Helena Bonham Carter

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.

Known For

Fight Club Not in library

Fight Club

1999

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Not in library

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Not in library

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Not in library

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Not in library

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Not in library

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2005

Alice in Wonderland Not in library

Alice in Wonderland

2010

Corpse Bride Not in library

Corpse Bride

2005

The King's Speech Not in library

The King's Speech

2010

Ocean's Eight Not in library

Ocean's Eight

2018

Acting

2026 The Land of Sometimes as Mediocris (voice) In Library
2026 Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026 Agatha Christie's Seven Dials as Lady Caterham (3 episodes)
2025 Four Letters of Love as Margaret Gore
2025 Tim Burton: Life in the Line as Self (4 episodes)
2024 Merchant Ivory as Self
2024 Tim Burton: Life in the Line as Self
2024 Bluey Book Reads as Reader (1 episode)
2023 The Real Nolly as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023 The Velveteen Rabbit as Wise Horse (voice)
2023 imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
2023 Charles III: The Coronation Year as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023 One Life as Babi Winton
2023 Nolly as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon (3 episodes)
2022 Enola Holmes 2 as Eudoria Holmes
2022 Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
2022 The House as Jen (voice)
2022 Three Minutes: A Lengthening as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022 Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends as Self
2022 Wild Babies as Narrator (8 episodes)
2021 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
2021 Dragonheart: Vengeance as Siveth (voice)
2021 Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021 Eden: Untamed Planet as Self - Narrator (voice) (6 episodes)
2021 The Cleaner as Sheila (1 episode)
2020 Enola Holmes as Eudoria Holmes
2020 Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Lady Devilla
2020 Clown as Narrator (voice)
2020 The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson as reader
2020 The Magical World of Julia Donaldson as Self - Readings
2019 E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey as Self
2019 Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered as Self
2019 Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice as Narrator (voice)
2019 My Grandparents' War as Self (1 episode)
2019 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice) (4 episodes)
2018 Reimagining The Met Gala as Self
2018 Ocean's Team 3.0 as Self
2018 Ocean's Eight as Rose Weil
2018 Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero as Margaret Conroy (voice)
2018 55 Steps as Eleanor Riese
2017 Poles Apart as Nanuk
2017 Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self (1 episode)
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass as Iracebeth / Red Queen
2016 Wild Africa / Tiny Giants as Narrator (Wild Africa)
2016 Love, Nina as George (5 episodes)
2016 The Crown as Princess Margaret (20 episodes)
2015 Suffragette as Edith Ellyn
2015 Wild Africa as Narrator
2015 Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self (1 episode)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2014 Turks & Caicos as Margot Tyrell
2014 Salting the Battlefield as Margot Tyrell
2014 Riding a Train of Thoughts as Self
2014 Night Will Fall as Narrator (voice) In Library
2014 Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley as Self
2013 The Lone Ranger as Red Harrington
2013 The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Dr. Clair
2013 Burton and Taylor as Elizabeth Taylor
2013 Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self
2013 Pantoffelkino as Self - Interviewee (1 episode)
2012 Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman
2012 Les Misérables as Madame Thénardier
2012 Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
2012 The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres as Narrator
2012 The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat as Narrator
2012 Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons as Self
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Bellatrix Lestrange
2011 The Gruffalo's Child as Mother Squirrel (voice)
2011 Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)
2011 When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
2011 Life's Too Short as Helena Bonham Carter (1 episode)
2010 Alice in Wonderland as Iracebeth / Red Queen
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Bellatrix Lestrange
2010 Toast as Mrs Potter
2010 The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth
2010 Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice as Self
2010 Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter as Self
2010 Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland as Self
2009 Terminator Salvation as Serena
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Bellatrix Lestrange
2009 The Gruffalo as Mother Squirrel (voice)
2009 Enid as Enid Blyton
2009 Live from Studio Five as Self (1 episode)
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2008 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd as Self
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Bellatrix Lestrange
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (4 episodes)
2006 Sixty Six as Esther Rubens
2006 Conversations with Other Women as Woman
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Mrs. Bucket
2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
2005 Corpse Bride as Corpse Bride (voice)
2005 Magnificent 7 as Maggi Jackson
2004 The Heart of Me as Dinah
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
2003 Big Fish as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
2003 Celebrity Naked Ambition as Self (archive footage)
2003 Henry VIII as Anne Boleyn (2 episodes)
2002 Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
2002 Till Human Voices Wake Us as Ruby
2002 American Idol as Self (1 episode)
2001 Planet of the Apes as Ari
2001 Novocaine as Susan
2001 Women Talking Dirty as Cora
2001 Football as Mum
2001 The Kumars at No. 42
2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2000 Carnivale as Milly (voice)
2000 The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
1999 The Theory of Flight as Jane Hatchard
1999 Fight Club as Marla Singer
1998 The Revengers' Comedies as Karen Knightly
1998 So Graham Norton as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1998 Merlin as Morgan le Fay (2 episodes)
1998 The Entertainment Biz as Self (1 episode)
1997 The Wings of the Dove as Kate Croy
1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Rosemary
1997 The View as Self (2 episodes)
1996 Twelfth Night as Olivia
1996 Shadow Play as Ada
1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Vera Brittain (voice) (1 episode)
1995 Mighty Aphrodite as Amanda
1995 Margaret's Museum as Margaret MacNeil
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Elizabeth
1994 Butter as Dorothy
1994 Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994 A Dark Adapted Eye as Faith Severn (2 episodes)
1993 Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald as Marina Oswald
1993 Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen as Pandora / Julie
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1993 GMTV as Self (2 episodes)
1993 Rik Mayall Presents as Pandora / Julie (1 episode)
1993 Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1992 Howards End as Helen Schlegel
1992 White Bear's Secret as White Bear (voice)
1992 Absolutely Fabulous as Dream Saffron (1 episode)
1991 Where Angels Fear to Tread as Caroline Abbott
1991 Brown Bear's Wedding as White Bear (voice)
1990 Hamlet as Ophelia
1990 Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter as Beatrix Potter
1989 Francesco as Chiara
1989 Getting It Right as Minerva Munday
1989 Arms and the Man as Raina Petkoff
1988 The Mask as Iris
1987 A Hazard of Hearts as Serena Staverley
1987 Maurice as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
1987 The Vision as Jo Marriner
1986 Lady Jane as Lady Jane Grey
1986 A Room with a View as Lucy Honeychurch
1985 Screen Two as Jo Marriner (1 episode)
1984 Miami Vice as Dr. Theresa Lyons (2 episodes)
1983 A Pattern of Roses as Netty (The Past)
1953 The Oscars as Self (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Audience Member (uncredited) (1 episode)
The Offing as Dulcie Piper
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self
The Well of Saint Nobody as Tara
Not Bloody Likely as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Enola Holmes 3 as Eudoria Holmes
The Housekeeper as Adelaide
California Avenue as Eddie

Production

2018 55 Steps Executive Producer
California Avenue Executive Producer