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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Birthday: 1966-05-26 | Place of Birth: Golders Green, London, England, UK

Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born 26 May 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Les Misérables

as    Madame Thénardier

2022
Wild Babies

as    Narrator

2021
Eden: Untamed Planet

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2020
Enola Holmes

as    Eudoria Holmes

2020
Clown

as    Narrator (voice)

2020
Dragonheart: Vengeance

as    Siveth (voice)

2019
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

as    Narrator (voice)

2018
55 Steps

as    Eleanor Riese

2018
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

as    Margaret Conroy (voice)

2018
Ocean's Eight

as    Rose Weil

2016
Love, Nina

as    George

2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass

as    Red Queen

2015
Suffragette

as    Edith Ellyn

2015
Cinderella

as    Fairy Godmother

2014
2014
Turks & Caicos

as    Margot Tyrell

2014
Salting the Battlefield

as    Margot Tyrell

2014
Night Will Fall

as    Narrator (voice)

2013
Burton and Taylor

as    Elizabeth Taylor

2013
Great Expectations

as    Miss Havisham

2013
The Lone Ranger

as    Red Harrington

2012
Dark Shadows

as    Dr. Julia Hoffman

2012
A Therapy

as    Patient