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.
118 movies · 40 shows
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026·0.0
Enola Holmes 3
2026·6.9
The Land of Sometimes
2026·6.2
Four Letters of Love
2025·6.0
Merchant Ivory
2024·7.7
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024·0.0
Charles III: The Coronation Year
2023·7.0
One Life
2023·7.8
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023·10.0
The Velveteen Rabbit
2023·6.9
The Real Nolly
2023·0.0
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022·6.9
Enola Holmes 2
2022·7.4
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022·8.0
The House
2022·7.0
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022·7.3
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
2021·0.0
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021·4.5
Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021·6.9
Clown
2020·5.6
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020·10.0
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020·6.3
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020·6.0
Enola Holmes
2020·7.2
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019·9.0
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019·7.0
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019·8.1
Reimagining The Met Gala
2018·8.0
Ocean's Team 3.0
2018·8.0
Ocean's Eight
2018·7.0
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018·7.9
55 Steps
2018·6.7
Poles Apart
2017·8.7
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
2016·0.0
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016·6.6
Suffragette
2015·7.2
Cinderella
2015·6.8
Wild Africa
2015·8.0
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014·7.9
Night Will Fall
2014·7.6
Riding a Train of Thoughts
2014·7.0
Salting the Battlefield
2014·6.3
Turks & Caicos
2014·6.3
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013·6.9
Burton and Taylor
2013·6.2
The Lone Ranger
2013·6.1
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013·6.3
Les Misérables
2012·7.3
Great Expectations
2012·6.4
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012·7.3
Dark Shadows
2012·6.1
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
2012·10.0
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
2012·0.0
The Gruffalo's Child
2011·6.9
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011·7.2
Discovering Hamlet
2011·7.5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011·8.1
Toast
2010·6.6
The King's Speech
2010·7.7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
2010·7.6
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
2010·6.1
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
2010·6.9
Alice in Wonderland
2010·6.6
The Gruffalo
2009·7.4
Enid
2009·6.4
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009·7.7
Terminator Salvation
2009·6.1
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008·7.7
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007·7.2
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007·7.7
Sixty Six
2006·6.6
Conversations with Other Women
2006·6.3
Magnificent 7
2005·7.5
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005·7.1
Corpse Bride
2005·7.6
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005·7.0
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004·6.8
The Heart of Me
2004·6.0
Big Fish
2003·7.8
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003·5.0
Live from Baghdad
2002·6.7
Till Human Voices Wake Us
2002·5.3
Women Talking Dirty
2001·5.3
Novocaine
2001·6.0
Planet of the Apes
2001·5.8
Football
2001·8.7
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
2000·0.0
Carnivale
2000·6.1
Fight Club
1999·8.4
The Theory of Flight
1999·6.3
The Revengers' Comedies
1998·5.8
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997·6.1
The Wings of the Dove
1997·6.6
Twelfth Night
1996·7.0
Shadow Play
1996·7.3
Mighty Aphrodite
1995·6.7
Margaret's Museum
1995·6.5
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994·6.4
Butter
1994·8.7
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993·6.8
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993·6.3
White Bear's Secret
1992·0.0
Howards End
1992·7.0
Brown Bear's Wedding
1991·0.0
Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991·6.6
Hamlet
1990·6.6
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
1990·0.0
Getting It Right
1989·6.8
Arms and the Man
1989·9.5
Francesco
1989·6.6
The Mask
1988·6.7
A Hazard of Hearts
1987·7.8
The Vision
1987·10.0
Maurice
1987·7.6
A Room with a View
1986·7.0
Lady Jane
1986·6.9
A Pattern of Roses
1983·6.0