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Acting

Helena Bonham Carter

Career: Active from 1986 to 2026, busiest in 2012 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 69
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Night Will Fall
87/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Screen Actors Guild Awards · Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2011 · Won
The King's Speech
Source: Wikidata
BAFTA Awards · Best Supporting Actress
2011 · Won · 64th British Academy Film Awards
The King's Speech
Source: Wikidata
Critics' Choice Awards · Best Actress
1997 · Won
The Wings of the Dove
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Supporting Role
2011 · Nominated · 83rd Academy Awards
The King's Speech
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Leading Role
1998 · Nominated · 70th Academy Awards
The Wings of the Dove
Source: Wikidata

Characters

32

The characters Helena Bonham Carter played, best-known titles first.

Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange

Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange

Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket

Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen

Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett

Helena Bonham Carter as Madame Thénardier

Helena Bonham Carter as Corpse Bride

Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman

Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret

Helena Bonham Carter as Rose Weil

Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Holmes

Helena Bonham Carter as Red Harrington

Helena Bonham Carter as Ari

Helena Bonham Carter as Fairy Godmother

Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Campanula Tottington

Helena Bonham Carter as Red Queen

Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria Holmes

Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth

Helena Bonham Carter as Babette Winton

Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Caterham

Helena Bonham Carter as Morgan le Fay

Helena Bonham Carter as Noele Gordon

Helena Bonham Carter as Siveth (voice)

Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Taylor

Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Boleyn

Helena Bonham Carter as Serena Staverley

Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret Gore

Helena Bonham Carter as George

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 82 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Helena Bonham Carter Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.9, average 5.4
Crime
2.4, average 3.5
Adrenaline
3.6, average 4.8
Violence
3.3, average 4.1

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Character-Driven 11
Character Study 7
Political Intrigue 6
Biographical Drama 5
Witty Dialogue 5
Emotional Catharsis 5
Tim Burton Aesthetic 5
Period Piece 5
Literary Adaptation 5
Family-Friendly 4
Psychological Drama 4
Dialogue-Driven 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

118

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

4 titles

as Dulcie Piper

California Avenue

TV show · as Eddie

The Well of Saint Nobody

as Tara

The Housekeeper

as Adelaide

2020s

20 titles · average score 66

Enola Holmes 3

57

as Eudoria Holmes

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials

57

TV show · as Lady Caterham

The Land of Sometimes

40

as Mediocris (voice)

Four Letters of Love

52

as Margaret Gore

Nolly

81

TV show · as Noele 'Nolly' Gordon

One Life

79

as Babi Winton

The Velveteen Rabbit

79

as Wise Horse (voice)

Wild Babies

63

TV show · as Narrator

Dragonheart: Vengeance

56

as Siveth (voice)

Enola Holmes

72

as Eudoria Holmes

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

as Lady Devilla

Clown

60

as Narrator (voice)

2010s

32 titles · average score 68

Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

75

as Margaret Conroy (voice)

Alice Through the Looking Glass

45

as Iracebeth / Red Queen

Suffragette

68

as Edith Ellyn

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

67

as Dr. Clair

The Lone Ranger

46

as Red Harrington

Les Misérables

68

as Madame Thénardier

Dark Shadows

57

as Dr. Julia Hoffman

Great Expectations

63

as Miss Havisham

The Gruffalo's Child

68

as Mother Squirrel (voice)

The King's Speech

83

as Queen Elizabeth

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

74

as Bellatrix Lestrange

Alice in Wonderland

57

as Iracebeth / Red Queen

2000s

25 titles · average score 65

Terminator Salvation

49

as Serena

The Gruffalo

74

as Mother Squirrel (voice)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

79

as Mrs. Lovett

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

75

as Bellatrix Lestrange

Conversations with Other Women

68

as Woman

Corpse Bride

79

as Corpse Bride (voice)

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

81

as Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

70

as Mrs. Bucket

Big Fish

68

as Jenny (young & senior) / The Witch

Live from Baghdad

75

as Ingrid Formanek

Planet of the Apes

46

as Ari

Novocaine

48

as Susan

1990s

25 titles · average score 67

Fight Club

76

as Marla Singer

The Theory of Flight

48

as Jane Hatchard

The Revengers' Comedies

59

as Karen Knightly

The Wings of the Dove

74

as Kate Croy

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

65

as Rosemary

Twelfth Night

73

as Olivia

Mighty Aphrodite

69

as Amanda

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

50

as Elizabeth

A Dark Adapted Eye

77

TV show · as Faith Severn

Howards End

81

as Helen Schlegel

Where Angels Fear to Tread

63

as Caroline Abbott

Hamlet

58

as Ophelia

1980s

12 titles · average score 70

Francesco

57

as Chiara

Arms and the Man

as Raina Petkoff

Getting It Right

69

as Minerva Munday

The Mask

as Iris

A Hazard of Hearts

67

as Serena Staverley

The Vision

as Jo Marriner

Maurice

78

as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)

A Room with a View

83

as Lucy Honeychurch

Lady Jane

58

as Lady Jane Grey

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Jo Marriner

Miami Vice

78

TV show · as Dr. Theresa Lyons

A Pattern of Roses

as Netty (The Past)