Helena Bonham Carter
Overview
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.
Corpse Bride
Average rating: 7.6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Average rating: 8.1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Average rating: 7.8
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Average rating: 7.7
Cinderella
Average rating: 6.8
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Average rating: 7.7
Alice in Wonderland
Average rating: 6.6
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Average rating: 7.1
Fight Club
Average rating: 8.4
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Average rating: 7.3
Planet of the Apes
Average rating: 5.8
Terminator Salvation
Average rating: 6.1
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Average rating: 7.2
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Average rating: 6.6
Ocean's Eight
Average rating: 7
The Graham Norton Show
Average rating: 7.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Average rating: 5.7
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Average rating: 4.9
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Average rating: 5.8
The Crown
Average rating: 8.2
So Graham Norton
Average rating: 6.3
Miami Vice
Average rating: 7.5
The Oscars
Average rating: 7
Absolutely Fabulous
Average rating: 7.5
The View
Average rating: 4.5
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Average rating: 7.1
American Idol
Average rating: 5.1
The Cleaner
Average rating: 7
Live from Studio Five
Average rating: 3.3
GMTV
Average rating: 5.8Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Movie | Four Letters of Love | Margaret Gore |
| 2024 | Movie | Merchant Ivory | Self |
| 2023 | Movie | Charles III: The Coronation Year | Narrator |
| 2023 | Movie | One Life | Babi Winton |
| 2023 | Movie | imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me | Self |
| 2023 | Movie | The Velveteen Rabbit | Wise Horse (voice) |
| 2023 | Movie | The Real Nolly | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | Tv Show | Nolly | Noele 'Nolly' Gordon |
| 2022 | Movie | Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Movie | Enola Holmes 2 | Eudoria Holmes |
| 2022 | Tv Show | Wild Babies | Narrator |
| 2022 | Movie | Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self |
| 2022 | Movie | The House | Jen (voice) |
| 2022 | Movie | Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self |
| 2021 | Tv Show | The Cleaner | Sheila |
| 2021 | Tv Show | Eden: Untamed Planet | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | Movie | Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Movie | Clown | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Movie | The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader |
| 2020 | Movie | Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Lady Devilla |
| 2020 | Movie | Enola Holmes | Eudoria Holmes |
| 2020 | Movie | Dragonheart: Vengeance | Siveth (voice) |
| 2019 | Tv Show | My Grandparents' War | Self |
| 2019 | Movie | Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered | Self |
| 2019 | Movie | E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey | Self |
| 2019 | Tv Show | The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | All-Maudra (voice) |
| 2019 | Movie | Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Movie | Reimagining The Met Gala | Self |
| 2018 | Movie | Ocean's Team 3.0 | Self |
| 2018 | Movie | Ocean's Eight | Rose Weil |
| 2018 | Movie | Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Margaret Conroy (voice) |
| 2018 | Movie | 55 Steps | Eleanor Riese |
| 2017 | Movie | Poles Apart | Nanuk |
| 2017 | Tv Show | Tate Britain's Great Art Walks | Self |
| 2016 | Tv Show | The Crown | Princess Margaret |
| 2016 | Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Red Queen |
| 2016 | Tv Show | Love, Nina | George |
| 2015 | Movie | Suffragette | Edith Ellyn |
| 2015 | Tv Show | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2015 | Movie | Cinderella | Fairy Godmother |
| 2015 | Movie | Wild Africa | Narrator |
| 2014 | Movie | Night Will Fall | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Movie | Riding a Train of Thoughts | Self |
| 2014 | Movie | Salting the Battlefield | Margot Tyrell |
| 2014 | Movie | Turks & Caicos | Margot Tyrell |
| 2013 | Movie | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Dr. Clair |
| 2013 | Movie | Burton and Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor |
| 2013 | Movie | The Lone Ranger | Red Harrington |
| 2013 | Movie | Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | Self |
| 2012 | Movie | Les Misérables | Madame Thénardier |
| 2012 | Movie | Great Expectations | Miss Havisham |
| 2012 | Movie | Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons | Self |
| 2012 | Movie | A Therapy | Patient |
| 2012 | Movie | Dark Shadows | Dr. Julia Hoffman |
| 2012 | Movie | The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres | Narrator |
| 2012 | Movie | The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat | Narrator |
| 2011 | Movie | The Gruffalo's Child | Mother Squirrel (voice) |
