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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Enola Holmes 3 | Eudoria Holmes | 2026-07-01 |
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The Land of Sometimes | Mediocris (voice) | 2026-03-20 |
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | Self | 2026-07-03 |
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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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One Life | Babi Winton | 2023-12-21 |
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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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The Velveteen Rabbit | Wise Horse (voice) | 2023-11-21 |
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2022-12-02 |
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Enola Holmes 2 | Eudoria Holmes | 2022-11-04 |
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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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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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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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Enola Holmes | Eudoria Holmes | 2020-09-23 |
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson | Self - Readings | 2020-12-23 |
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Clown | Narrator (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
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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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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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Reimagining The Met Gala | Self | 2018-09-11 |
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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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Ocean's Eight | Rose Weil | 2018-06-07 |
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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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Wild Africa / Tiny Giants | Narrator (Wild Africa) | 2016-11-29 |
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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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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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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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Salting the Battlefield | Margot Tyrell | 2014-03-27 |
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Dr. Clair | 2013-10-16 |
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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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Burton and Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor | 2013-07-22 |
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The Lone Ranger | Red Harrington | 2013-07-03 |
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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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The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres | Narrator | 2012-04-30 |
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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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Great Expectations | Miss Havisham | 2012-11-30 |
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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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The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth | 2010-11-26 |
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Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland | 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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Toast | Mrs Potter | 2010-12-30 |
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Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice | Self | 2010-06-01 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Iracebeth / Red Queen | 2010-03-03 |
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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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Enid | Enid Blyton | 2009-11-16 |
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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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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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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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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 | 2003-12-10 |
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Celebrity Naked Ambition | Self (archive footage) | 2003-07-19 |
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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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Football | Mum | 2001-01-01 |
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Planet of the Apes | Ari | 2001-07-26 |
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Women Talking Dirty | Cora | 2001-12-07 |
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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: Behind the Scenes | Self | 2000-06-06 |
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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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Twelfth Night | Olivia | 1996-10-25 |
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Portraits chinois | Ada | 1996-09-12 |
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Margaret's Museum | Margaret MacNeil | 1995-09-13 |
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Mighty Aphrodite | Amanda | 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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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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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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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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Francesco | Chiara | 1989-03-22 |
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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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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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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty | Self | |
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The Offing | Dulcie Piper | |
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The Well of Saint Nobody | Tara | |
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Not Bloody Likely | Mrs. Patrick Campbell | |
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The Housekeeper | Adelaide |
