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