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