Helena Bonham Carter

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

The Crown

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Graham Norton Show

Late Show with David Letterman

The View

Golden Globe Awards

Miami Vice

All Movies (124)

• Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World2026 · as Self
• Enola Holmes 32026 · as Eudoria Holmes
• The Land of Sometimes2026 · as Mediocris (voice)
• Four Letters of Love2025 · as Margaret Gore
• Merchant Ivory2024 · as Self
• Tim Burton: Life in the Line2024 · as Self
• Charles III: The Coronation Year2023 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• One Life2023 · as Babi Winton
• imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me2023 · as Self
• The Velveteen Rabbit2023 · as Wise Horse (voice)
• The Real Nolly2023 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening2022 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Enola Holmes 22022 · as Eudoria Holmes
• Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends2022 · as Self
• The House2022 · as Jen (voice)
• Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts2022 · as Self
• Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser2021 · as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dragonheart: Vengeance2021 · as Siveth (voice)
• Clown2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson2020 · as reader
• Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas2020 · as Lady Devilla
• The Magical World of Julia Donaldson2020 · as Self - Readings
• Enola Holmes2020 · as Eudoria Holmes
• Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered2019 · as Self
• E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey2019 · as Self
• Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• Reimagining The Met Gala2018 · as Self
• Ocean's Team 3.02018 · as Self
• Ocean's Eight2018 · as Rose Weil
• Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero2018 · as Margaret Conroy (voice)
• 55 Steps2018 · as Eleanor Riese
• Poles Apart2017 · as Nanuk
• Wild Africa / Tiny Giants2016 · as Narrator (Wild Africa)
• Alice Through the Looking Glass2016 · as Iracebeth / Red Queen
• Suffragette2015 · as Edith Ellyn
• Cinderella2015 · as Fairy Godmother
• Wild Africa2015 · as Narrator
• Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley2014 · as Self
• Night Will Fall2014 · as Narrator (voice)
• Riding a Train of Thoughts2014 · as Self
• Salting the Battlefield2014 · as Margot Tyrell
• Turks & Caicos2014 · as Margot Tyrell
• The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet2013 · as Dr. Clair
• Burton and Taylor2013 · as Elizabeth Taylor
• The Lone Ranger2013 · as Red Harrington
• Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck2013 · as Self
• Les Misérables2012 · as Madame Thénardier
• Great Expectations2012 · as Miss Havisham
• Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons2012 · as Self
• A Therapy2012 · as Patient
• Dark Shadows2012 · as Dr. Julia Hoffman
• The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres2012 · as Narrator
• The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat2012 · as Narrator
• The Gruffalo's Child2011 · as Mother Squirrel (voice)
• When Harry Left Hogwarts2011 · as Self
• Discovering Hamlet2011 · as Ophelia (archive footage)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 22011 · as Bellatrix Lestrange
• Toast2010 · as Mrs Potter
• The King's Speech2010 · as Queen Elizabeth
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 12010 · as Bellatrix Lestrange
• Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice2010 · as Self
• Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter2010 · as Self
• Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland2010 · as Self
• Alice in Wonderland2010 · as Iracebeth / Red Queen
• The Gruffalo2009 · as Mother Squirrel (voice)
• Enid2009 · as Enid Blyton
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince2009 · as Bellatrix Lestrange
• Terminator Salvation2009 · as Serena
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd2008 · as Self
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street2007 · as Mrs. Lovett
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix2007 · as Bellatrix Lestrange
• Sixty Six2006 · as Esther Rubens
• Conversations with Other Women2006 · as Woman
• Magnificent 72005 · as Maggi Jackson
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit2005 · as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
• Corpse Bride2005 · as Corpse Bride (voice)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory2005 · as Mrs. Bucket
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events2004 · as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
• The Heart of Me2004 · as Dinah
• Big Fish2003 · as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
• Celebrity Naked Ambition2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Live from Baghdad2002 · as Ingrid Formanek
• Till Human Voices Wake Us2002 · as Ruby
• Women Talking Dirty2001 · as Cora
• Novocaine2001 · as Susan
• Planet of the Apes2001 · as Ari
• Football2001 · as Mum
• Fight Club: Behind the Scenes2000 · as Self
• Carnivale2000 · as Milly (voice)
• Fight Club1999 · as Marla Singer
• The Theory of Flight1999 · as Jane Hatchard
• The Revengers' Comedies1998 · as Karen Knightly
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying1997 · as Rosemary
• The Wings of the Dove1997 · as Kate Croy
• Twelfth Night1996 · as Olivia
• Shadow Play1996 · as Ada
• Mighty Aphrodite1995 · as Amanda
• Margaret's Museum1995 · as Margaret MacNeil
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein1994 · as Elizabeth
• Butter1994 · as Dorothy
• Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald1993 · as Marina Oswald
• Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen1993 · as Pandora / Julie
• White Bear's Secret1992 · as White Bear (voice)
• Howards End1992 · as Helen Schlegel
• Brown Bear's Wedding1991 · as White Bear (voice)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread1991 · as Caroline Abbott
• Hamlet1990 · as Ophelia
• Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter1990 · as Beatrix Potter
• Getting It Right1989 · as Minerva Munday
• Arms and the Man1989 · as Raina Petkoff
• Francesco1989 · as Chiara
• The Mask1988 · as Iris
• A Hazard of Hearts1987 · as Serena Staverley
• The Vision1987 · as Jo Marriner
• Maurice1987 · as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
• A Room with a View1986 · as Lucy Honeychurch
• Lady Jane1986 · as Lady Jane Grey
• A Pattern of Roses1983 · as Netty (The Past)
• 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
• The Housekeeper— · as Adelaide

All TV Shows (41)

• Agatha Christie's Seven Dials2026 · as Lady Caterham
• Tim Burton: Life in the Line2025 · as Self
• Bluey Book Reads2024 · as Reader
• Nolly2023 · as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
• Wild Babies2022 · as Narrator
• The Cleaner2021 · as Sheila
• Eden: Untamed Planet2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• My Grandparents' War2019 · as Self
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance2019 · as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
• Tate Britain's Great Art Walks2017 · as Self
• The Crown2016 · as Princess Margaret
• Love, Nina2016 · as George
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Pantoffelkino2013 · as Self - Interviewee
• Life's Too Short2011 · as Helena Bonham Carter
• Live from Studio Five2009 · as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• Henry VIII2003 · as Anne Boleyn
• American Idol2002 · as Self
• The Kumars at No. 422001
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self - Guest
• The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything2000
• So Graham Norton1998 · as Self - Guest
• Merlin1998 · as Morgan le Fay
• The Entertainment Biz1998 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century1996 · as Vera Brittain (voice)
• Jo Brand Through the Cakehole1994
• A Dark Adapted Eye1994 · as Faith Severn
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman1993 · as Self - Guest
• Rik Mayall Presents1993 · as Pandora / Julie
• GMTV1993 · as Self
• Absolutely Fabulous1992 · as Dream Saffron
• Screen Two1985 · as Jo Marriner
• Miami Vice1984 · as Dr. Theresa Lyons
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• California Avenue— · as Eddie