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 | 2025-07-18 |
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Merchant Ivory | Self | 2024-08-30 |
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Tim Burton: Life in the Line | Self | 2024-06-06 |
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imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me | Self | 2023-12-18 |
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The Velveteen Rabbit | Wise Horse (voice) | 2023-11-21 |
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The Real Nolly | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-02-02 |
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Charles III: The Coronation Year | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-12-26 |
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One Life | Babi Winton | 2023-12-21 |
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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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Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | 2022-01-01 |
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
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The House | Jen (voice) | 2022-01-14 |
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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser | Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-10-14 |
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Dragonheart: Vengeance | Siveth (voice) | 2021-03-01 |
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 |
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Clown | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson | Self - Readings | 2020-12-23 |
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Enola Holmes | Eudoria Holmes | 2020-09-23 |
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Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Lady Devilla | 2020-12-24 |
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The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader | 2020-12-25 |
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E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey | Self | 2019-10-19 |
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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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Reimagining The Met Gala | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Margaret Conroy (voice) | 2018-04-13 |
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55 Steps | Eleanor Riese | 2018-03-01 |
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Ocean's Eight | Rose Weil | 2018-06-07 |
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Ocean's Team 3.0 | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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Poles Apart | Nanuk | 2017-06-28 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Iracebeth / Red Queen | 2016-05-25 |
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Wild Africa | Narrator | 2015-01-01 |
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Cinderella | Fairy Godmother | 2015-03-06 |
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Suffragette | Edith Ellyn | 2015-10-16 |
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Night Will Fall | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-07 |
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Turks & Caicos | Margot Tyrell | 2014-03-20 |
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Le train où vont les choses | Self | 2014-06-06 |
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Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley | Self | 2014-06-30 |
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Salting the Battlefield | Margot Tyrell | 2014-03-27 |
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The Lone Ranger | Red Harrington | 2013-07-03 |
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Burton and Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor | 2013-07-22 |
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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 Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Dr. Clair | 2013-10-16 |
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The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat | Narrator | 2012-03-19 |
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The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres | Narrator | 2012-04-30 |
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Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons | Self | 2012-10-09 |
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Dark Shadows | Dr. Julia Hoffman | 2012-05-09 |
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Great Expectations | Miss Havisham | 2012-11-30 |
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A Therapy | Patient | 2012-05-22 |
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Les Misérables | Madame Thénardier | 2012-12-18 |
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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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The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth | 2010-11-26 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Iracebeth / Red Queen | 2010-03-03 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Toast | Mrs Potter | 2010-12-30 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2010-11-17 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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The Gruffalo | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
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Enid | Enid Blyton | 2009-11-16 |
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Terminator Salvation | Serena | 2009-05-20 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2009-07-15 |
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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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Conversations with Other Women | Woman | 2006-06-07 |
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Sixty Six | Esther Rubens | 2006-11-03 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mrs. Bucket | 2005-07-13 |
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Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride (voice) | 2005-09-12 |
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Magnificent 7 | Maggi Jackson | 2005-12-13 |
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Lady Campanula Tottington (voice) | 2005-09-15 |
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The Heart of Me | Dinah | 2004-02-10 |
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited) | 2004-12-16 |
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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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Novocaine | Susan | 2001-11-23 |
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Planet of the Apes | Ari | 2001-07-25 |
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Women Talking Dirty | Cora | 2001-12-07 |
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Football | Mum | 2001-01-01 |
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Carnivale | Milly (voice) | 2000-02-09 |
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Fight Club | Marla Singer | 1999-10-15 |
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The Theory of Flight | Jane Hatchard | 1999-01-22 |
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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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Butter | Dorothy | 1994-01-01 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Elizabeth | 1994-11-04 |
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Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald | Marina Oswald | 1993-11-15 |
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Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen | Pandora / Julie | 1993-06-03 |
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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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Hamlet | Ophelia | 1990-12-19 |
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Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter | Beatrix Potter | 1990-06-08 |
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Francesco | Chiara | 1989-03-22 |
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Getting It Right | Minerva Munday | 1989-05-05 |
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Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff | 1989-04-16 |
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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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A Hazard of Hearts | Serena Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
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Maurice | Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited) | 1987-09-18 |
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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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Enola Holmes 3 | Eudoria Holmes | |
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The Offing | Dulcie Piper | |
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The Land of Sometimes | Mediocris (voice) | |
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Not Bloody Likely | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
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The Well of Saint Nobody | Tara | |
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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty | Self |
