
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.
Acting (103 movies)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005

Planet of the Apes
2001

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005

Terminator Salvation
2009

Big Fish
2003

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007

The Revengers' Comedies
1998

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994

Hamlet
1990

Corpse Bride
2005

Enola Holmes 2
2022

Lady Jane
1986

Novocaine
2001

A Room with a View
1986

Sixty Six
2006

Mighty Aphrodite
1995

The Heart of Me
2004

Howards End
1992

Alice in Wonderland
2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011

The Real Nolly
2023

The Gruffalo
2009

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022

Live from Baghdad
2002

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007

Till Human Voices Wake Us
2002

Enid
2009

Conversations with Other Women
2006

Twelfth Night
1996

Dark Shadows
2012

The Wings of the Dove
1997

A Hazard of Hearts
1987

The House
2022

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019

Toast
2010

Margaret's Museum
1995

The Gruffalo's Child
2011

Les Misérables
2012

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997

Francesco
1989

The Lone Ranger
2013

The Theory of Flight
1999

Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991

Getting It Right
1989

Arms and the Man
1989

Great Expectations
2012

Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022

Women Talking Dirty
2001

Merchant Ivory
2024

The Mask
1988

A Therapy
2012

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013

Carnivale
2000

Burton and Taylor
2013

Discovering Hamlet
2011

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021

Suffragette
2015

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019

The Velveteen Rabbit
2023

The King's Speech
2010

Turks & Caicos
2014

Salting the Battlefield
2014

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023

Charles III: The Coronation Year
2023

One Life
2023

Fight Club
1999

Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016

Night Will Fall
2014

Ocean's Team 3.0
2018

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011

Shadow Play
1996

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022

Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993

Magnificent 7
2005

Four Letters of Love
2025

Ocean's Eight
2018

A Pattern of Roses
1983

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018

55 Steps
2018

Maurice
1987

Poles Apart
2017

The Vision
1987

Wild Africa
2015

Butter
1994

Football
2001

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
1990

Enola Holmes
2020

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019

Brown Bear's Wedding
1991

White Bear's Secret
1992

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004

Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020

Clown
2020

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013

Cinderella
2015
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| 55 Steps | 2018 | Executive Producer |