Helena Bonham Carter
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
156
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-05-26 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Golders Green, London, England, UK
Helena Bonham Carter
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.
Known For
The Graham Norton Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Crown
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Miami Vice
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Fight Club
Golden Globe Awards
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The View
American Idol
Corpse Bride
Cinderella
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Ocean's Eight
GMTV
Enola Holmes
The Oscars
Absolutely Fabulous
Dark Shadows
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Planet of the Apes
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Terminator Salvation
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Big Fish
One Life
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Howards End
Les Misérables
The Lone Ranger
The King's Speech
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Screen Two
The Gruffalo
Toast
Enola Holmes 2
Francesco
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Merlin
Mighty Aphrodite
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Great Expectations
So Graham Norton
The Mask
Novocaine
Poles Apart
Carnivale
The House
55 Steps
Hamlet
Lady Jane
Merchant Ivory
A Room with a View
Maurice
The Gruffalo's Child
Butter
Wild Africa
Shadow Play
The Cleaner
The Velveteen Rabbit
Sixty Six
Football
The Vision
Enola Holmes 3
Magnificent 7
Suffragette
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Henry VIII
Enid
Margaret's Museum
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Night Will Fall
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
The Wings of the Dove
The Kumars at No. 42
Life's Too Short
Salting the Battlefield
Conversations with Other Women
A Pattern of Roses
Nolly
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
The Land of Sometimes
Twelfth Night
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Revengers' Comedies
Burton and Taylor
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
The Entertainment Biz
Bluey Book Reads
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
The Heart of Me
A Hazard of Hearts
Women Talking Dirty
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
The Theory of Flight
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Arms and the Man
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
When Harry Left Hogwarts
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Eden: Untamed Planet
Rik Mayall Presents
Ocean's Team 3.0
Getting It Right
Love, Nina
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
My Grandparents' War
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Wild Babies
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Turks & Caicos
The Offing
Discovering Hamlet
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Not Bloody Likely
Live from Baghdad
Four Letters of Love
The Well of Saint Nobody
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Live from Studio Five
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
A Therapy
A Dark Adapted Eye
California Avenue
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Reimagining The Met Gala
The Real Nolly
Brown Bear's Wedding
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
White Bear's Secret
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Clown
