Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
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
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movieEnola Holmes 3
2026
Eudoria Holmes
movieThe Land of Sometimes
2026
Mediocris (voice)
tvAgatha Christie's Seven Dials
2026
Lady Caterham
movieFour Letters of Love
2025
Margaret Gore
tvBluey Book Reads
2024
Reader
movieCharles III: The Coronation Year
2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieOne Life
2023
Babi Winton
movieThe Velveteen Rabbit
2023
Wise Horse (voice)
movieThe Real Nolly
2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
tvNolly
2023
Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
movieThree Minutes: A Lengthening
2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieEnola Holmes 2
2022
Eudoria Holmes
tvWild Babies
2022
Narrator
movieThe House
2022
Jen (voice)
movieAlice: Curiouser and Curiouser
2021
Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvThe Cleaner
2021
Sheila
tvEden: Untamed Planet
2021
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieDragonheart: Vengeance
2021
Siveth (voice)
movieClown
2020
Narrator (voice)
movieEnola Holmes
2020
Eudoria Holmes
tvThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
movieTintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
Narrator (voice)
movieOcean's Eight
2018
Rose Weil
movieSgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
Margaret Conroy (voice)
movie55 Steps
2018
Eleanor Riese
moviePoles Apart
2017
Nanuk
movieWild Africa / Tiny Giants
2016
Narrator (Wild Africa)
tvThe Crown
2016
Princess Margaret
movieAlice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Iracebeth / Red Queen
tvLove, Nina
2016
George
movieSuffragette
2015
Edith Ellyn
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
movieCinderella
2015
Fairy Godmother
movieWild Africa
2015
Narrator
movieNight Will Fall
2014
Narrator (voice)
movieSalting the Battlefield
2014
Margot Tyrell
movieTurks & Caicos
2014
Margot Tyrell
movieBurton and Taylor
2013
Elizabeth Taylor
movieThe Lone Ranger
2013
Red Harrington
Pantoffelkino
2013
Self - Interviewee
movieLes Misérables
2012
Madame Thénardier
movieGreat Expectations
2012
Miss Havisham
movieDark Shadows
2012
Dr. Julia Hoffman
movieThe Gruffalo's Child
2011
Mother Squirrel (voice)
tvLife's Too Short
2011
Helena Bonham Carter
movieDiscovering Hamlet
2011
Ophelia (archive footage)
movieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Bellatrix Lestrange
movieToast
2010
Mrs Potter
movieThe King's Speech
2010
Queen Elizabeth
movieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Bellatrix Lestrange
movieAlice in Wonderland
2010
Iracebeth / Red Queen
movieThe Gruffalo
2009
Mother Squirrel (voice)
movieEnid
2009
Enid Blyton
tvWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Self - Guest
movieHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Bellatrix Lestrange
movieHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Bellatrix Lestrange
movieSixty Six
2006
Esther Rubens
movieMagnificent 7
2005
Maggi Jackson
movieWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
movieCorpse Bride
2005
Corpse Bride (voice)
movieCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
Mrs. Bucket
movieLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
movieBig Fish
2003
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
tvHenry VIII
2003
Anne Boleyn
movieCelebrity Naked Ambition
2003
Self (archive footage)
movieLive from Baghdad
2002
Ingrid Formanek
movieNovocaine
2001
Susan
tvFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Self - Guest
movieCarnivale
2000
Milly (voice)
movieFight Club
1999
Marla Singer
movieThe Theory of Flight
1999
Jane Hatchard
tvSo Graham Norton
1998
Self - Guest
movieThe Revengers' Comedies
1998
Karen Knightly
tvMerlin
1998
Morgan le Fay
movieThe Wings of the Dove
1997
Kate Croy
tvThe View
1997
Self
tvThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
Vera Brittain (voice)
movieTwelfth Night
1996
Olivia
movieMargaret's Museum
1995
Margaret MacNeil
movieMary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Elizabeth
tvA Dark Adapted Eye
1994
Faith Severn
movieButter
1994
Dorothy
movieFatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
Marina Oswald
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Self - Guest
tvLate Show with David Letterman
1993
Self - Guest
movieRik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993
Pandora / Julie
tvRik Mayall Presents
1993
Pandora / Julie
tvGMTV
1993
Self
tvAbsolutely Fabulous
1992
Dream Saffron
movieWhite Bear's Secret
1992
White Bear (voice)
movieHowards End
1992
Helen Schlegel
movieBrown Bear's Wedding
1991
White Bear (voice)
movieWhere Angels Fear to Tread
1991
Caroline Abbott
movieHamlet
1990
Ophelia
movieBeatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
1990
Beatrix Potter
movieGetting It Right
1989
Minerva Munday
movieArms and the Man
1989
Raina Petkoff
movieFrancesco
1989
Chiara
movieA Hazard of Hearts
1987
Serena Staverley
movieThe Vision
1987
Jo Marriner
movieMaurice
1987
Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
movieA Room with a View
1986
Lucy Honeychurch
movieLady Jane
1986
Lady Jane Grey
tvScreen Two
1985
Jo Marriner
tvMiami Vice
1984
Dr. Theresa Lyons
movieA Pattern of Roses
1983
Netty (The Past)
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
The Offing
Dulcie Piper
Not Bloody Likely
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Production2
movie55 Steps
2018
Executive Producer
California Avenue
Executive Producer