
Helena Bonham Carter
Born: 1966-05-26
Place of Birth: Golders Green, London, England, UK
Biography
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

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Four Letters of Love

Cinderella

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons

Corpse Bride

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Alice in Wonderland

Enola Holmes

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Enola Holmes 2

Ocean's Eight

Terminator Salvation

Les Misérables

The Heart of Me

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Big Fish

Dark Shadows

Planet of the Apes

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Enola Holmes 3

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

The King's Speech

Dragonheart: Vengeance

Great Expectations

The Lone Ranger

Suffragette

Magnificent 7

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

One Life

Francesco

The Gruffalo

Maurice

Mighty Aphrodite

Hamlet

Toast

Novocaine

The House

Lady Jane

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

The Mask

Merchant Ivory

A Room with a View

Butter

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Night Will Fall

Howards End

The Vision

Enid

The Velveteen Rabbit

Margaret's Museum

The Land of Sometimes

Poles Apart

Shadow Play

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Women Talking Dirty

The Gruffalo's Child

The Revengers' Comedies

A Therapy

Football

Clown

Carnivale

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

When Harry Left Hogwarts

Twelfth Night

55 Steps

Where Angels Fear to Tread

The Wings of the Dove

Turks & Caicos

Sixty Six

Conversations with Other Women

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Ocean's Team 3.0

Live from Baghdad

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

A Hazard of Hearts

Wild Africa

Burton and Taylor

Salting the Battlefield

Arms and the Man

Discovering Hamlet

A Pattern of Roses

Getting It Right

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Brown Bear's Wedding

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald

The Theory of Flight

Till Human Voices Wake Us

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland

White Bear's Secret

Charles III: The Coronation Year

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
