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Personal Info

Birth date

1966-05-26 (59 Years)

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Golders Green, London, England, UK

Also known as

Helena Bonham-Carter
헬레나 본햄 카터
海倫娜·寶漢·卡特
海伦娜·博纳姆·卡特
هلنا بونهام کارتر
هلنا بونهم کارتر

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.

Filmography

Acting

TBACalifornia Avenue as Eddie

TBAThe Seven Dials Mystery (1 Episode) as Lady Caterham

TBAEnola Holmes 3 as Eudoria Holmes

TBANot Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

TBAThe Land of Sometimes as Little Twink (voice)

TBAThe Well of Saint Nobody as Tara

TBAJames Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self

TBAThe Offing as Dulcie Piper

2025Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore

2024Merchant Ivory as Self

2023Charles III: The Coronation Year as Narrator

2023One Life as Babi Winton

2023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self

2023The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)

2023The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023Nolly (3 Episodes) as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon

2022Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)

2022Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes

2022Wild Babies (8 Episodes) as Narrator

2022Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self

2022The House as Jen (voice)

2022Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self

2021The Cleaner (1 Episode) as Sheila

2021Eden: Untamed Planet (6 Episodes) as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)

2021Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)

2020Clown as Narrator (voice)

2020The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader

2020Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla

2020The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings

2020Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes

2019My Grandparents' War (1 Episode) as Self

2019Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self

2019E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self

2019The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (4 Episodes) as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)

2019Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)

2018Reimagining The Met Gala as Self

2018Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self

2018Ocean's Eight as Rose Weil

2018Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Margaret Conroy (voice)

201855 Steps as Eleanor Riese

2017Poles Apart as Nanuk

2017Tate Britain's Great Art Walks (1 Episode) as Self

2016The Crown (20 Episodes) as Princess Margaret

2016Alice Through the Looking Glass as Iracebeth / Red Queen

2016Love, Nina (5 Episodes) as George

2015Suffragette as Edith Ellyn

2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (1 Episode) as Self

2015Cinderella as Fairy Godmother

2015Wild Africa as Narrator

2014Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley as Self

2014Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice)

2014Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self

2014Salting the Battlefield as Margot Tyrell

2014Turks & Caicos as Margot Tyrell

2013The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Dr. Clair

2013Burton and Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor

2013The Lone Ranger as Red Harrington

2013Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self

2012Les Misérables as Madame Thénardier

2012Great Expectations as Miss Havisham

2012Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons as Self

2012A Therapy as Patient

2012Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman

2012The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres as Narrator

2012The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat as Narrator

2011The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)

2011When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self

2011Life's Too Short (1 Episode) as Helena Bonham Carter

2011Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)

2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Bellatrix Lestrange

2010Toast as Mrs Potter

2010The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth

2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Bellatrix Lestrange

2010Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self

2010Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self

2010Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland as Self

2010Alice in Wonderland as Iracebeth / Red Queen

2009The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)

2009Creating the World of Harry Potter (8 Episodes) as Self - 'Bellatrix Lestrange'

2009Enid as Enid Blyton

2009Live from Studio Five (1 Episode) as Self

2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Bellatrix Lestrange

2009Terminator Salvation as Serena

2008Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd as Self

2007Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett

2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Bellatrix Lestrange

2007The Graham Norton Show (4 Episodes) as Self

2006Sixty Six as Esther Rubens

2006Conversations with Other Women as Woman

2005Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson

2005Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)

2005Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)

2005Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Mrs. Bucket

2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)

2004The Heart of Me as Dinah

2003Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch

2003Henry VIII (2 Episodes) as Anne Boleyn

2002Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek

2002Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby

2002American Idol (1 Episode) as Self

2001Women Talking Dirty as Cora

2001Novocaine as Susan

2001The Kumars at No. 42 (1 Episode) as Unknown

2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

2001Planet of the Apes as Ari

2001Football as Mum

2000Carnivale as Milly (voice)

2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1999Fight Club as Marla Singer

1999The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard

1998So Graham Norton (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

1998The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly

1998Merlin (2 Episodes) as Morgan le Fay

1998The Entertainment Biz (1 Episode) as Self

1997Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary

1997The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy

1997The View (2 Episodes) as Self

1996The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1 Episode) as Vera Brittain (voice)

1996Twelfth Night as Olivia

1996Shadow Play as Ada

1995Mighty Aphrodite as Amanda

1995Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil

1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth

1994Jo Brand Through the Cakehole (1 Episode) as Unknown

1994A Dark Adapted Eye (2 Episodes) as Faith Severn

1994Butter as Dorothy

1993Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald

1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

1993Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie

1993Rik Mayall Presents (1 Episode) as Pandora / Julie

1993GMTV (2 Episodes) as Self

1992Absolutely Fabulous (1 Episode) as Dream Saffron

1992White Bear's Secret as White Bear (voice)

1992Howards End as Helen Schlegel

1991Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)

1991Where Angels Fear to Tread as Caroline Abbott

1991Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Ophelia (archive footage)

1990Hamlet as Ophelia

1990Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter as Beatrix Potter

1989Getting It Right as Minerva Munday

1989Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff

1989Francesco as Chiara

1988The Mask as Iris

1987A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley

1987The Vision as Jo Marriner

1987Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)

1986A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch

1986Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey

1985Screen Two (1 Episode) as Jo Marriner

1984Miami Vice (2 Episodes) as Dr. Theresa Lyons

1983A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)

1953The Oscars (1 Episode) as Self

1944Golden Globe Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

Production

TBACalifornia Avenue ... Executive Producer

201855 Steps ... Executive Producer