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 |