Helena Bonham Carter
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-05-26
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.
Also Known For
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Jul 13, 2005
Planet of the Apes
Jul 25, 2001
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Sep 15, 2005
Terminator Salvation
May 20, 2009
Big Fish
Dec 25, 2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Jul 08, 2007
The Revengers' Comedies
Jun 09, 1998
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Jul 15, 2009
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Nov 04, 1994
Hamlet
Dec 19, 1990
Corpse Bride
Sep 12, 2005
Enola Holmes 2
Nov 30, 2022
Lady Jane
Feb 07, 1986
Novocaine
Nov 23, 2001
A Room with a View
Mar 07, 1986
Sixty Six
Nov 03, 2006
Mighty Aphrodite
Sep 13, 1995
Howards End
Mar 13, 1992
The Heart of Me
Feb 10, 2004
Alice in Wonderland
Mar 03, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Nov 17, 2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Jul 12, 2011
The Real Nolly
Feb 02, 2023
The Gruffalo
Dec 25, 2009
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Jan 01, 2022
Live from Baghdad
Dec 07, 2002
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Dec 20, 2007
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Sep 12, 2002
Enid
Nov 16, 2009
Conversations with Other Women
Jun 07, 2006
Twelfth Night
Oct 25, 1996
Dark Shadows
May 09, 2012
The Wings of the Dove
Sep 04, 1997
The Offing
A Hazard of Hearts
Dec 27, 1987
The House
Jan 14, 2022
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Oct 19, 2019
Toast
Dec 30, 2010
Margaret's Museum
Sep 13, 1995
The Gruffalo's Child
Dec 25, 2011
Les Misérables
Dec 18, 2012
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Nov 20, 1997
Francesco
Mar 22, 1989
The Lone Ranger
Jul 03, 2013
The Theory of Flight
Jan 22, 1999
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Jun 21, 1991
Getting It Right
May 05, 1989
Arms and the Man
Apr 16, 1989
Great Expectations
Nov 30, 2012
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Dec 02, 2022
Women Talking Dirty
Dec 07, 2001
Merchant Ivory
Aug 30, 2024
The Mask
May 10, 1988
A Therapy
May 22, 2012
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Oct 16, 2013
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Apr 30, 2012
Carnivale
Feb 09, 2000
Burton and Taylor
Jul 22, 2013
Discovering Hamlet
Nov 01, 2011
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Mar 26, 2021
Suffragette
Oct 16, 2015
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Oct 30, 2019
The Velveteen Rabbit
Nov 21, 2023
The King's Speech
Nov 26, 2010
Turks & Caicos
Mar 20, 2014
Salting the Battlefield
Mar 27, 2014
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Nov 15, 1993
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Dec 18, 2023
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Dec 26, 2023
One Life
Dec 21, 2023
Alice Through the Looking Glass
May 25, 2016
Fight Club
Oct 15, 1999
Reimagining The Met Gala
Sep 11, 2018
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Jun 06, 2014
Night Will Fall
Jun 07, 2014
Ocean's Team 3.0
Sep 11, 2018
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Nov 11, 2011
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Shadow Play
Sep 12, 1996
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
May 03, 2022
Magnificent 7
Dec 13, 2005
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Jun 03, 1993
The Well of Saint Nobody
Four Letters of Love
Jul 18, 2025
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Mar 19, 2012
Ocean's Eight
Jun 07, 2018
A Pattern of Roses
Dec 29, 1983
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Apr 13, 2018
55 Steps
Mar 01, 2018
Maurice
Sep 18, 1987
The Land of Sometimes
Poles Apart
Jun 28, 2017
The Vision
Nov 25, 1987
Wild Africa
Jan 01, 2015
Butter
Jan 01, 1994
Football
Jan 01, 2001
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Jun 08, 1990
Enola Holmes
Sep 23, 2020
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Feb 25, 2019
Brown Bear's Wedding
Dec 25, 1991
White Bear's Secret
Apr 19, 1992
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dec 16, 2004
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Mar 01, 2021
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Oct 09, 2012
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Jun 01, 2010
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Jun 01, 2010
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Apr 01, 2008
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Dec 24, 2020
Clown
Dec 25, 2020
Not Bloody Likely
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Apr 28, 2013
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Dec 25, 2020
Cinderella
Mar 06, 2015
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Dec 23, 2020
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Jun 01, 2010
Enola Holmes 3
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Jun 30, 2014
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Oct 14, 2021
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Jun 06, 2024
The Kumars at No. 42
Nov 12, 2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Nov 02, 2001
Miami Vice
Sep 16, 1984
The View
Aug 11, 1997
American Idol
Jun 11, 2002
Absolutely Fabulous
Nov 12, 1992
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
So Graham Norton
Jul 03, 1998
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
Apr 08, 1994
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
GMTV
Jan 01, 1993
Eden: Untamed Planet
Jul 24, 2021
Live from Studio Five
Sep 14, 2009
Merlin
Apr 26, 1998
The Cleaner
Sep 10, 2021
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
May 02, 2017
Love, Nina
May 20, 2016
Rik Mayall Presents
May 20, 1993
Henry VIII
Oct 12, 2003
Wild Babies
May 05, 2022
The Crown
Nov 04, 2016
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Life's Too Short
Nov 10, 2011
Nolly
Feb 02, 2023
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
My Grandparents' War
Nov 27, 2019
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Jan 02, 2000
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Jan 15, 2026
A Dark Adapted Eye
Jan 02, 1994
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Nov 10, 1996
Screen Two
Jan 06, 1985
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Aug 30, 2019
California Avenue
The Entertainment Biz
Feb 15, 1998
