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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-05-26
Place of birth
Golders Green, London, England, UK
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Cast
Planet of the Apes
2001
5.76
Terminator Salvation
2009
6.08
Big Fish
2003
7.76
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
5.57
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
6.44
Hamlet
1990
6.60
Corpse Bride
2005
7.58
Enola Holmes 2
2022
7.30
Lady Jane
1986
6.90
Novocaine
2001
6.00
A Room with a View
1986
6.94
Sixty Six
2006
6.60
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
6.71
Howards End
1992
7.00
The Heart of Me
2004
6.00
Alice in Wonderland
2010
6.64
The Real Nolly
2023
0.00
The Gruffalo
2009
7.33
Live from Baghdad
2002
6.70
Till Human Voices Wake Us
2002
5.20
Enid
2009
6.40
Conversations with Other Women
2006
6.32
Twelfth Night
1996
6.93
Dark Shadows
2012
6.10
The Wings of the Dove
1997
6.60
The Offing
0.00
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
7.78
The House
2022
7.02
Toast
2010
6.56
Margaret's Museum
1995
6.35
The Gruffalo's Child
2011
6.88
Les Misérables
2012
7.30
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
5.70
Francesco
1989
6.48
The Lone Ranger
2013
6.12
The Theory of Flight
1999
6.20
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
6.50
Getting It Right
1989
6.54
Arms and the Man
1989
9.50
Great Expectations
2012
6.40
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022
7.20
Women Talking Dirty
2001
5.09
Merchant Ivory
2024
7.70
The Mask
1988
6.63
A Therapy
2012
5.30
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
2012
10.00
Carnivale
2000
6.10
Burton and Taylor
2013
6.20
Discovering Hamlet
2011
7.00
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
4.50
Suffragette
2015
7.20
The Velveteen Rabbit
2023
7.00
The King's Speech
2010
7.73
Turks & Caicos
2014
6.25
Salting the Battlefield
2014
6.21
Charles III: The Coronation Year
2023
7.00
One Life
2023
7.77
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
6.56
Fight Club
1999
8.44
Reimagining The Met Gala
2018
8.00
Riding a Train of Thoughts
2014
7.00
Night Will Fall
2014
7.61
Ocean's Team 3.0
2018
8.00
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
7.00
Shadow Play
1996
7.40
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
8.00
Magnificent 7
2005
7.60
Four Letters of Love
2025
5.80
Ocean's Eight
2018
6.97
A Pattern of Roses
1983
5.00
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
7.89
55 Steps
2018
6.65
Maurice
1987
7.60
The Land of Sometimes
2026
0.00
Poles Apart
2017
8.70
The Vision
1987
10.00
Wild Africa
2015
8.00
Butter
1994
8.00
Football
2001
8.00
Enola Holmes
2020
7.20
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
8.10
Brown Bear's Wedding
1991
0.00
White Bear's Secret
1992
0.00
Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021
6.90
Clown
2020
5.60
Cinderella
2015
6.80
Enola Holmes 3
0.00
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
2021
0.00
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024
0.00