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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.
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Corpse Bride
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Fight Club
As Marla Singer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
As Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
As Bellatrix Lestrange
A Room with a View
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
As Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
As Bellatrix Lestrange
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
As Mrs. Bucket
Chains
KinoChain journeys
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The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
The Ghosts We Carry
A journey through stop-motion films that turn loss into art, from mainstream masterpieces to hidden gems.
8 films
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Enola Holmes 3
2026 · Eudoria Holmes
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025 · Self
One Life
2023 · Babi Winton
The Real Nolly
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Enola Holmes 2
2022 · Eudoria Holmes
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022 · Self
Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021 · Siveth (voice)
Enola Holmes
2020 · Eudoria Holmes
Ocean's Eight
2018 · Rose Weil
Suffragette
2015 · Edith Ellyn
Cinderella
2015 · Fairy Godmother
Night Will Fall
2014 · Narrator (voice)
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013 · Dr. Clair
The Lone Ranger
2013 · Red Harrington
Les Misérables
2012 · Madame Thénardier
Dark Shadows
2012 · Dr. Julia Hoffman
The Gruffalo's Child
2011 · Mother Squirrel (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Bellatrix Lestrange
The King's Speech
2010 · Queen Elizabeth
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Bellatrix Lestrange
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Iracebeth / Red Queen
The Gruffalo
2009 · Mother Squirrel (voice)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Bellatrix Lestrange
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Mrs. Lovett
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Bellatrix Lestrange
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005 · Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Corpse Bride
2005 · Corpse Bride (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Mrs. Bucket
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 · Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
Big Fish
2003 · Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Live from Baghdad
2002 · Ingrid Formanek
Planet of the Apes
2001 · Ari
Fight Club
1999 · Marla Singer
Merlin
1998 · Morgan le Fay
Twelfth Night
1996 · Olivia
Mighty Aphrodite
1995 · Amanda
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Elizabeth
Howards End
1992 · Helen Schlegel
The Mask
1988 · Iris
A Room with a View
1986 · Lucy Honeychurch