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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Highest Rated: 100% A Room With a View (1986)

Lowest Rated: 25% Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

Birthday: May 26, 1966

Birthplace: London, England, UK

Helena Bonham Carter was born in London, descending from a British political family. While she never studied acting anywhere, she had a knack for performance and made her debut as a professional actress as a teenager in commercials and bit parts. Her first main roles were "A Room with a View" (1985) and "Lady Jane" (1986). She also appeared in a few episodes of "Miami Vice" (NBC 1984-1990). She played Ophelia in the Mel Gibson-starring "Hamlet" (1990) and then followed that up with roles in "Howards End" (1992) and "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994). The latter of which is where she met Kenneth Branagh, who she would date for the rest of the decade. She earned her first major award nominations with her performance in "The Wings of the Dove" (1997), which was the start of her gaining more notoriety internationally. Bonham Carter also had a notable turn in David Fincher's "Fight Club" (1999). In 2001, she began to date Tim Burton after working with him in "Planet of the Apes" (2001). That led to a wealth of projects that the two worked on together, including "Big Fish" (2003), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), "Corpse Bride" (2005), and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007). Starting with "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007), Bonham Carter portrayed noted Potter villain Bellatrix Lestrange for the final four films of the series. In the midst of her wizarding time, she also co-starred in the Best Picture winner "The King's Speech" (2010), earning another Oscar nomination in the process. A few years later, she portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in the acclaimed "Burton & Tayler" (BBC 2013). Bonham Carter in the 2010s involved her beginning to not work with Burton as often, as the pair split in 2014. She played the Fairy Godmother in the live-action Disney remake "Cinderella" (2015) and starred in the female-centric heist caper "Ocean's 8" (2018). 2019 was the start of Bonham Carter being a regular on Netflix shows, including a voiceover role in "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" (Netflix 2019) and taking over the role of Princess Margaret in "The Crown" (Netflix 2016- ).

Highest rated movies

100% 60% Burton and Taylor
100% 85% A Room With a View
96% 89% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 94% 92% The King's Speech 94% 81% Howards End 93% 79% Enola Holmes 2 91% 71% Enola Holmes 90% 94% One Life

