
Helena Bonham Carter
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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 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.
Known For

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Golden Globe Awards

GMTV

Miami Vice

American Idol

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

The Cleaner

The Kumars at No. 42

Creating the World of Harry Potter

Maurice

The Oscars

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Crown

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Enola Holmes 2

Merlin

Cinderella

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

One Life

Absolutely Fabulous

Les Misérables

Ocean's Eight

Hamlet

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Big Fish

The Lone Ranger

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons

Dragonheart: Vengeance

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

Alice in Wonderland

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Enola Holmes

The Vision

Terminator Salvation

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Planet of the Apes

Enola Holmes 3

Fight Club

Dark Shadows

The King's Speech

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Suffragette

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Love, Nina

Howards End

Burton and Taylor

California Avenue

The Revengers' Comedies

A Dark Adapted Eye

Corpse Bride

The Seven Dials Mystery

Novocaine

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Eden: Untamed Planet

Arms and the Man

Enid

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

Magnificent 7

Wild Babies

The Gruffalo

A Room with a View

Charles III: The Coronation Year

The Heart of Me
Production Credits
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