Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She has had an extensive career on stage, film and television, which began in 1983 and includes roles in both low-budget independent art films and large-scale blockbusters. She is known for her roles in low-budget arthouse and independent films to large-scale Hollywood productions.

Bonham Carter made her first appearance on the screen as a child in Lady Jane (1986) and A Pattern of Roses (1983). Her film breakthrough was in 1992, playing the title role in Edward II. She received acclaim for her starring role in 1996’s The Wings of the Dove, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1998, Bonham Carter took the role of Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Since then she has portrayed three more characters from J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world: Bellatrix’s cousin Andromeda Tonks in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Helena Ravenclaw/the Grey Lady in Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), and Red Queen/Iracebeth of Crims in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. She was born May 26, 1966, in Golders Green, London, England, to Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker. She is of mostly Spanish (from her maternal grandfather) and English descent.

Bonham Carter studied at the University of Cambridge where she earned a 2:1 in Medieval and Modern Languages (Spanish and Italian). She began acting full-time in 1990, first appearing on stage but getting her breakthrough role as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985). For her performance as Isabella in The Wings of the Dove (1997), she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and won the BAFTA award for Best Actress. She has also won two Golden Globe Awards, four British Independent Film Awards and several other awards. Her other notable films include; Fight Club (1999), Howards End (1992), Hamlet (1996), The King’s Speech (2010) for which she received her second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress.”

Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in independent films and large-scale blockbusters, and for her eccentric appearance. 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.

Bonham Carter began her film career playing the title character in Lady Jane (1986), and played the young heroine in Tim Burton’s big-screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2010). She also starred in Burton’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and played Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series (2007–2011). Her other films include A Room with a View (1986), Howards End (1992), Fight Club (1999), The Wings of the Dove (1997), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003) Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Les Misérables (

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK’s finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker. She is the great-granddaughter of former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and niece to actress Juliet Asquith.

Bonham Carter was raised in West London and educated at South Hampstead High School (now South Hampstead School), an independent girls’ school. She then took up an acting career at 16 by taking a place at the Camberwell College of Arts. Her early television roles included a sympathetic murderess in Prime Suspect 3 (1993), playing opposite Helen Mirren; Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1986) and as Ophelia alongside Mel Gibson in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996).

In 1992 Bonham Carter began her collaboration with Tim Burton with a small role in his film Edward Scissorhands (1990), followed by lead roles as both Kate Croy and Lily Bart in The Wings of the Dove (1997) for which she won

Helena Bonham Carter 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) and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech (2010). For her role as Marla Singer in Fight Club (1999), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Her other film roles include Ophelia in Hamlet (1990), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), Margaret Schlegel in Howards End (1992), Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985), Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1998), Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010).

Bonham Carter began her film career playing the title character’s wife, Elizabeth Lavenza, in Frankenstein (1994). Her greatest commercial successes include Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Corpse Bride and Alice In Wonderland.

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. She is known for her roles in both low-budget independent art films and large-scale blockbusters. 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.

Bonham Carter began her film career playing the title character in Lady Jane (1986), and playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985). Her other television films include A Pattern of Roses (1983), Deadly Advice (1994), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010) and Burton & Taylor (2013).

Bonham Carter made her feature film debut in a supporting role as the aristocratic and malevolent Helen Burns opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Wood and Maggie Smith, in the 1984 period drama A Room with a View. The role was well received by critics and Bonham Carter received a BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.