Helena Bonham Carter CBE |
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Bonham Carter at the 26th Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2011
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Born |
Helena Bonham Carter 26 May 1966 Islington, London, England |
Residence | Hampstead, London |
Nationality | British |
Education |
South Hampstead High School Westminster School |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1983–present |
Partner(s) |
Kenneth Branagh (1994–99) Tim Burton (2001–14) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) |
Raymond Bonham Carter (father) Elena Propper de Callejón (mother) |
Awards | Full list |
Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997). For her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She also won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role as British author Enid Blyton in the TV film Enid (2009).
Bonham Carter began her film career playing the title character in Lady Jane (1986), and playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1986). Her other film roles include Ophelia in Hamlet (1990), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), Howards End (1992), Elizabeth Lavenza in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series (2007–11), Terminator Salvation (2009), Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2012), Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables (2012), and The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (2015). She has frequently collaborated with director Tim Burton; in Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Dark Shadows (2012), and playing the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016). Her other television films include A Pattern of Roses (1983), Live from Baghdad (2002), and Burton & Taylor (2013).