Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
- 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
Filmography
Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Enola Holmes 3
The Land of Sometimes
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Four Letters of Love
Merchant Ivory
Bluey Book Reads
Charles III: The Coronation Year
One Life
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Real Nolly
Nolly
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Enola Holmes 2
Wild Babies
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
The House
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
The Cleaner
Eden: Untamed Planet
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Clown
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Enola Holmes
My Grandparents' War
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Reimagining The Met Gala
Ocean's Team 3.0
Ocean's Eight
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
55 Steps
Poles Apart
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
The Crown
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Love, Nina
Suffragette
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Cinderella
Wild Africa
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Night Will Fall
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Salting the Battlefield
Turks & Caicos
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Burton and Taylor
The Lone Ranger
Pantoffelkino
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Les Misérables
Great Expectations
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Dark Shadows
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
The Gruffalo's Child
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Life's Too Short
Discovering Hamlet
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Toast
The King's Speech
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
The Gruffalo
Enid
Live from Studio Five
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Terminator Salvation
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Graham Norton Show
Sixty Six
Conversations with Other Women
Magnificent 7
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Heart of Me
Big Fish
Henry VIII
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Live from Baghdad
Till Human Voices Wake Us
American Idol
Women Talking Dirty
Novocaine
The Kumars at No. 42
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Planet of the Apes
Football
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
Carnivale
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Fight Club
The Theory of Flight
So Graham Norton
The Revengers' Comedies
Merlin
The Entertainment Biz
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Wings of the Dove
The View
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Twelfth Night
Shadow Play
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
Mighty Aphrodite
Margaret's Museum
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
A Dark Adapted Eye
Butter
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Rik Mayall Presents
GMTV
Absolutely Fabulous
White Bear's Secret
Howards End
Brown Bear's Wedding
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Hamlet
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Getting It Right
Arms and the Man
Francesco
The Mask
Comic Relief
A Hazard of Hearts
The Vision
Maurice
A Room with a View
Lady Jane
Theatre Night
Screen Two
Miami Vice
A Pattern of Roses
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The Offing
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
The Well of Saint Nobody
The Housekeeper
California Avenue