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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Four Letters of Love
2025
as Margaret Gore
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so t...

Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...

Charles III: The Coronation Year
2023
as Narrator
Follows King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the aftermath of the death and state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and the start of his reign.

One Life
2023
as Babi Winton
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of ...

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
as Self
imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigge...

The Velveteen Rabbit
2023
as Wise Horse (voice)
When seven-year-old William receives a new favorite toy for Christmas, he discovers a lifelong friend and unlocks a world of magic.

The Real Nolly
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Helena Bonham-Carter narrates this explorative doc about Noele Gordon. Witness the rise & fall of a soapland queen with access to personal papers and ...

Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland...

Enola Holmes 2
2022
as Eudoria Holmes
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous...

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
2022
as Self
On 3 May 2022, Cameron Mackintosh invited many of Stephen Sondheim’s old friends to join him in London’s West End for a thrilling, joyously staged pro...

The House
2022
as Jen (voice)
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy...

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through...

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him ba...

Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021
as Siveth (voice)
Lukas, a young farmer whose family is killed by savage raiders in the countryside, sets out on an epic quest for revenge, forming an unlikely trio wit...

Clown
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Follow a little toy clown, thrown away with a load of old discarded toys, as he goes on a journey to find a new loving home for himself and his friend...
The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson
2020
as reader
The programme offers unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies, and the remarkable cast of characters that have ...

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020
as Lady Devilla
Olivia Colman leads a stellar cast of actors, entertainers and comedians in a very special ‘stay-at-home’ adaptation of Cinderella for Comic Relief.
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020
as Self - Readings
This was of course a fitting look into the world of Julia Donaldson, whose books have kept the BBC in Christmas animations for the last few years, and...

Enola Holmes
2020
as Eudoria Holmes
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
as Self
Ten big name actors, including Jim Broadbent, Jodie Whittaker, David Tennant and Olivia Colman, come together to record an album for Children In Need

E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
2019
as Self
A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.

Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Five hundred years after his birth, the life and career of the Italian Renaissance's last great painter is explored.
Reimagining The Met Gala
2018
as Self
Director Ross, various cast and crew and members of the Met staff discuss how the film took over the famous museum for its version of the gala. The pr...

Ocean's Team 3.0
2018
as Self
Director Gary Ross and participants from the previous extras discuss the challenge of casting a film where group chemistry is even more important than...

Ocean's Eight
2018
as Rose Weil
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in ...

55 Steps
2018
as Eleanor Riese
The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the righ...

55 Steps
2018
Executive Producer
The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the righ...

Poles Apart
2017
as Nanuk
In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend.

Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

Suffragette
2015
as Edith Ellyn
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and m...

Cinderella
2015
as Fairy Godmother
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, ...

Wild Africa
2015
as Narrator
Take a spectacular ride across, over, and through the magical realms of the most dramatic continent on earth: Africa. Our guide through this enchanted...
Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
2014
as Self
An inside look into the creation of Universal Studio's Diagon Alley attraction.

Night Will Fall
2014
as Narrator (voice)
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, reveali...
Riding a Train of Thoughts
2014
as Self
A documentary directed by Julien Lecat.

Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Margot Tyrell
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...

Turks & Caicos
2014
as Margot Tyrell
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013
as Dr. Clair
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and ...

Burton and Taylor
2013
as Elizabeth Taylor
Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

The Lone Ranger
2013
as Red Harrington
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is ...

Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
as Self
A look at the life and work of legendary film producer Richard D. Zanuck.

Les Misérables
2012
as Madame Thénardier
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stea...

Great Expectations
2012
as Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy ...

Dark Shadows: The Collinses - Every Family Has Its Demons
2012
as Self
A Look at the Cast of Dark Shadows (2012)

A Therapy
2012
as Patient
Short by Roman Polanski shot for Prada.

Dark Shadows
2012
as Dr. Julia Hoffman
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find ...
The Price of Kings: Shimon Peres
2012
as Narrator
“I don’t sleep at night... What we call experience the younger generation calls a chain of mistakes,” reflects Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize...
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat
2012
as Narrator
The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat is the first film in a groundbreaking documentary series looking at the political lives of some of the world's most ...

The Gruffalo's Child
2011
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores th...

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes of the final days of the final two Harry Potter ...

Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Ophelia (archive footage)
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great trag...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza...

Toast
2010
as Mrs Potter
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained ...

The King's Speech
2010
as Queen Elizabeth
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...
Alice in Wonderland: Finding Alice
2010
as Self
A look at Alice from Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice in Wonderland: The Mad Hatter
2010
as Self
A look at The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Alice in Wonderland: Effecting Wonderland
2010
as Self
A piece that takes a more general focus on the varied "disciplines" at work in the picture, from the different styles of CG-animation to motion captur...

Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Iracebeth / Red Queen
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

The Gruffalo
2009
as Mother Squirrel (voice)
The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Sn...

Enid
2009
as Enid Blyton
A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her per...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Bellatrix Lestrange
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie wi...

Terminator Salvation
2009
as Serena
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But whe...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008
as Self
A general making-of piece featuring principal members of the cast and crew. A brief history of the demon barber is provided, as well as the actors' pr...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Mrs. Lovett
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

Sixty Six
2006
as Esther Rubens
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

Conversations with Other Women
2006
as Woman
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception f...

Magnificent 7
2005
as Maggi Jackson
Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, the story follows a self-sacrificing mother of seven children, four of whom are, in one form or another, autis...

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2005
as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inve...

Corpse Bride
2005
as Corpse Bride (voice)
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Mrs. Bucket
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Beatrice Baudelaire (uncredited)
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and se...

The Heart of Me
2004
as Dinah
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which...

Big Fish
2003
as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste...

Live from Baghdad
2002
as Ingrid Formanek
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...

Till Human Voices Wake Us
2002
as Ruby
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side...

Women Talking Dirty
2001
as Cora
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Novocaine
2001
as Susan
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.

Planet of the Apes
2001
as Ari
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes domi...

Football
2001
as Mum
Lots of young British boys want to become great footballers. Does young Midge have what it takes? Watch as he goes from cradle to...?

Carnivale
2000
as Milly (voice)
A group of children are transported through a portal to another dimension where they are thrilled to discover a magical amusement park just for them.

Fight Club
1999
as Marla Singer
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches o...

The Theory of Flight
1999
as Jane Hatchard
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young wo...

The Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Karen Knightly
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin ...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Rosemary
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits...

The Wings of the Dove
1997
as Kate Croy
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's dece...

Twelfth Night
1996
as Olivia
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman ...

Shadow Play
1996
as Ada
Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also job...

Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Amanda
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother i...

Margaret's Museum
1995
as Margaret MacNeil
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Elizabeth
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead ...

Butter
1994
as Dorothy
Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting fr...

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Marina Oswald
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her...

Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen
1993
as Pandora / Julie
Dancing Queen is a 1993 British romantic comedy film starring Rik Mayall and Helena Bonham Carter. It follows the misfortune of Neil (Mayall), a bride...

White Bear's Secret
1992
as White Bear (voice)
Brown Bear and White Bear are now married, but Brown Bear is finding the married life a little harder than he hoped.

Howards End
1992
as Helen Schlegel
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, al...

Brown Bear's Wedding
1991
as White Bear (voice)
The shy Brown Bear falls for the beautiful White Bear and is bound and determined to make her his wife.

Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991
as Caroline Abbott
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
as Ophelia (archive footage)
Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

Hamlet
1990
as Ophelia
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter
1990
as Beatrix Potter
A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

Getting It Right
1989
as Minerva Munday
Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it there are three women interested in him. Lady Minerva...

Arms and the Man
1989
as Raina Petkoff
First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. ...

Francesco
1989
as Chiara
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a priv...

The Mask
1988
as Iris
A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more s...

A Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Serena Staverley
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: ...

The Vision
1987
as Jo Marriner
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a f...

Maurice
1987
as Young Lady at Cricket Match
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

A Room with a View
1986
as Lucy Honeychurch
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...

Lady Jane
1986
as Lady Jane Grey
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep E...

A Pattern of Roses
1983
as Netty (The Past)
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death o...
The Offing
N/A
as Dulcie Piper
Charts the intense and uplifting relationship between a teenage boy and a hard drinking, foul-mouthed, bohemian recluse called Dulcie
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
N/A
as Self
The documentary will feature such frequent Ivory collaborators Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and Hugh Grant, as well as director Wes Anderson. ...
The Well of Saint Nobody
N/A
as Tara
Famous concert pianist William retires to a rectory in West Cork, Ireland. There, he hires a local woman, Tara, as a housekeeper, whom he has met thre...

The Land of Sometimes
N/A
as Little Twink (voice)
Brother and sister Alfie and Elise keep wishing for more, until the night before Christmas when the strange and mysterious Wish Collector appears and ...
Not Bloody Likely
N/A
as Mrs. Patrick Campbell
The true story behind the 1914 West End production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion."

Enola Holmes 3
N/A
as Eudoria Holmes
Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide in a case more tangled and treacherous than any she h...