Helena Bonham Carter
Known for Acting · 164 credits
- Born
- 1966-05-26 (age 60)
- Place of birth
- Golders Green, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Helena Bonham-Carter
Biography
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
TV Shows (41)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
The Crown
2016
as Princess Margaret
The View
1997
as Self
American Idol
2002
as Self
Miami Vice
1984
as Dr. Theresa Lyons
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Screen Two
1985
as Jo Marriner
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
as Dream Saffron
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
GMTV
1993
as Self
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
Merlin
1998
as Morgan le Fay
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
2026
as Lady Caterham
So Graham Norton
1998
as Self - Guest
The Cleaner
2021
as Sheila
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
Life's Too Short
2011
as Helena Bonham Carter
Love, Nina
2016
as George
Henry VIII
2003
as Anne Boleyn
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
Pantoffelkino
2013
as Self - Interviewee
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025
as Self
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
as Pandora / Julie
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
as Vera Brittain (voice)
My Grandparents' War
2019
as Self
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self
Nolly
2023
as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
Bluey Book Reads
2024
as Reader
Wild Babies
2022
as Narrator
Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994
Eden: Untamed Planet
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
California Avenue
as Eddie
A Dark Adapted Eye
1994
as Faith Severn
Movies (123)
Enola Holmes 3
2026
as Eudoria Holmes
Fight Club
1999
as Marla Singer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Corpse Bride
2005
as Corpse Bride (voice)
Enola Holmes
2020
as Eudoria Holmes
Cinderella
2015
as Fairy Godmother
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Mrs. Bucket
Enola Holmes 2
2022
as Eudoria Holmes
Les Misérables
2012
as Madame Thénardier
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Ocean's Eight
2018
as Rose Weil
Terminator Salvation
2009
as Serena
Dark Shadows
2012
as Dr. Julia Hoffman
The King's Speech
2010
as Queen Elizabeth
Planet of the Apes
2001
as Ari
Big Fish
2003
as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
The Lone Ranger
2013
as Red Harrington
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Mrs. Lovett
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
The House
2022
as Jen (voice)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021
as Siveth (voice)
The Land of Sometimes
2026
as Mediocris (voice)
A Room with a View
1986
as Lucy Honeychurch
Maurice
1987
as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
Suffragette
2015
as Edith Ellyn
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Elizabeth
The Gruffalo
2009
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
Howards End
1992
as Helen Schlegel
Great Expectations
2012
as Miss Havisham
Riding a Train of Thoughts
2014
as Self
Lady Jane
1986
as Lady Jane Grey
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
as Dr. Clair
The Mask
1988
as Iris
The Housekeeper
as Adelaide
The Wings of the Dove
1997
as Kate Croy
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Shadow Play
1996
as Ada
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Amanda
The Gruffalo's Child
2011
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
The Velveteen Rabbit
2023
as Wise Horse (voice)
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
as Self (archive footage)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
Turks & Caicos
2014
as Margot Tyrell
Four Letters of Love
2025
as Margaret Gore
The Vision
1987
as Jo Marriner
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026
as Self
Women Talking Dirty
2001
as Cora
Burton and Taylor
2013
as Elizabeth Taylor
White Bear's Secret
1992
as White Bear (voice)
Night Will Fall
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Twelfth Night
1996
as Olivia
55 Steps
2018
as Eleanor Riese
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Margot Tyrell
Novocaine
2001
as Susan
Hamlet
1990
as Ophelia
Toast
2010
as Mrs Potter
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
2010
as Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Karen Knightly
Brown Bear's Wedding
1991
as White Bear (voice)
One Life
2023
as Babi Winton
Live from Baghdad
2002
as Ingrid Formanek
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Rosemary
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
2010
as Self
Getting It Right
1989
as Minerva Munday
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Serena Staverley
Sixty Six
2006
as Esther Rubens
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Caroline Abbott
Francesco
1989
as Chiara
Conversations with Other Women
2006
as Woman
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
2010
as Self
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Ophelia (archive footage)
The Theory of Flight
1999
as Jane Hatchard
The Heart of Me
2004
as Dinah
A Pattern of Roses
1983
as Netty (The Past)
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
as Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
as Self
Wild Africa
2015
as Narrator
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Football
2001
as Mum
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
2016
as Narrator (Wild Africa)
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
as Self
Reimagining The Met Gala
2018
as Self
Arms and the Man
1989
as Raina Petkoff
Enid
2009
as Enid Blyton
Clown
2020
as Narrator (voice)
The Well of Saint Nobody
as Tara
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
2000
as Self
Ocean's Team 3.0
2018
as Self
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020
as Self - Readings
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
2021
as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020
as reader
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020
as Lady Devilla
Margaret's Museum
1995
as Margaret MacNeil
The Real Nolly
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Carnivale
2000
as Milly (voice)
Not Bloody Likely
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012
as Self
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024
as Self
Magnificent 7
2005
as Maggi Jackson
Poles Apart
2017
as Nanuk
Butter
1994
as Dorothy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008
as Self
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
2012
as Narrator
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
as Self
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
as Self
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
as Self
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Marina Oswald
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993
as Pandora / Julie
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
2012
as Narrator
Charles III: The Coronation Year
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Till Human Voices Wake Us
2002
as Ruby
About 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… With 164 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Helena Bonham Carter has appeared in 123 films and 41 TV shows.
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Most Popular Helena Bonham Carter Movies
- Enola Holmes 3 (2026) — as Eudoria Holmes
- Fight Club (1999) — as Marla Singer
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Bellatrix Lestrange
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Bellatrix Lestrange
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) — as Bellatrix Lestrange
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