Filmography

Movies

Credit
94% No Score Yet Merchant Ivory Self - 2023
90% 94% One Life Babette Winton (Character) $5.7M 2023
100% 85% The Velveteen Rabbit Wise Horse (Voice) - 2023
93% 79% Enola Holmes 2 Eudoria Holmes (Character) - 2022
93% 86% Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts Self - 2022
100% 84% Three Minutes - A Lengthening Narrator $87.4K 2021
91% 71% Enola Holmes Mrs. Holmes (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet 54% Dragonheart: Vengeance Siveth (Voice) - 2020
68% 47% Ocean's 8 Rose Weil (Character) $139.4M 2018
89% 92% Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero Margaret Conroy (Voice) $3.1M 2018
50% 84% 55 Steps Eleanor Riese (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2017
29% 48% Alice Through the Looking Glass Red Queen (Character) $77.0M 2016
73% 68% Suffragette Edith Ellyn (Character) $4.7M 2015
84% 78% Cinderella Fairy Godmother (Character) $201.2M 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cindrella Unknown (Character) - 2015
100% 93% Night Will Fall Narrator - 2014
No Score Yet 56% Turks & Caicos Margot Tyrrell (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 50% Salting the Battlefield Margot Tyrrell (Character) - 2014
78% 70% The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Dr Clair (Character) $176.1K 2013
100% 60% Burton and Taylor Elizabeth Taylor (Character) - 2013
31% 51% The Lone Ranger Red (Character) $89.3M 2013
69% 50% Great Expectations Miss Havisham (Character) $203.9K 2012
70% 79% Les Misérables Madame Thénardier (Character) $149.2M 2012
35% 46% Dark Shadows Dr. Julia Hoffman (Character) $79.7M 2012
No Score Yet 68% The Gruffalo's Child Unknown (Character) - 2012
96% 89% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Bellatrix Lestrange (Character) $381.0M 2011
No Score Yet 79% King George VI: The Man Behind The King's Speech Unknown (Character) - 2011
63% 52% Toast Mrs Potter (Character) - 2010
94% 92% The King's Speech Queen Elizabeth (Character) $138.8M 2010
51% 55% Alice in Wonderland The Red Queen (Character) $334.2M 2010
77% 85% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Bellatrix Lestrange (Character) $295.0M 2010
No Score Yet 79% The Gruffalo Mother Squirrel (Voice) - 2009
84% 78% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Bellatrix Lestrange (Character) $302.0M 2009
33% 53% Terminator Salvation Dr. Serena Kogen (Character) $125.3M 2009
No Score Yet 54% Enid Enid Blyton (Character) - 2009
86% 81% Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mrs. Lovett (Character) $52.9M 2007
78% 81% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Bellatrix Lestrange (Character) $292.0M 2007
65% 66% Sixty Six Esther (Character) $224.5K 2006
No Score Yet 71% Magnificent 7 Maggi (Character) - 2005
74% 76% Conversations With Other Women Woman (Character) $379.1K 2005
95% 79% Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Lady Campanula Tottington (Voice) $56.0M 2005
84% 77% Tim Burton's Corpse Bride The Corpse Bride (Voice) $53.4M 2005
83% 51% Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mrs. Bucket (Character) $206.5M 2005
No Score Yet 76% Henry VIII Anne Boleyn (Character) - 2003
76% 89% Big Fish Jenny/The Witch (Character) $66.3M 2003
78% 84% Live From Baghdad Ingrid Formaneck (Character) - 2002
50% 61% The Heart of Me Dinah (Character) $196.1K 2002
25% 65% Till Human Voices Wake Us Ruby (Character) $120.1K 2002
38% 37% Novocaine Susan (Character) $2.0M 2001
43% 27% Planet of the Apes Ari (Character) $180.0M 2001
No Score Yet 79% Women Talking Dirty Unknown (Character) - 1999
80% 96% Fight Club Marla Singer (Character) $37.0M 1999
No Score Yet 78% Carnivale Milly (Voice) - 1999
No Score Yet 59% The Revengers' Comedies Karen Knightly (Character) - 1998
50% 56% The Theory of Flight Jane Hatchard (Character) $72.0K 1998
69% 61% A Merry War Rosemary (Character) $312.3K 1997
86% 78% The Wings of the Dove Kate Croy (Character) $13.7M 1997
76% 80% Twelfth Night Olivia (Character) $551.5K 1996
69% 33% Portraits Chinois Ada (Character) $16.4K 1996
67% 79% Margaret's Museum Margaret MacNeil (Character) $79.2K 1995
78% 73% Mighty Aphrodite Amanda (Character) $4.8M 1995
42% 49% Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Elizabeth (Character) $22.0M 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Butter Dorothy (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Dark Adapted Eye Faith Severn (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald Marina Oswald (Character) - 1993
94% 81% Howards End Helen Schlegel (Character) $157.9K 1992
64% 52% Where Angels Fear to Tread Caroline Abbott (Character) $1.4M 1991
76% 59% Hamlet Ophelia (Character) $18.2M 1990
71% 74% Getting It Right Lady Minerva Munday (Character) $73.2K 1989
No Score Yet 43% Francesco Chiara (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet La Maschera Iris (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Vision Jo Marriner (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 60% A Hazard of Hearts Serena Staverley (Character) - 1987
100% 85% A Room With a View Lucy Honeychurch (Character) $12.0M 1986
56% 76% Lady Jane Lady Jane Grey (Character) $132.0K 1986

TV

Credit
100% 80% Nolly Noele Gordon (Character) 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2012 2018-2020 2023
90% 92% The Cleaner Sheila (Character) 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eden: Untamed Planet Narrator 2021
81% 92% The Crown Princess Margaret (Character) 2019-2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Guest 2020
100% No Score Yet My Grandparents' War Guest 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2019
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2019
No Score Yet 12% The View Guest 2019
89% 94% The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance All-Maudra (Voice) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love, Nina George (Character) 2016
53% 78% Life's Too Short Herself (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 2004
71% 88% Miami Vice Dr. Theresa Lyons (Guest Star) 1987