Helena Bonham Carter
Acting • Born 1966-05-26
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.
Filmography
160 credits
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Movie • 2005
Mrs. Bucket
Planet of the Apes
Movie • 2001
Ari
Terminator Salvation
Movie • 2009
Serena
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Movie • 2005
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Big Fish
Movie • 2003
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie • 2007
Bellatrix Lestrange
The Revengers' Comedies
Movie • 1998
Karen Knightly
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Movie • 2009
Bellatrix Lestrange
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie • 1994
Elizabeth
Hamlet
Movie • 1990
Ophelia
Corpse Bride
Movie • 2005
Corpse Bride (voice)
Enola Holmes 2
Movie • 2022
Eudoria Holmes
Lady Jane
Movie • 1986
Lady Jane Grey
Novocaine
Movie • 2001
Susan
A Room with a View
Movie • 1986
Lucy Honeychurch
Sixty Six
Movie • 2006
Esther Rubens
Mighty Aphrodite
Movie • 1995
Amanda
Howards End
Movie • 1992
Helen Schlegel
The Heart of Me
Movie • 2004
Dinah
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 2010
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie • 2010
Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie • 2011
Bellatrix Lestrange
The Real Nolly
Movie • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Gruffalo
Movie • 2009
Mother Squirrel (voice)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Movie • 2022
Self
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie • 2007
Mrs. Lovett
Live from Baghdad
Movie • 2002
Ingrid Formanek
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Movie • 2002
Ruby
Enid
Movie • 2009
Enid Blyton
Conversations with Other Women
Movie • 2006
Woman
Twelfth Night
Movie • 1996
Olivia
Dark Shadows
Movie • 2012
Dr. Julia Hoffman
The Wings of the Dove
Movie • 1997
Kate Croy
The Offing
Movie
Dulcie Piper
A Hazard of Hearts
Movie • 1987
Serena Staverley
The House
Movie • 2022
Jen (voice)
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Movie • 2019
Self
Margaret's Museum
Movie • 1995
Margaret MacNeil
Toast
Movie • 2010
Mrs Potter
The Gruffalo's Child
Movie • 2011
Mother Squirrel (voice)
Les Misérables
Movie • 2012
Madame Thénardier
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Movie • 1997
Rosemary
Francesco
Movie • 1989
Chiara
The Lone Ranger
Movie • 2013
Red Harrington
The Theory of Flight
Movie • 1999
Jane Hatchard
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Movie • 1991
Caroline Abbott
Getting It Right
Movie • 1989
Minerva Munday
Arms and the Man
Movie • 1989
Raina Petkoff
Great Expectations
Movie • 2012
Miss Havisham
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Movie • 2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
Women Talking Dirty
Movie • 2001
Cora
Merchant Ivory
Movie • 2024
Self
The Mask
Movie • 1988
Iris
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Movie • 2013
Dr. Clair
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Carnivale
Movie • 2000
Milly (voice)
Burton and Taylor
Movie • 2013
Elizabeth Taylor
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 2011
Ophelia (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Suffragette
Movie • 2015
Edith Ellyn
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Movie • 2019
Self
The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie • 2023
Wise Horse (voice)
The King's Speech
Movie • 2010
Queen Elizabeth
Turks & Caicos
Movie • 2014
Margot Tyrell
Salting the Battlefield
Movie • 2014
Margot Tyrell
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Movie • 1993
Marina Oswald
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Movie • 2023
Self
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Movie • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
One Life
Movie • 2023
Babi Winton
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie • 2016
Iracebeth / Red Queen
Fight Club
Movie • 1999
Marla Singer
Reimagining The Met Gala
Movie • 2018
Self
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Movie • 2014
Self
Night Will Fall
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)
Ocean's Team 3.0
Movie • 2018
Self
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Movie • 2011
Self
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Movie
Self
Shadow Play
Movie • 1996
Ada
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Movie • 2022
Self
Magnificent 7
Movie • 2005
Maggi Jackson
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Movie • 1993
Pandora / Julie
The Well of Saint Nobody
Movie
Tara
Four Letters of Love
Movie • 2025
Margaret Gore
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Ocean's Eight
Movie • 2018
Rose Weil
A Pattern of Roses
Movie • 1983
Netty (The Past)
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Movie • 2018
Margaret Conroy (voice)
55 Steps
Movie • 2018
Eleanor Riese
Maurice
Movie • 1987
Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
The Land of Sometimes
Movie • 2026
Mediocris (voice)
Poles Apart
Movie • 2017
Nanuk
The Vision
Movie • 1987
Jo Marriner
Wild Africa
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Butter
Movie • 1994
Dorothy
Football
Movie • 2001
Mum
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Movie • 1990
Beatrix Potter
Enola Holmes
Movie • 2020
Eudoria Holmes
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Brown Bear's Wedding
Movie • 1991
White Bear (voice)
White Bear's Secret
Movie • 1992
White Bear (voice)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Movie • 2004
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Movie • 2021
Siveth (voice)
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Movie • 2012
Self
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Movie • 2010
Self
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Movie • 2010
Self
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Movie • 2008
Self
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Movie • 2020
Lady Devilla
Clown
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Not Bloody Likely
Movie
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Movie • 2013
Self
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Movie • 2020
reader
Cinderella
Movie • 2015
Fairy Godmother
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Movie • 2020
Self - Readings
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Movie • 2010
Self
Enola Holmes 3
Movie
Eudoria Holmes
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Movie • 2014
Self
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Movie • 2021
Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Movie • 2024
Self
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Housekeeper
Movie
Adelaide
The Kumars at No. 42
TV • 2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self - Guest
Miami Vice
TV • 1984
Dr. Theresa Lyons
The View
TV • 1997
Self
American Idol
TV • 2002
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
So Graham Norton
TV • 1998
Self - Guest
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
TV • 1994
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Eden: Untamed Planet
TV • 2021
Self - Narrator (voice)
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
Merlin
TV • 1998
Morgan le Fay
The Cleaner
TV • 2021
Sheila
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TV • 2017
Self
Love, Nina
TV • 2016
George
Rik Mayall Presents
TV • 1993
Pandora / Julie
Henry VIII
TV • 2003
Anne Boleyn
Wild Babies
TV • 2022
Narrator
The Crown
TV • 2016
Princess Margaret
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Life's Too Short
TV • 2011
Helena Bonham Carter
Nolly
TV • 2023
Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
My Grandparents' War
TV • 2019
Self
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV • 2000
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
TV • 2026
Lady Caterham
A Dark Adapted Eye
TV • 1994
Faith Severn
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
TV • 1996
Vera Brittain (voice)
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Jo Marriner
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TV • 2019
All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
California Avenue
TV
Eddie
The Entertainment Biz
TV • 1998
Self
Bluey Book Reads
TV • 2024
Reader
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
TV • 2025
Self
Pantoffelkino
TV • 2013
Self - Interviewee
Late Show with David Letterman
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Absolutely Fabulous
TV • 1992
Dream Saffron