Helena Bonham Carter

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1966-05-26 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Golders Green, London, England, UK

Helena Bonham Carter

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 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 uncomf...

Acting

2005

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)

2003

Big Fish

as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch

1998

The Revengers' Comedies

as Karen Knightly

2009

1990

Hamlet

as Ophelia

2005

Corpse Bride

as Corpse Bride (voice)

2022

Enola Holmes 2

as Eudoria Holmes

1986

Lady Jane

as Lady Jane Grey

2001

Novocaine

as Susan

1986

A Room with a View

as Lucy Honeychurch

2006

Sixty Six

as Esther Rubens

1995

1992

Howards End

as Helen Schlegel

2004

2010

Alice in Wonderland

as Iracebeth / Red Queen

2023

The Real Nolly

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2009

The Gruffalo

as Mother Squirrel (voice)

2002

Live from Baghdad

as Ingrid Formanek

2009

Enid

as Enid Blyton

1996

Twelfth Night

as Olivia

2012

Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman

1997

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The Offing

as Dulcie Piper

1987

A Hazard of Hearts

as Serena Staverley

2022

The House

as Jen (voice)

2010

Toast

as Mrs Potter

1995

Margaret's Museum

as Margaret MacNeil

2011

The Gruffalo's Child

as Mother Squirrel (voice)

2012

Les Misérables

as Madame Thénardier

1989

Francesco

as Chiara

2013

The Lone Ranger

as Red Harrington

1999

The Theory of Flight

as Jane Hatchard

1991

Where Angels Fear to Tread

as Caroline Abbott

1989

Getting It Right

as Minerva Munday

1989

Arms and the Man

as Raina Petkoff

2012

Great Expectations

as Miss Havisham

2022

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2024

1988

The Mask

as Iris

2012

A Therapy

as Patient

2000

Carnivale

as Milly (voice)

2013

Burton and Taylor

as Elizabeth Taylor

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Ophelia (archive footage)

2021

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Suffragette

as Edith Ellyn

2023

The Velveteen Rabbit

as Wise Horse (voice)

2010

The King's Speech

as Queen Elizabeth

2014

Turks & Caicos

as Margot Tyrell

2014

Salting the Battlefield

as Margot Tyrell

2023

One Life

as Babi Winton

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Iracebeth / Red Queen

1999

Fight Club

as Marla Singer

2014

Night Will Fall

as Narrator (voice)

2018

1996

2005

Magnificent 7

as Maggi Jackson

2025

Four Letters of Love

as Margaret Gore

2018

Ocean's Eight

as Rose Weil

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

as Ophelia (archive footage)

1983

A Pattern of Roses

as Netty (The Past)

2018

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

as Margaret Conroy (voice)

2018

55 Steps

as Eleanor Riese

1987

Maurice

as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)

-

The Land of Sometimes

as Little Twink (voice)

2017

Poles Apart

as Nanuk

1987

The Vision

as Jo Marriner

2015

Wild Africa

as Narrator

1994

Butter

as Dorothy

2001

Football

as Mum

2020

Enola Holmes

as Eudoria Holmes

2019

1991

Brown Bear's Wedding

as White Bear (voice)

1992

White Bear's Secret

as White Bear (voice)

2004

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)

2021

Dragonheart: Vengeance

as Siveth (voice)

2020

Clown

as Narrator (voice)

-

Not Bloody Likely

as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

2015

Cinderella

as Fairy Godmother

-

Enola Holmes 3

as Eudoria Holmes

Production

2018

55 Steps

as Executive Producer

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