Helena Bonham Carter 1966 59
Helena Bonham Carter 1966 59
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.
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2025 Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore
2025 Enola Holmes 3 as Eudoria Holmes
2025 The Well of Saint Nobody as Tara
2025 The Offing as Dulcie Piper
2025 The Land of Sometimes as Little Twink (voice)
2025 Not Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
2025 James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self
2024 Merchant Ivory as Self
2023 Charles III: The Coronation Year as Narrator
2023 One Life as Babi Winton
2023 imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
2023 The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)
2023 The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022 Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022 Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes
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 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
2020 The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
2020 Clown as Narrator (voice)
2020 Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla
2020 The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings
2020 Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes
2020 Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)
2019 Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
2019 E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self
2019 Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)
2018 Reimagining The Met Gala as Self
2018 Ocean's Team 3.0 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 Executive Producer
2017 Poles Apart as Nanuk
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass as Iracebeth / Red Queen
2015 Suffragette as Edith Ellyn
2015 Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
2015 Wild Africa as Narrator
2014 Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice)
2014 Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self
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 A Therapy as Patient
2012 Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman
2012 The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres as Narrator
2012 The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat as Narrator
2011 The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)
2011 When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
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: Effecting Wonderland as Self
2010 Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self
2010 Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self
2010 Alice in Wonderland as Iracebeth / Red Queen
2009 The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)
2009 Enid as Enid Blyton
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Bellatrix Lestrange
2009 Terminator Salvation as Serena
2008 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd as Self
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Bellatrix Lestrange
2006 Sixty Six as Esther Rubens
2006 Conversations with Other Women as Woman
2005 Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson
2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
2005 Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Mrs. Bucket
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
2004 The Heart of Me as Dinah
2003 Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
2002 Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
2002 Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby
2001 Women Talking Dirty as Cora
2001 Novocaine as Susan
2001 Planet of the Apes as Ari
2001 Football as Mum
2000 Carnivale as Milly (voice)
1999 Fight Club as Marla Singer
1999 The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard
1998 The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly
1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary
1997 The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy
1996 Twelfth Night as Olivia
1996 Shadow Play as Ada
1995 Mighty Aphrodite as Amanda
1995 Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth
1994 Butter as Dorothy
1993 Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald
1993 Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie
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
1991 Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Ophelia (archive footage)
1990 Hamlet as Ophelia
1990 Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter as Beatrix Potter
1989 Getting It Right as Minerva Munday
1989 Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff
1989 Francesco as Chiara
1988 The Mask as Iris
1987 A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley
1987 The Vision as Jo Marriner
1987 Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match
1986 A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch
1986 Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey
1983 A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
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