Helena Bonham Carter
Acting
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.
TV Shows(41)
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Lady Caterham
2026
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self
2025
Bluey Book Reads
Reader
2024
Nolly
Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
2023
Wild Babies
Narrator
2022
The Cleaner
Sheila
2021
Eden: Untamed Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
My Grandparents' War
Self
2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
2019
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self
2017
The Crown
Princess Margaret
2016
Love, Nina
George
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Pantoffelkino
Self - Interviewee
2013
Life's Too Short
Helena Bonham Carter
2011
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
2003
American Idol
Self
2002
The Kumars at No. 42
2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
2001
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
So Graham Norton
Self - Guest
1998
Merlin
Morgan le Fay
1998
The Entertainment Biz
Self
1998
The View
Self
1997
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Vera Brittain (voice)
1996
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
1994
A Dark Adapted Eye
Faith Severn
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Rik Mayall Presents
Pandora / Julie
1993
GMTV
Self
1993
Absolutely Fabulous
Dream Saffron
1992
Screen Two
Jo Marriner
1985
Miami Vice
Dr. Theresa Lyons
1984
The Oscars
Self
1953
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1944
California Avenue
Eddie
Movies(123)
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Self
2026
Enola Holmes 3
Eudoria Holmes
2026
The Land of Sometimes
Mediocris (voice)
2026
Four Letters of Love
Margaret Gore
2025
Merchant Ivory
Self
2024
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Self
2024
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
One Life
Babi Winton
2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Self
2023
The Velveteen Rabbit
Wise Horse (voice)
2023
The Real Nolly
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Enola Holmes 2
Eudoria Holmes
2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Self
2022
The House
Jen (voice)
2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
2022
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Siveth (voice)
2021
Clown
Narrator (voice)
2020
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
reader
2020
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Lady Devilla
2020
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Self - Readings
2020
Enola Holmes
Eudoria Holmes
2020
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Self
2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Self
2019
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Narrator (voice)
2019
Reimagining The Met Gala
Self
2018
Ocean's Team 3.0
Self
2018
Ocean's Eight
Rose Weil
2018
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Margaret Conroy (voice)
2018
55 Steps
Eleanor Riese
2018
Poles Apart
Nanuk
2017
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
Narrator (Wild Africa)
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Iracebeth / Red Queen
2016
Suffragette
Edith Ellyn
2015
Cinderella
Fairy Godmother
2015
Wild Africa
Narrator
2015
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
Self
2014
Night Will Fall
Narrator (voice)
2014
Riding a Train of Thoughts
Self
2014
Salting the Battlefield
Margot Tyrell
2014
Turks & Caicos
Margot Tyrell
2014
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Dr. Clair
2013
Burton and Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
2013
The Lone Ranger
Red Harrington
2013
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Self
2013
Les Misérables
Madame Thénardier
2012
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham
2012
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
Self
2012
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman
2012
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
Narrator
2012
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
Narrator
2012
The Gruffalo's Child
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2011
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
2011
Discovering Hamlet
Ophelia (archive footage)
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Bellatrix Lestrange
2011
Toast
Mrs Potter
2010
The King's Speech
Queen Elizabeth
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Bellatrix Lestrange
2010
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
Self
2010
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
Self
2010
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
Self
2010
Alice in Wonderland
Iracebeth / Red Queen
2010
The Gruffalo
Mother Squirrel (voice)
2009
Enid
Enid Blyton
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Bellatrix Lestrange
2009
Terminator Salvation
Serena
2009
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Self
2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mrs. Lovett
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Bellatrix Lestrange
2007
Sixty Six
Esther Rubens
2006
Conversations with Other Women
Woman
2006
Magnificent 7
Maggi Jackson
2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
2005
Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride (voice)
2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mrs. Bucket
2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
2004
The Heart of Me
Dinah
2004
Big Fish
Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
2003
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
2003
Live from Baghdad
Ingrid Formanek
2002
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Ruby
2002
Women Talking Dirty
Cora
2001
Novocaine
Susan
2001
Planet of the Apes
Ari
2001
Football
Mum
2001
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
Self
2000
Carnivale
Milly (voice)
2000
Fight Club
Marla Singer
1999
The Theory of Flight
Jane Hatchard
1999
The Revengers' Comedies
Karen Knightly
1998
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Rosemary
1997
The Wings of the Dove
Kate Croy
1997
Twelfth Night
Olivia
1996
Shadow Play
Ada
1996
Mighty Aphrodite
Amanda
1995
Margaret's Museum
Margaret MacNeil
1995
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Elizabeth
1994
Butter
Dorothy
1994
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina Oswald
1993
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
Pandora / Julie
1993
White Bear's Secret
White Bear (voice)
1992
Howards End
Helen Schlegel
1992
Brown Bear's Wedding
White Bear (voice)
1991
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Caroline Abbott
1991
Hamlet
Ophelia
1990
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
1990
Getting It Right
Minerva Munday
1989
Arms and the Man
Raina Petkoff
1989
Francesco
Chiara
1989
The Mask
Iris
1988
A Hazard of Hearts
Serena Staverley
1987
The Vision
Jo Marriner
1987
Maurice
Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
1987
A Room with a View
Lucy Honeychurch
1986
Lady Jane
Lady Jane Grey
1986
A Pattern of Roses
Netty (The Past)
1983
The Offing
Dulcie Piper
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Self
The Well of Saint Nobody
Tara
Not Bloody Likely
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The Housekeeper
Adelaide