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Helena Bonham Carter
Golders Green, London, England, UK
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 va…
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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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2027
Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
Movie (voice)
- 2026
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2026
Enola Holmes 3
Movie Eudoria Holmes
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2026
The Land of Sometimes
Movie Mediocris (voice)
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2026
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
TV show Lady Caterham
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2025
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
TV show Self
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2025
Four Letters of Love
Movie Margaret Gore
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2024
Merchant Ivory
Movie Self
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2024
Bluey Book Reads
TV show Reader
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2023
Charles III: The Coronation Year
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
One Life
Movie Babi Winton
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2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Movie Self
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2023
The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie Wise Horse (voice)
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2023
Nolly
TV show Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
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2023
The Real Nolly
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2022
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2022
Enola Holmes 2
Movie Eudoria Holmes
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2022
Wild Babies
TV show Narrator
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2022
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
Movie Self
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2022
The House
Movie Jen (voice)
- 2022
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2021
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
Movie Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2021
The Cleaner
TV show Sheila
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2021
Eden: Untamed Planet
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Dragonheart: Vengeance
Movie Siveth (voice)
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2020
Clown
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2020
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
Movie reader
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2020
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Movie Lady Devilla
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2020
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Movie Self - Readings
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2020
Enola Holmes
Movie Eudoria Holmes
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2019
My Grandparents' War
TV show Self
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2019
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Movie Self
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2019
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Movie Self
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2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TV show All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
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2019
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Ocean's Team 3.0
Movie Self
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2018
Reimagining The Met Gala
Movie Self
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2018
Ocean's Eight
Movie Rose Weil
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2018
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Movie Margaret Conroy (voice)
