Acting · Golders Green, London, England, UK · Born May 26, 1966
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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2024
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2023
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2023
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2023
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MovieThree Minutes: A Lengthening
2022
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MovieEnola Holmes 2
2022
as Eudoria Holmes
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2022
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2022
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2022
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MovieHarry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
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2021
as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVThe Cleaner
2021
as Sheila
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2021
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MovieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
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MovieDragonheart: Vengeance
2021
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MovieClown
2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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MovieEnola Holmes
2020
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2019
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2019
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MovieE. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019
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2019
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2019
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2017
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2017
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2016
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2016
as Princess Margaret
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2016
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2016
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MovieSuffragette
2015
as Edith Ellyn
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
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2015
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2015
as Fairy Godmother
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2015
as Narrator
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2014
as Self
MovieNight Will Fall
2014
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2014
as Self
MovieSalting the Battlefield
2014
as Margot Tyrell
MovieTurks & Caicos
2014
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2013
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2013
as Elizabeth Taylor
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2013
as Red Harrington
Pantoffelkino
2013
as Self - Interviewee
MovieDon't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
as Self
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2012
as Madame Thénardier
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2012
as Miss Havisham
MovieDark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012
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2012
as Dr. Julia Hoffman
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
2012
as Narrator
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
2012
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MovieThe Gruffalo's Child
2011
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
MovieWhen Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
TVLife's Too Short
2011
as Helena Bonham Carter
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2011
as Ophelia (archive footage)
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Bellatrix Lestrange
MovieToast
2010
as Mrs Potter
MovieThe King's Speech
2010
as Queen Elizabeth
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
2010
as Self
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
2010
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MovieAlice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
2010
as Self
MovieAlice in Wonderland
2010
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
MovieThe Gruffalo
2009
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
MovieEnid
2009
as Enid Blyton
TVLive from Studio Five
2009
as Self
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Bellatrix Lestrange
MovieTerminator Salvation
2009
as Serena
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008
as Self
MovieSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Mrs. Lovett
MovieHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Bellatrix Lestrange
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
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2006
as Esther Rubens
MovieConversations with Other Women
2006
as Woman
MovieMagnificent 7
2005
as Maggi Jackson
MovieWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
MovieCorpse Bride
2005
as Corpse Bride (voice)
MovieCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Mrs. Bucket
MovieLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
MovieThe Heart of Me
2004
as Dinah
MovieBig Fish
2003
as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
TVHenry VIII
2003
as Anne Boleyn
MovieCelebrity Naked Ambition
2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLive from Baghdad
2002
as Ingrid Formanek
MovieTill Human Voices Wake Us
2002
as Ruby
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2002
as Self
MovieWomen Talking Dirty
2001
as Cora
MovieNovocaine
2001
as Susan
TVThe Kumars at No. 42
2001
TVFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
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2001
as Ari
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2001
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MovieFight Club: Behind the Scenes
2000
as Self
MovieCarnivale
2000
as Milly (voice)
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2000
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1999
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1999
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TVSo Graham Norton
1998
as Self - Guest
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1998
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TVMerlin
1998
as Morgan le Fay
The Entertainment Biz
1998
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1997
as Rosemary
MovieThe Wings of the Dove
1997
as Kate Croy
TVThe View
1997
as Self
TVThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
as Vera Brittain (voice)
MovieTwelfth Night
1996
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MovieShadow Play
1996
as Ada
MovieMighty Aphrodite
1995
as Amanda
MovieMargaret's Museum
1995
as Margaret MacNeil
MovieMary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Elizabeth
TVJo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994
TVA Dark Adapted Eye
1994
as Faith Severn
MovieButter
1994
as Dorothy
MovieFatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Marina Oswald
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
TVLate Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieRik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993
as Pandora / Julie
TVRik Mayall Presents
1993
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TVGMTV
1993
as Self
TVAbsolutely Fabulous
1992
as Dream Saffron
MovieWhite Bear's Secret
1992
as White Bear (voice)
MovieHowards End
1992
as Helen Schlegel
MovieBrown Bear's Wedding
1991
as White Bear (voice)
MovieWhere Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Caroline Abbott
MovieHamlet
1990
as Ophelia
MovieBeatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
1990
as Beatrix Potter
MovieGetting It Right
1989
as Minerva Munday
MovieArms and the Man
1989
as Raina Petkoff
MovieFrancesco
1989
as Chiara
MovieThe Mask
1988
as Iris
MovieA Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Serena Staverley
MovieThe Vision
1987
as Jo Marriner
MovieMaurice
1987
as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
MovieA Room with a View
1986
as Lucy Honeychurch
MovieLady Jane
1986
as Lady Jane Grey
TVScreen Two
1985
as Jo Marriner
TVMiami Vice
1984
as Dr. Theresa Lyons
MovieA Pattern of Roses
1983
as Netty (The Past)
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
The Offing
as Dulcie Piper
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
as Self
The Well of Saint Nobody
as Tara
Not Bloody Likely
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The Housekeeper
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California Avenue
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