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