Helena Bonham Carter
- Acting
- May 26, 1966 · Golders Green, London, England, UK
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory · Voice
- Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond · Readings
- Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World · Self
- Enola Holmes 3 · Eudoria Holmes
- The Land of Sometimes · Mediocris (Voice)
- Agatha Christie's Seven Dials · Lady Caterham
- Tim Burton: Life in the Line · Self
- Four Letters of Love · Margaret Gore
- Merchant Ivory · Self
- Bluey Book Reads · Reader
- Charles III: The Coronation Year · Self
- One Life · Babi Winton
- imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me · Self
- The Velveteen Rabbit · Wise Horse (Voice)
- The Real Nolly · Self
- Nolly · Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
- Three Minutes: A Lengthening · Self
- Enola Holmes 2 · Eudoria Holmes
- Wild Babies · Narrator
- Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends · Self
- The House · Jen (Voice)
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts · Self
- Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser · Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Cleaner · Sheila
- Eden: Untamed Planet · Self
- Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony · Self
- Dragonheart: Vengeance · Siveth (Voice)
- Clown · Narrator (Voice)
- The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson · reader
- Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas · Lady Devilla
- The Magical World of Julia Donaldson · Self
- Enola Holmes · Eudoria Holmes
- My Grandparents' War · Self
- Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered · Self
- E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey · Self
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance · All-Maudra Mayrin (Voice)
- Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice · Narrator (Voice)
- Reimagining The Met Gala · Self
- Ocean's Team 3.0 · Self
- Ocean's Eight · Rose Weil
- Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero · Margaret Conroy (Voice)
- 55 Steps · Eleanor Riese, Executive producer
- Poles Apart · Nanuk (Voice)
- Tate Britain's Great Art Walks · Self
- Wild Africa / Tiny Giants · Narrator (Wild Africa)
- The Crown · Princess Margaret
- Alice Through the Looking Glass · Iracebeth / Red Queen
- Love, Nina · George
- Suffragette · Edith Ellyn
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Cinderella · Fairy Godmother
- Wild Africa · Narrator
- Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley · Self
- Night Will Fall · Narrator (Voice)
- Riding a Train of Thoughts · Self
- Salting the Battlefield · Margot Tyrell
- Turks & Caicos · Margot Tyrell
- The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet · Dr. Clair
- Burton and Taylor · Elizabeth Taylor
- The Lone Ranger · Red Harrington
- Pantoffelkino · Self
- Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck · Self
- Les Misérables · Madame Thénardier
- Great Expectations · Miss Havisham
- Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons · Self
- Dark Shadows · Dr. Julia Hoffman
- The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres · Narrator
- The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat · Narrator
- The Gruffalo's Child · Mother Squirrel (Voice)
- When Harry Left Hogwarts · Self
- Life's Too Short · Helena Bonham Carter
- Discovering Hamlet · Ophelia (archive footage)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · Bellatrix Lestrange
- Toast · Mrs Potter
- The King's Speech · Queen Elizabeth
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 · Bellatrix Lestrange
- Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice · Self
- Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter · Self
- Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland · Self