Helena Bonham Carter

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.

Cast

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

(Mrs. Bucket)

Planet of the Apes

(Ari)

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

(Lady Campanula Tottington (voice))

Terminator Salvation

(Serena)

Big Fish

(Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

(Bellatrix Lestrange)

The Revengers' Comedies

(Karen Knightly)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

(Bellatrix Lestrange)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

(Elizabeth)

Hamlet

(Ophelia)

Corpse Bride

(Corpse Bride (voice))

Enola Holmes 2

(Eudoria Holmes)

Lady Jane

(Lady Jane Grey)

Novocaine

(Susan)

A Room with a View

(Lucy Honeychurch)

Sixty Six

(Esther Rubens)

Mighty Aphrodite

(Amanda)

Howards End

(Helen Schlegel)

The Heart of Me

(Dinah)

Alice in Wonderland

(The Red Queen)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

(Bellatrix Lestrange)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

(Bellatrix Lestrange)

The Real Nolly

(Self - Narrator (voice))

The Gruffalo

(Mother Squirrel (voice))

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

(Self)

Live from Baghdad

(Ingrid Formanek)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

(Mrs. Lovett)

Till Human Voices Wake Us

(Ruby)

Enid

(Enid Blyton)

Conversations with Other Women

(Woman)

Twelfth Night

(Olivia)

Dark Shadows

(Dr. Julia Hoffman)

The Wings of the Dove

(Kate Croy)

The Offing

(Dulcie Piper)

A Hazard of Hearts

(Serena Staverley)

The House

(Jen (voice))

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

(Self)

Toast

(Mrs Potter)

Margaret's Museum

(Margaret MacNeil)

The Gruffalo's Child

(Mother Squirrel (voice))

Les Misérables

(Madame Thénardier)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

(Rosemary)

Francesco

(Chiara)

The Lone Ranger

(Red Harrington)

The Theory of Flight

(Jane Hatchard)

Where Angels Fear to Tread

(Caroline Abbott)

Getting It Right

(Minerva Munday)

Arms and the Man

(Raina Petkoff)

Great Expectations

(Miss Havisham)

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Women Talking Dirty

(Cora)

Merchant Ivory

(Self)

The Mask

(Iris)

A Therapy

(Patient)

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

(Dr. Clair)

The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres

(Narrator)

Carnivale

(Milly (voice))

Burton and Taylor

(Elizabeth Taylor)

Discovering Hamlet

(Ophelia (archive footage))

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

(Self (archive footage))

Suffragette

(Edith Ellyn)

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

(Self)

The Velveteen Rabbit

(Wise Horse (voice))

The King's Speech

(Queen Elizabeth)

Turks & Caicos

(Margot Tyrell)

Salting the Battlefield

(Margot Tyrell)

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald

(Marina Oswald)

A Dark Adapted Eye

(Faith Severn)

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

(Self)

Charles III: The Coronation Year

(Narrator)

One Life

(Babi Winton)

Alice Through the Looking Glass

(Red Queen)

Fight Club

(Marla Singer)

Reimagining The Met Gala

(Self)

Riding a Train of Thoughts

(Self)

Night Will Fall

(Narrator (voice))

Ocean's Team 3.0

(Self)

When Harry Left Hogwarts

(Self)

James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty

(Self)

Shadow Play

(Ada)

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

(Self)

Magnificent 7

(Maggi Jackson)

Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen

(Pandora / Julie)

The Well of Saint Nobody

(Tara)

Four Letters of Love

(Margaret Gore)

The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat

(Narrator)

Ocean's Eight

(Rose Weil)

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

(Ophelia (archive footage))

A Pattern of Roses

(Netty (The Past))

Enola Holmes 3

(Eudoria Holmes)

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

(Margaret Conroy (voice))

55 Steps

(Eleanor Riese)

Maurice

(Young Lady at Cricket Match)

The Land of Sometimes

(Little Twink)

Poles Apart

(Nanuk)

The Vision

(Jo Marriner)

Wild Africa

(Narrator)

Butter

(Dorothy)

Football

(Mum)

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

(Beatrix Potter)

Enola Holmes

(Eudoria Holmes)

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

(Narrator (voice))

Brown Bear's Wedding

(White Bear (voice))

White Bear's Secret

(White Bear (voice))

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

(Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited))

Dragonheart: Vengeance

(Siveth (voice))

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons

(Self)

Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice

(Self)

Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter

(Self)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd

(Self)

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

(Lady Devilla)

Clown

(Narrator (voice))

Not Bloody Likely

(Mrs. Patrick Campbell)

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck

(Self)

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

(reader)

Cinderella

(Fairy Godmother)

The Kumars at No. 42

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

(Self - Guest)

Miami Vice

The View

(Self)

American Idol

(Self)

Absolutely Fabulous

(Dream Saffron)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

(Self - Guest)

So Graham Norton

(Self - Guest)

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole

The Oscars

(Self)

GMTV

(Self)

Eden: Untamed Planet

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Live from Studio Five

(Self)

Merlin

(Morgan le Fay)

The Cleaner

(Sheila)

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

(Self)

Love, Nina

(George)

Rik Mayall Presents

(Pandora / Julie)

Henry VIII

(Ana Bolena, reina de Inglaterra (2a esposa Enrique VIII))

Wild Babies

(Narrator)

The Crown

(Princess Margaret)

The Graham Norton Show

(Self)

Life's Too Short

(Helena Bonham Carter)

Nolly

(Noele 'Nolly' Gordon)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

(Self - Guest)

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

(All-Maudra (voice))

My Grandparents' War

(Self)

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

The Seven Dials Mystery

(Lady Caterham)

A Dark Adapted Eye

(Faith Severn)

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

(Vera Brittain (voice))

Screen Two

(Jo Marriner)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

(Self)

Golden Globe Awards

(Self - Audience Member (uncredited))