Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
🎂 1966-05-26
Helena Bonham Carter CBE 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.
Cast credits(155)
Self
2007
Self - Guest
2009
Princess Margaret
2016
Dr. Theresa Lyons
1984
Marla Singer
1999
Bellatrix Lestrange
2007
Bellatrix Lestrange
2010
Bellatrix Lestrange
2011
Bellatrix Lestrange
2009
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1944
Corpse Bride (voice)
2005
Self
1997
Self
2002
Mrs. Bucket
2005
Fairy Godmother
2015
Self
2015
Iracebeth / Red Queen
2010
Rose Weil
2018
Self - Guest
1993
Dr. Julia Hoffman
2012
Self
1953
Iracebeth / Red Queen
2016
Serena
2009
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
2003
Jo Marriner
1985
Self
2022
Dream Saffron
1992
Madame Thénardier
2012
All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
2019
Ari
2001
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
2004
Mrs. Lovett
2007
Morgan le Fay
1998
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
2005
Queen Elizabeth
2010
Eudoria Holmes
2020
Self
1993
Elizabeth
1994
Eudoria Holmes
2022
Red Harrington
2013
Self - Guest
2001
Babi Winton
2023
Siveth (voice)
2021
Self - Guest
1998
Self - 'Bellatrix Lestrange'
2009
Wise Horse (voice)
2023
Jen (voice)
2022
Margaret Gore
2025
Dr. Clair
2013
Helen Schlegel
1992
Sheila
2021
Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
1987
Margaret Conroy (voice)
2018
Miss Havisham
2012
Lucy Honeychurch
1986
Ophelia (archive footage)
2011
Edith Ellyn
2015
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2009
Anne Boleyn
2003
Amanda
1995
Eleanor Riese
2018
Helena Bonham Carter
2011
Woman
2006
Mrs Potter
2010
Self
2014
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2011
Self
1998
Eudoria Holmes
Chiara
1989
Ophelia
1990
Elizabeth Taylor
2013
Self
2018
Self
2008
Lady Jane Grey
1986
Self (archive footage)
2021
Kate Croy
1997
Ingrid Formanek
2002
Jane Hatchard
1999
Self
2010
Narrator
2022
Olivia
1996
Susan
2001
Margot Tyrell
2014
Self
2018
2001
Lady Devilla
2020
Margot Tyrell
2014
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
2023
Esther Rubens
2006
George
2016
Dinah
2004
2000
Self
2012
Caroline Abbott
1991
Pandora / Julie
1993
Ruby
2002
Self
2019
Ophelia (archive footage)
1991
Narrator (voice)
2014
reader
2020
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Cora
2001
Patient
2012
Self - Readings
2020
Vera Brittain (voice)
1996
Serena Staverley
1987
Karen Knightly
1998
Jo Marriner
1987
Iris
1988
Maggi Jackson
2005
Self
2019
Self
2017
Self
2010
Pandora / Julie
1993
1994
Milly (voice)
2000
Self
2011
Eddie
Self
2013
Netty (The Past)
1983
Self
2019
Self
2010
Self
2024
Faith Severn
1994
Self
2022
Minerva Munday
1989
Narrator (voice)
2020
Raina Petkoff
1989
Enid Blyton
2009
Narrator (voice)
2019
White Bear (voice)
1991
Beatrix Potter
1990
Lady Caterham
Narrator
2023
Ada
1996
Margaret MacNeil
1995
Mum
2001
Mediocris (voice)
White Bear (voice)
1992
Self
2009
Rosemary
1997
Marina Oswald
1993
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Dulcie Piper
Tara
Dorothy
1994
Nanuk
2017
Narrator
2015
Self
2023
Self
2014
Self
Narrator
2012
Narrator
2012