1966-05-26 Golders Green, London, England, UK
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.
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Four Letters of Love | Margaret Gore | 2025-04-25 |
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Merchant Ivory | Self | 2024-08-30 |
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Charles III: The Coronation Year | Narrator | 2023-12-26 |
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The Real Nolly | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-02-02 |
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imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me | Self | 2023-12-18 |
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One Life | Babi Winton | 2023-12-21 |
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The Velveteen Rabbit | Wise Horse (voice) | 2023-11-21 |
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Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | 2022-01-01 |
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The House | Jen (voice) | 2022-01-14 |
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
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Enola Holmes 2 | Eudoria Holmes | 2022-11-30 |
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2022-12-02 |
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 |
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Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Lady Devilla | 2020-12-24 |
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Dragonheart: Vengeance | Siveth (voice) | 2020-02-04 |
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The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader | 2020-12-25 |
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Clown | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
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Enola Holmes | Eudoria Holmes | 2020-09-23 |
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Tintoretto - Un ribelle a Venezia | Narrator (voice) | 2019-02-25 |
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Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered | Self | 2019-10-30 |
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E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey | Self | 2019-10-19 |
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Ocean's Eight | Rose Weil | 2018-06-07 |
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55 Steps | Eleanor Riese | 2018-03-01 |
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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Margaret Conroy (voice) | 2018-04-13 |
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Ocean's Team 3.0 | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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Reimagining The Met Gala | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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Poles Apart | Nanuk | 2017-06-28 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Red Queen | 2016-05-25 |
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Suffragette | Edith Ellyn | 2015-10-16 |
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Wild Africa | Narrator | 2015-01-01 |
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Cinderella | Fairy Godmother | 2015-03-06 |
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Night Will Fall | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-07 |
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Le train où vont les choses | Self | 2014-06-06 |
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Turks & Caicos | Margot Tyrell | 2014-03-20 |
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Salting the Battlefield | Margot Tyrell | 2014-03-27 |
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Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | Self | 2013-04-28 |
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The Lone Ranger | Red Harrington | 2013-07-03 |
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Dr. Clair | 2013-10-16 |
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Burton and Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor | 2013-07-22 |
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Great Expectations | Miss Havisham | 2012-11-30 |
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Dark Shadows | Dr. Julia Hoffman | 2012-05-09 |
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A Therapy | Patient | 2012-05-22 |
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The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat | Narrator | 2012-03-19 |
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Les Misérables | Madame Thénardier | 2012-12-18 |
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Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons | Self | 2012-10-09 |
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The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres | Narrator | 2012-04-30 |
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The Gruffalo's Child | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2011-07-12 |
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Discovering Hamlet | Ophelia (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
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When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self | 2011-11-11 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2010-11-17 |
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Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Alice in Wonderland | The Red Queen | 2010-03-03 |
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Toast | Mrs Potter | 2010-12-30 |
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The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth | 2010-11-26 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Enid | Enid Blyton | 2009-11-16 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2009-07-15 |
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The Gruffalo | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
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Terminator Salvation | Serena | 2009-05-20 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd | Self | 2008-04-01 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Mrs. Lovett | 2007-12-20 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2007-07-08 |
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Sixty Six | Esther Rubens | 2006-11-03 |
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Conversations with Other Women | Woman | 2006-06-07 |
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Lady Campanula Tottington (voice) | 2005-09-04 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mrs. Bucket | 2005-07-13 |
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Magnificent 7 | Maggi Jackson | 2005-12-13 |
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Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride (voice) | 2005-09-12 |
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited) | 2004-12-16 |
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The Heart of Me | Dinah | 2004-02-10 |
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Big Fish | Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch | 2003-12-25 |
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Live from Baghdad | Ingrid Formanek | 2002-12-07 |
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Till Human Voices Wake Us | Ruby | 2002-09-12 |
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Football | Mum | 2001-01-01 |
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Planet of the Apes | Ari | 2001-07-25 |
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Novocaine | Susan | 2001-11-23 |
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Women Talking Dirty | Cora | 2001-12-07 |
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Carnivale | Milly (voice) | 2000-02-09 |
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The Theory of Flight | Jane Hatchard | 1999-01-22 |
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Fight Club | Marla Singer | 1999-10-15 |
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The Revengers' Comedies | Karen Knightly | 1998-06-09 |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Rosemary | 1997-11-20 |
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The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy | 1997-09-04 |
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Twelfth Night | Olivia | 1996-10-25 |
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Portraits chinois | Ada | 1996-09-12 |
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Mighty Aphrodite | Amanda | 1995-09-13 |
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Margaret's Museum | Margaret MacNeil | 1995-09-13 |
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A Dark Adapted Eye | Faith Severn | 1994-01-02 |
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Butter | Dorothy | 1994-01-01 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Elizabeth | 1994-11-04 |
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Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen | Pandora / Julie | 1993-06-03 |
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Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald | Marina Oswald | 1993-11-15 |
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Howards End | Helen Schlegel | 1992-03-13 |
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White Bear's Secret | White Bear (voice) | 1992-04-19 |
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Where Angels Fear to Tread | Caroline Abbott | 1991-06-21 |
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Brown Bear's Wedding | White Bear (voice) | 1991-12-25 |
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Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Ophelia (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
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Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter | Beatrix Potter | 1990-06-08 |
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Hamlet | Ophelia | 1990-12-19 |
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Francesco | Chiara | 1989-03-22 |
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Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff | 1989-04-16 |
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Getting It Right | Minerva Munday | 1989-05-05 |
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La maschera | Iris | 1988-05-10 |
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The Vision | Jo Marriner | 1987-11-25 |
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Maurice | Young Lady at Cricket Match | 1987-09-18 |
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A Hazard of Hearts | Serena Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
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A Room with a View | Lucy Honeychurch | 1986-03-07 |
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Lady Jane | Lady Jane Grey | 1986-02-07 |
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A Pattern of Roses | Netty (The Past) | 1983-12-29 |
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The Offing | Dulcie Piper | |
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Not Bloody Likely | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
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The Well of Saint Nobody | Tara | |
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Enola Holmes 3 | Eudoria Holmes | |
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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty | Self | |
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The Land of Sometimes | Little Twink |
