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Helena Bonham Carter
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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 …
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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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Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
as (voice)
Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond
as Readings
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
as Self
Enola Holmes 3
as Eudoria Holmes
The Land of Sometimes
as Mediocris (voice)
Four Letters of Love
as Margaret Gore
Merchant Ivory
as Self
Charles III: The Coronation Year
as Self - Narrator (voice)
One Life
as Babi Winton
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
as Self
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Wise Horse (voice)
The Real Nolly
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Enola Holmes 2
as Eudoria Holmes
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
as Self
The House
as Jen (voice)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Self
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
as Red Queen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
as Siveth (voice)
Clown
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
as reader
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
as Lady Devilla
No Poster
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
as Self - Readings
Enola Holmes
as Eudoria Holmes
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
as Self
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
as Self
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
as Narrator (voice)
Ocean's Team 3.0
as Self
No Poster
Reimagining The Met Gala
as Self
Ocean's Eight
as Rose Weil
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
55 Steps
as Eleanor Riese
Poles Apart
as Nanuk (voice)
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants
as Narrator (Wild Africa)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Suffragette
as Edith Ellyn
Cinderella
as Fairy Godmother
Wild Africa
as Narrator
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
as Self
Night Will Fall
as Narrator (voice)
Riding a Train of Thoughts
as Self
Salting the Battlefield
as Margot Tyrell
Turks & Caicos
as Margot Tyrell
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Dr. Clair
Burton and Taylor
as Elizabeth Taylor
The Lone Ranger
as Red Harrington
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
as Self
Les Misérables
as Madame Thénardier
Great Expectations
as Miss Havisham
Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
as Self
Dark Shadows
as Dr. Julia Hoffman
No Poster
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
as Narrator
No Poster
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
as Narrator
The Gruffalo's Child
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
Discovering Hamlet
as Ophelia (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Toast
as Mrs Potter
The King's Speech
as Queen Elizabeth
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Bellatrix Lestrange
No Poster
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
as Self
Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
as Self
No Poster
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
as Self
Alice in Wonderland
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
The Gruffalo
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
Enid
as Enid Blyton
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Terminator Salvation
as Serena
No Poster
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
as Self
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Mrs. Lovett
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Sixty Six
as Esther Rubens
Conversations with Other Women
as Woman
Magnificent 7
as Maggi Jackson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors
as Self
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Corpse Bride
as Corpse Bride (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Mrs. Bucket
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
The Heart of Me
as Dinah
Big Fish
as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
Live from Baghdad
as Ingrid Formanek
Till Human Voices Wake Us
as Ruby
Women Talking Dirty
as Cora
Novocaine
as Susan
Planet of the Apes
as Ari
Football
as Mum
Fight Club: Behind the Scenes
as Self
Carnivale
as Milly (voice)
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
The Theory of Flight
as Jane Hatchard
The Revengers' Comedies
as Karen Knightly
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Rosemary
The Wings of the Dove
as Kate Croy
Twelfth Night
as Olivia
Shadow Play
as Ada
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
Mighty Aphrodite
as Amanda
Margaret's Museum
as Margaret MacNeil
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Elizabeth
Butter
as Dorothy
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
as Marina Oswald
Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
as Pandora / Julie
White Bear's Secret
as White Bear (voice)
Howards End
as Helen Schlegel
Brown Bear's Wedding
as White Bear (voice)
Where Angels Fear to Tread
as Caroline Abbott
Hamlet
as Ophelia
Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
as Beatrix Potter
Getting It Right
as Minerva Munday
Arms and the Man
as Raina Petkoff
Francesco
as Chiara
The Mask
as Iris
A Hazard of Hearts
as Serena Staverley
The Vision
as Jo Marriner
Maurice
as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
A Room with a View
as Lucy Honeychurch
Lady Jane
as Lady Jane Grey
A Pattern of Roses
as Netty (The Past)
No Poster
The Housekeeper
as Adelaide
No Poster
The Well of Saint Nobody
as Tara
No Poster
The Offing
as Dulcie Piper
No Poster
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
as Self