| 2011 | Movie | When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self |
| 2011 | Tv Show | Life's Too Short | Helena Bonham Carter |
| 2011 | Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Ophelia (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2010 | Movie | Toast | Mrs Potter |
| 2010 | Movie | The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth |
| 2010 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2010 | Movie | Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice | Self |
| 2010 | Movie | Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter | Self |
| 2010 | Movie | Alice in Wonderland | The Red Queen |
| 2009 | Movie | The Gruffalo | Mother Squirrel (voice) |
| 2009 | Movie | Enid | Enid Blyton |
| 2009 | Tv Show | Live from Studio Five | Self |
| 2009 | Tv Show | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2009 | Movie | Terminator Salvation | Serena |
| 2008 | Movie | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd | Self |
| 2007 | Movie | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Mrs. Lovett |
| 2007 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Bellatrix Lestrange |
| 2007 | Tv Show | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2006 | Movie | Sixty Six | Esther Rubens |
| 2006 | Movie | Conversations with Other Women | Woman |
| 2005 | Movie | Magnificent 7 | Maggi Jackson |
| 2005 | Movie | Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride (voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Lady Campanula Tottington (voice) |
| 2005 | Movie | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mrs. Bucket |
| 2004 | Movie | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Movie | The Heart of Me | Dinah |
| 2003 | Movie | Big Fish | Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch |
| 2003 | Tv Show | Henry VIII | Ana Bolena, reina de Inglaterra (2a esposa Enrique VIII) |
| 2002 | Movie | Live from Baghdad | Ingrid Formanek |
| 2002 | Movie | Till Human Voices Wake Us | Ruby |
| 2002 | Tv Show | American Idol | Self |
| 2001 | Movie | Women Talking Dirty | Cora |
| 2001 | Movie | Novocaine | Susan |
| 2001 | Tv Show | The Kumars at No. 42 | - |
| 2001 | Tv Show | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self - Guest |
| 2001 | Movie | Planet of the Apes | Ari |
| 2001 | Movie | Football | Mum |
| 2000 | Movie | Carnivale | Milly (voice) |
| 2000 | Tv Show | The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything | - |
| 1999 | Movie | Fight Club | Marla Singer |
| 1999 | Movie | The Theory of Flight | Jane Hatchard |
| 1998 | Tv Show | So Graham Norton | Self - Guest |
| 1998 | Movie | The Revengers' Comedies | Karen Knightly |
| 1998 | Tv Show | Merlin | Morgan le Fay |
| 1997 | Movie | Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Rosemary |
| 1997 | Movie | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy |
| 1997 | Tv Show | The View | Self |
| 1996 | Tv Show | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | Vera Brittain (voice) |
| 1996 | Movie | Twelfth Night | Olivia |
| 1996 | Movie | Shadow Play | Ada |
| 1995 | Movie | Mighty Aphrodite | Amanda |
| 1995 | Movie | Margaret's Museum | Margaret MacNeil |
| 1994 | Movie | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Elizabeth |
| 1994 | Tv Show | Jo Brand Through the Cakehole | - |
| 1994 | Tv Show | A Dark Adapted Eye | Faith Severn |
| 1994 | Movie | A Dark Adapted Eye | Faith Severn |
| 1994 | Movie | Butter | Dorothy |
| 1993 | Movie | Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald | Marina Oswald |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Movie | Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen | Pandora / Julie |
| 1993 | Tv Show | Rik Mayall Presents | Pandora / Julie |
| 1993 | Tv Show | GMTV | Self |
| 1992 | Tv Show | Absolutely Fabulous | Dream Saffron |
| 1992 | Movie | White Bear's Secret | White Bear (voice) |
| 1992 | Movie | Howards End | Helen Schlegel |
| 1991 | Movie | Brown Bear's Wedding | White Bear (voice) |
| 1991 | Movie | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Caroline Abbott |
| 1991 | Movie | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Ophelia (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Movie | Hamlet | Ophelia |
| 1990 | Movie | Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter | Beatrix Potter |
| 1989 | Movie | Getting It Right | Minerva Munday |
| 1989 | Movie | Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff |
| 1989 | Movie | Francesco | Chiara |
| 1988 | Movie | The Mask | Iris |
| 1987 | Movie | A Hazard of Hearts | Serena Staverley |
| 1987 | Movie | The Vision | Jo Marriner |
| 1987 | Movie | Maurice | Young Lady at Cricket Match |
| 1986 | Movie | A Room with a View | Lucy Honeychurch |
| 1986 | Movie | Lady Jane | Lady Jane Grey |
| 1985 | Tv Show | Screen Two | Jo Marriner |
| 1984 | Tv Show | Miami Vice | - |
| 1983 | Movie | A Pattern of Roses | Netty (The Past) |
| - | Tv Show | The Seven Dials Mystery | Lady Caterham |
| 1953 | Tv Show | The Oscars | Self |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Movie | 55 Steps | Production |