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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The Land of Sometimes | Mediocris (voice) | 2026-05-07 |
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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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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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The Real Nolly | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-02-02 |
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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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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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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Self | 2022-05-03 |
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Dragonheart: Vengeance | Siveth (voice) | 2021-03-01 |
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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser | Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021-10-14 |
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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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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson | Self - Readings | 2020-12-23 |
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The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader | 2020-12-25 |
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Enola Holmes | Eudoria Holmes | 2020-09-23 |
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Clown | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
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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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Tintoretto - Un ribelle a Venezia | Narrator (voice) | 2019-02-25 |
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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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55 Steps | Eleanor Riese | 2018-03-01 |
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Reimagining The Met Gala | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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Ocean's Eight | Rose Weil | 2018-06-07 |
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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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Suffragette | Edith Ellyn | 2015-10-16 |
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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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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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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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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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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 Price of Kings: Shimon Peres | Narrator | 2012-04-30 |
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A Therapy | Patient | 2012-05-22 |
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Great Expectations | Miss Havisham | 2012-11-30 |
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Les Misérables | Madame Thénardier | 2012-12-18 |
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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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The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat | Narrator | 2012-03-19 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2011-07-12 |
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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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The Gruffalo's Child | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice | 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: The Mad Hatter | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Iracebeth / Red Queen | 2010-03-03 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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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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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Bellatrix Lestrange | 2009-07-15 |
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Enid | Enid Blyton | 2009-11-16 |
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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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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 | 2007-12-21 |
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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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Magnificent 7 | Maggi Jackson | 2005-12-13 |
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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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Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride (voice) | 2005-09-12 |
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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 | 2003-12-04 |
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Till Human Voices Wake Us | Ruby | 2002-09-12 |
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Live from Baghdad | Ingrid Formanek | 2002-12-07 |
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Planet of the Apes | Ari | 2001-07-26 |
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Novocaine | Susan | 2001-11-23 |
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Football | Mum | 2001-01-01 |
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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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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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Portraits chinois | Ada | 1996-09-12 |
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Twelfth Night | Olivia | 1996-10-25 |
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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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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Elizabeth | 1994-11-04 |
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Butter | Dorothy | 1994-01-01 |
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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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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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A Hazard of Hearts | Serena Staverley | 1987-12-27 |
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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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Lady Jane | Lady Jane Grey | 1986-02-07 |
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A Room with a View | Lucy Honeychurch | 1986-03-07 |
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A Pattern of Roses | Netty (The Past) | 1983-12-29 |
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Not Bloody Likely | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
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The Offing | Dulcie Piper | |
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The Well of Saint Nobody | Tara | |
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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty | Self | |
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Enola Holmes 3 | Eudoria Holmes |
