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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The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson | reader | 2020-12-25 |
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson | Self - Readings | 2020-12-23 |
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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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Clown | Narrator (voice) | 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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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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Ocean's Team 3.0 | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Margaret Conroy (voice) | 2018-04-13 |
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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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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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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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Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley | Self | 2014-06-30 |
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Night Will Fall | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-07 |
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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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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: Shimon Peres | Narrator | 2012-04-30 |
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Dark Shadows | Dr. Julia Hoffman | 2012-05-09 |
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Les Misérables | Madame Thénardier | 2012-12-18 |
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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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Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons | Self | 2012-10-09 |
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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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The Gruffalo's Child | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2011-12-25 |
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Discovering Hamlet | Ophelia (archive footage) | 2011-11-01 |
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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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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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Toast | Mrs Potter | 2010-12-30 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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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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Terminator Salvation | Serena | 2009-05-20 |
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The Gruffalo | Mother Squirrel (voice) | 2009-12-25 |
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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 | 2007-12-21 |
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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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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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Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride (voice) | 2005-09-12 |
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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 | 2003-12-04 |
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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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Novocaine | Susan | 2001-11-23 |
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Women Talking Dirty | Cora | 2001-12-07 |
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Planet of the Apes | Ari | 2001-07-26 |
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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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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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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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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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Brown Bear's Wedding | White Bear (voice) | 1991-12-25 |
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Where Angels Fear to Tread | Caroline Abbott | 1991-06-21 |
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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 |
