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.
164 acting credits
Acting · 164
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Crown
2016
Miami Vice
1984
The View
1997
American Idol
2002
Fight Club
1999
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
The Oscars
1953
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Screen Two
1985
Alice in Wonderland
2010
GMTV
1993
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Cinderella
2015
Corpse Bride
2005
Ocean's Eight
2018
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Enola Holmes
2020
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
2026
Les Misérables
2012
Terminator Salvation
2009
Dark Shadows
2012
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
The Cleaner
2021
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
Planet of the Apes
2001
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
The King's Speech
2010
Big Fish
2003
Enola Holmes 2
2022
So Graham Norton
1998
Enola Holmes 3
2026
Merlin
1998
The Lone Ranger
2013
Henry VIII
2003
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
A Room with a View
1986
Life's Too Short
2011
The Entertainment Biz
1998
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
One Life
2023
Love, Nina
2016
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996
Howards End
1992
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Maurice
1987
My Grandparents' War
2019
The House
2022
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
Suffragette
2015
The Gruffalo
2009
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025
Great Expectations
2012
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Four Letters of Love
2025
Bluey Book Reads
2024
Nolly
2023
Hamlet
1990
Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021
Twelfth Night
1996
The Wings of the Dove
1997
The Land of Sometimes
2026
Lady Jane
1986
Live from Baghdad
2002
A Dark Adapted Eye
1994
Wild Babies
2022
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Salting the Battlefield
2014
Eden: Untamed Planet
2021
Toast
2010
The Gruffalo's Child
2011
Turks & Caicos
2014
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Novocaine
2001
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
The Velveteen Rabbit
2023
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
Sixty Six
2006
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
Night Will Fall
2014
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
Live from Studio Five
2009
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994
55 Steps
2018
Conversations with Other Women
2006
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020
Women Talking Dirty
2001
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
Pantoffelkino
2013
Merchant Ivory
2024
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
Ocean's Team 3.0
2018
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
2010
The Housekeeper
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Francesco
1989
The Theory of Flight
1999
California Avenue
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Burton and Taylor
2013
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
2010
A Pattern of Roses
1983
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012
Enid
2009
Reimagining The Met Gala
2018
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
The Heart of Me
2004
Arms and the Man
1989
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020
Getting It Right
1989
Clown
2020
The Vision
1987
Butter
1994
Shadow Play
1996
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
2000
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020
The Mask
1988
Margaret's Museum
1995
Carnivale
2000
Till Human Voices Wake Us
2002
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
2010
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
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Magnificent 7
2005
Riding a Train of Thoughts
2014
The Well of Saint Nobody
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022
Football
2001
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
2016
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
2021
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
White Bear's Secret
1992
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
1990
Poles Apart
2017
Wild Africa
2015
Charles III: The Coronation Year
2023
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
2012
Brown Bear's Wedding
1991
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026
Not Bloody Likely
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The Real Nolly
2023
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
2012
The Offing
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