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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The Real Nolly | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-02-02 |
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One Life | Babi Winton | 2023-12-21 |
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Charles III: The Coronation Year | Narrator | 2023-12-26 |
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The Velveteen Rabbit | Wise Horse (voice) | 2023-11-21 |
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imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me | Self | 2023-12-18 |
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2022-12-02 |
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Enola Holmes 2 | Eudoria Holmes | 2022-11-30 |
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The House | Jen (voice) | 2022-01-14 |
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Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | 2022-01-01 |
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 |
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Dragonheart: Vengeance | Siveth (voice) | 2021-03-01 |
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Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Lady Devilla | 2020-12-24 |
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Enola Holmes | Eudoria Holmes | 2020-09-23 |
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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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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson | Self - Readings | 2020-12-23 |
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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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55 Steps | Eleanor Riese | 2018-03-01 |
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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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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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Cinderella | Fairy Godmother | 2015-03-06 |
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Suffragette | Edith Ellyn | 2015-10-16 |
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Wild Africa | Narrator | 2015-01-01 |
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Turks & Caicos | Margot Tyrell | 2014-03-20 |
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Night Will Fall | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-07 |
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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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Le train où vont les choses | Self | 2014-06-06 |
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Burton and Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor | 2013-07-22 |
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Dr. Clair | 2013-10-16 |
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The Lone Ranger | Red Harrington | 2013-07-03 |
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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 Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat | Narrator | 2012-03-19 |
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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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The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres | Narrator | 2012-04-30 |
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Dark Shadows | Dr. Julia Hoffman | 2012-05-09 |
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Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons | Self | 2012-10-09 |
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Les Misérables | Madame Thénardier | 2012-12-18 |
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When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self | 2011-11-11 |
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Discovering Hamlet | Ophelia (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2011-07-12 |
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The Gruffalo's Child | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
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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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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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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2010-11-17 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Iracebeth / Red Queen | 2010-03-03 |
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Enid | Enid Blyton | 2009-11-16 |
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Terminator Salvation | Serena | 2009-05-20 |
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The Gruffalo | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
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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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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2007-07-08 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Mrs. Lovett | 2007-12-20 |
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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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Magnificent 7 | Maggi Jackson | 2005-12-13 |
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Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride (voice) | 2005-09-12 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mrs. Bucket | 2005-07-13 |
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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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Women Talking Dirty | Cora | 2001-12-07 |
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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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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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The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy | 1997-09-04 |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Rosemary | 1997-11-20 |
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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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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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White Bear's Secret | White Bear (voice) | 1992-04-19 |
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Howards End | Helen Schlegel | 1992-03-13 |
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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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Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff | 1989-04-16 |
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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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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 (uncredited) | 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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Enola Holmes 3 | Eudoria Holmes | |
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The Land of Sometimes | Mediocris (voice) | |
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The Well of Saint Nobody | Tara | |
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Not Bloody Likely | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty | Self | |
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The Offing | Dulcie Piper |
