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Helena Bonham Carter
Actor, Producer, DirectorBorn May 26, 1966 (58 years)
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.
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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| 2025 | The Land of Sometimes · as Little Twink |
| 2024 | Four Letters of Love · as Margaret Gore |
| 2023 | Charles III: The Coronation Year · as Narrator |
| 2023 | One Life · as Babi Winton |
| 2023 | The Velveteen Rabbit · as Wise Horse (voice) |
| 2023 | Nolly (TV Series) · as Noele 'nolly' Gordon |
| 2022 | Enola Holmes 2 · as Eudoria Holmes |
| 2022 | Wild Babies (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2022 | The House · as Jen (voice) |
| 2021 | The Cleaner (2021) (TV Series) · as Sheila |
| 2020 | Clown · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas · as Lady Devilla |
| 2020 | Enola Holmes · as Eudoria Holmes |
| 2020 | Dragonheart Vengeance · as Siveth (voice) |
| 2019 | The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series) · as All-Maudra (voice) |
| 2019 | Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Ocean's Eight · as Rose Weil |
| 2018 | Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero · as Margaret Conroy (voice) |
| 2017 | 55 Steps · as Eleanor Riese |
| 2016 | The Crown (TV Series) · as Princess Margaret |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass · as Red Queen |
| 2016 | Love, Nina (TV Series) · as George |
| 2015 | Suffragette · as Edith Ellyn |
| 2015 | Cinderella · as Fairy Godmother |
| 2015 | Wild Africa · as Narrator |
| 2014 | Night Will Fall · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield · as Margot Tyrell |
| 2014 | Turks & Caicos · as Margot Tyrell |
| 2014 | Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts · as Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2013 | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet · as Dr. Clair |
| 2013 | Burton and Taylor · as Elizabeth Taylor |
| 2013 | The Lone Ranger · as Red Harrington |
| 2012 | Les Misérables · as Madame Thénardier |
| 2012 | Great Expectations · as Miss Havisham |
| 2012 | A Therapy · as Patient |
| 2012 | Dark Shadows · as Dr. Julia Hoffman |
| 2011 | The Gruffalo's Child · as Mother Squirrel (voice) |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet · as Ophelia (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Worricker (TV Series) · as Margot Tyrrell |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · as Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | The King's Speech · as Queen Elizabeth |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 · as Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland · as The Red Queen |
| 2009 | The Gruffalo · as Mother Squirrel (voice) |
| 2009 | Enid · as Enid Blyton |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince · as Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2009 | Terminator Salvation · as Serena |
| 2009 | Enid: Deleted Scenes · as Enid Blyton |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street · as Mrs. Lovett |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix · as Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2006 | Sixty Six · as Esther Rubens |
| 2005 | Conversations with Other Women · as Woman |
| 2005 | Magnificent 7 · as Maggi Jackson |
| 2005 | Corpse Bride · as Corpse Bride (voice) |
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit · as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice) |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · as Mrs. Bucket |
| 2005 | 'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit': On the Set - Part 1 · as Lady Companula Tottington |
| 2004 | A Series of Unfortunate Events · as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited) |
| 2003 | Big Fish · as Jenny (young & Senior) / The Witch |
| 2003 | Henry VIII · as Anne Boleyn |
| 2003 | Henry VIII (TV Series) · as Anne Boleyn |
| 2003 | Celebrity Naked Ambition · as Cast |
| 2002 | Live from Baghdad · as Ingrid Formanek |
| 2002 | Till Human Voices Wake Us · as Ruby |
| 2002 | The Heart of Me · as Dinah |
| 2001 | Novocaine · as Susan |
| 2001 | The Kumars at No 42 (TV Series) |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes · as Ari |
| 1999 | Women Talking Dirty · as Cora |
| 1999 | Carnivale · as Milly (voice) |
| 1999 | |
| 1999 | Fight Club · as Marla Singer |
| 1998 | The Theory of Flight · as Jane Hatchard |
| 1998 | The Revengers' Comedies · as Karen Knightly |
| 1998 | Merlin (1998) (TV Series) · as Morgan Le Fay |
| 1997 | A Merry War · as Rosemary |
| 1997 | Storyville (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1997 | The Wings of the Dove · as Kate Croy |
| 1997 | Venice Report · as Kate Croy |
| 1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV Series) · as Vera Brittain (voice) |
| 1996 | Twelfth Night · as Olivia |
| 1996 | Shadow Play · as Ada |
| 1995 | Mighty Aphrodite · as Amanda |
| 1995 | Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex · as Cast |
| 1995 | Margaret's Museum · as Margaret Macneil |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein · as Elizabeth |
| 1994 | A Dark Adapted Eye · as Faith Severn |
| 1994 | A Dark Adapted Eye (TV Series) · as Faith Severn |
| 1994 | Butter · as Dorothy |
| 1993 | Jo Brand Through the Cakehole (TV Series) |
| 1993 | Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald · as Marina Oswald |
| 1993 | Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen · as Pandora / Julie |
| 1993 | The Good Sex Guide (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1992 | Absolutely Fabulous (TV Series) · as Dream Saffron |
| 1992 | Howards End · as Helen Schlegel |
| 1992 | White Bear's Secret · as White Bear (voice) |
| 1991 | Brown Bear's Wedding · as White Bear (voice) |
| 1991 | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School · as Ophelia (archive Footage) |
| 1991 | Where Angels Fear to Tread · as Caroline Abbott |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | Getting It Right · as Minerva Munday |
| 1989 | |
| 1989 | Troldspejlet (TV Series) · as Ari |
| 1988 | La maschera · as Iris |
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts · as Serena Staverley |
| 1987 | Maurice · as Young Lady At Cricket Match |
| 1986 | Lady Jane · as Lady Jane Grey |
| 1985 | A Room with a View · as Lucy Honeychurch |
| 1985 | Theatre Night (TV Series) · as Raina Petkoff |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Jo Marriner |
| 1984 | Miami Vice (TV Series) |
| 1983 | A Pattern of Roses · as Netty (the Past) |
| 1965 | Jackanory (TV Series) · as Storyteller |