Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
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.
Born: May 26, 1966
Place of Birth: Golders Green, London, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Margaret Gore
as Self
as Self
as Reader
as Narrator
as Babi Winton
as Wise Horse (voice)
as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Eudoria Holmes
as Narrator
as Jen (voice)
as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Sheila
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Siveth (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Lady Devilla
as Eudoria Holmes
as Self
as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Rose Weil
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
as Eleanor Riese
as Nanuk
as Princess Margaret
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
as George
as Edith Ellyn
as Fairy Godmother
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Margot Tyrell
as Margot Tyrell
as Dr. Clair
as Elizabeth Taylor
as Red Harrington
as Madame Thénardier
as Miss Havisham
as Patient
as Dr. Julia Hoffman
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
as Self
as Helena Bonham Carter
as Ophelia (archive footage)
as Bellatrix Lestrange
as Mrs Potter
as Queen Elizabeth
as Bellatrix Lestrange
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
as Enid Blyton
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Bellatrix Lestrange
as Serena
as Mrs. Lovett
as Bellatrix Lestrange
as Self
as Esther Rubens
as Woman
as Maggi Jackson
as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
as Corpse Bride (voice)
as Mrs. Bucket
as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
as Dinah
as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
as Anne Boleyn
as Ingrid Formanek
as Ruby
as Self
as Cora
as Susan
as Self - Guest
as Ari
as Mum
as Milly (voice)
as Marla Singer
as Jane Hatchard
as Self - Guest
as Karen Knightly
as Morgan le Fay
as Rosemary
as Kate Croy
as Self
as Vera Brittain (voice)
as Olivia
as Ada
as Amanda
as Margaret MacNeil
as Elizabeth
as Faith Severn
as Dorothy
as Marina Oswald
as Self - Guest
as Pandora / Julie
as Pandora / Julie
as Self
as Dream Saffron
as White Bear (voice)
as Helen Schlegel
as White Bear (voice)
as Caroline Abbott
as Ophelia
as Beatrix Potter
as Minerva Munday
as Raina Petkoff
as Chiara
as Iris
as Serena Staverley
as Jo Marriner
as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
as Lucy Honeychurch
as Lady Jane Grey
as Jo Marriner
as Dr. Theresa Lyons
as Netty (The Past)
as Self
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
as Mediocris (voice)
as Eudoria Holmes
as Lady Caterham