Helena Bonham Carter

Known for ActingBorn 1966-05-26 (age 60)Golders Green, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

Bluey Book Reads

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres

The Vision

Arms and the Man

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

Poles Apart

Football

Butter

Fight Club

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

The Crown

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Reimagining The Met Gala

Ocean's Team 3.0

Wild Africa

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Celebrity Naked Ambition

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

One Life

Merchant Ivory

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

A Dark Adapted Eye

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

The King's Speech

Wild Babies

Big Fish

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A Hazard of Hearts

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Night Will Fall

Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice

Corpse Bride

Enola Holmes 2

Discovering Hamlet

Eden: Untamed Planet

Magnificent 7

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

My Grandparents' War

Maurice

Absolutely Fabulous

The Gruffalo

Les Misérables