 1994 · Jo Brand Through the Cakehole as
- 1994 · A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn
- 1994 · Butter as Dorothy
- 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 · Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)
- 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 · Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match
- 1986 · A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch
- 1986 · Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- Future · The Seven Dials Mystery as Lady Caterham
- 1983 · A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
- Future · James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self
- 2023 · Charles III: The Coronation Year as Narrator
- 2023 · imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
- 2023 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2023 · The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
- 2020 · Clown as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self
- 2017 · Poles Apart as Nanuk
- 2015 · Wild Africa as Narrator
- 2014 · Riding a Train of Thoughts 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
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self
- 2008 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd as Self
- 2005 · Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson
- 2004 · The Heart of Me as Dinah
- 2000 · Carnivale as Milly (voice)
- 1998 · The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly
- 1996 · Shadow Play as Ada
- Future · Not Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
- 2001 · Football as Mum
- 1997 · Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary
- 1994 · A Dark Adapted Eye as
- 1993 · Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie
- 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
- 1988 · The Mask as Iris
- Future · Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore
- Future · The Offing as Dulcie Piper
- Future · The Land of Sometimes as Little Twink
- 1989 · Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff
- Future · The Well of Saint Nobody as
- 1987 · The Vision as Jo Marriner
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self