Helena Bonham Carter

ActorProducer May 26 (age 59) Golders Green, London, England, UK 1983–2026 (43 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Fight Club

Marla Singer

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Bellatrix Lestrange

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Bellatrix Lestrange

Film

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Bellatrix Lestrange

Film

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Bellatrix Lestrange

Film

The King's Speech

Queen Elizabeth

Film

Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride (voice)

Film

Big Fish

Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch

Filmography

Acting (165)

Movies (124)

The Land of Sometimes

2026

as Mediocris (voice)

The Housekeeper

2026 Upcoming

as Adelaide

Oct 15

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

2026

Four Letters of Love

2025

as Margaret Gore

6.2

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

2024

as Self

Merchant Ivory

2024

as Self

7.7

The Velveteen Rabbit

2023

as Wise Horse (voice)

One Life

as Babi Winton

The Real Nolly

as Self - Narrator (voice)

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

2023

as Self

10.0

Charles III: The Coronation Year

2023

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.0

Enola Holmes 2

2022

as Eudoria Holmes

7.3

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

as Self

The House

as Jen (voice)

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

2022

as Self

8.0

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

2022

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.2

Dragonheart: Vengeance

2021

as Siveth (voice)

6.8

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

2021

as Self (archive footage)

4.5

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

2021

as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)

Enola Holmes

as Eudoria Holmes

Clown

as Narrator (voice)

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

2020

as Lady Devilla

6.3

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

2020

as reader

10.0

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

2020

as Self - Readings

6.0

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

2019

as Narrator (voice)

8.1

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

2019

as Self

9.0

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey

as Self

Ocean's Eight

as Rose Weil

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

2018

as Margaret Conroy (voice)

55 Steps

as Eleanor Riese

Ocean's Team 3.0

as Self

Reimagining The Met Gala

as Self

Poles Apart

as Nanuk

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

as Iracebeth / Red Queen

6.6

Wild Africa / Tiny Giants

2016

as Narrator (Wild Africa)

Cinderella

as Fairy Godmother

Suffragette

as Edith Ellyn

Wild Africa

as Narrator

Night Will Fall

as Narrator (voice)

Salting the Battlefield

as Margot Tyrell

Turks & Caicos

as Margot Tyrell

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

2014

as Self

7.0

Riding a Train of Thoughts

as Self

The Lone Ranger

as Red Harrington

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

as Dr. Clair

Burton and Taylor

as Elizabeth Taylor

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck

2013

as Self

6.1

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons

as Self

Les Misérables

as Madame Thénardier

Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman

The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat

2012

as Narrator

Great Expectations

as Miss Havisham

A Therapy

as Patient

A Therapy

as Patient

The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres

2012

as Narrator

10.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011

as Bellatrix Lestrange

8.1

The Gruffalo's Child

2011

as Mother Squirrel (voice)

6.9

When Harry Left Hogwarts

2011

as Self

7.0

Discovering Hamlet

2011

as Ophelia (archive footage)

7.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Bellatrix Lestrange

7.7

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Iracebeth / Red Queen

6.6

The King's Speech

2010

as Queen Elizabeth

7.7

Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice

as Self

Toast

as Mrs Potter

Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter

2010

as Self

5.5

Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland

2010

as Self

6.6

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009

as Bellatrix Lestrange

Terminator Salvation

as Serena

The Gruffalo

as Mother Squirrel (voice)

7.3

Enid

2009

as Enid Blyton

6.4

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

2008

as Self

7.7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

as Bellatrix Lestrange

7.7

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007

as Mrs. Lovett

7.2

Conversations with Other Women

as Woman

Sixty Six

as Esther Rubens

Corpse Bride

as Corpse Bride (voice)

7.6

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2005

as Mrs. Bucket

7.0

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005

as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)

Magnificent 7

as Maggi Jackson

The Heart of Me

as Dinah

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004

as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)

6.8

Big Fish

2003

as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch

7.8

Celebrity Naked Ambition

2003

as Self (archive footage)

Live from Baghdad

2002

as Ingrid Formanek

6.7

Till Human Voices Wake Us

as Ruby

Planet of the Apes

as Ari

Novocaine

as Susan

Football

as Mum

Women Talking Dirty

as Cora

Carnivale

as Milly (voice)

Fight Club

as Marla Singer

The Theory of Flight

as Jane Hatchard

The Revengers' Comedies

1998

as Karen Knightly

5.6

The Wings of the Dove

1997

as Kate Croy

6.6

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

as Rosemary

Shadow Play

as Ada

Twelfth Night

as Olivia

Margaret's Museum

as Margaret MacNeil

Mighty Aphrodite

as Amanda

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Elizabeth

Butter

as Dorothy

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald

1993

as Marina Oswald

6.2

Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen

as Pandora / Julie

Howards End

as Helen Schlegel

White Bear's Secret

as White Bear (voice)

Brown Bear's Wedding

1991

as White Bear (voice)

Where Angels Fear to Tread

as Caroline Abbott

Hamlet

as Ophelia

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990

as Beatrix Potter

Francesco

as Chiara

Arms and the Man

as Raina Petkoff

Getting It Right

as Minerva Munday

The Mask

as Iris

Maurice

as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)

The Vision

as Jo Marriner

A Hazard of Hearts

as Serena Staverley

A Room with a View

as Lucy Honeychurch

Lady Jane

as Lady Jane Grey

A Pattern of Roses

as Netty (The Past)

Not Bloody Likely

as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Enola Holmes 3

as Eudoria Holmes

The Offing

as Dulcie Piper

The Well of Saint Nobody

as Tara

James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty

as Self

Television (41)

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials

2026

as Lady Caterham

6.3

Tim Burton: Life in the Line

2025

as Self

Bluey Book Reads

2024

as Reader

10.0

Nolly

2023

as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon

Wild Babies

as Narrator

The Cleaner

as Sheila

Eden: Untamed Planet

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.4

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019

as All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)

7.8

My Grandparents' War

2019

as Self

7.3

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

2017

as Self

The Crown

as Princess Margaret

Love, Nina

as George

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.2

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015

as Self

6.2

Pantoffelkino

2013

as Self - Interviewee

Life's Too Short

2011

as Helena Bonham Carter

7.2

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.1

Live from Studio Five

2009

as Self

3.7

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Henry VIII

as Anne Boleyn

American Idol

as Self

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self - Guest

The Kumars at No. 42

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

Merlin

as Morgan le Fay

So Graham Norton

as Self - Guest

The Entertainment Biz

1998

as Self

The View

1997

as Self

4.3

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

1996

as Vera Brittain (voice)

8.2

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole

1994

A Dark Adapted Eye

1994

as Faith Severn

6.0

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

as Self - Guest

6.4

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

GMTV

as Self

Rik Mayall Presents

as Pandora / Julie

Absolutely Fabulous

as Dream Saffron

Screen Two

as Jo Marriner

Miami Vice

as Dr. Theresa Lyons

The Oscars

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

7.2

California Avenue

as Eddie

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

55 Steps

2018

Executive Producer

6.7

Television (1)

California Avenue

Executive Producer