Bellatrix Lestrange was portrayed by actress Helena Bonham Carter in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. As she is one of the main antagonists of the series, Bellatrix is involved in many major scenes from the fifth instalment onward.

The character’s name was taken from “Bellatrix”, a star in the Orion constellation. J. K. Rowling has stated that Bellatrix is one of her favourite characters to write, because she is “everything [Rowling] thinks is wrong with the world.”

Bellatrix Lestrange is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series. She was played by Helena Bonham Carter.

Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and large-scale blockbusters, she is the recipient of such accolades as a British Academy Film Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards.

Bonham Carter began her career playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985). Her film breakthrough was in Tim Burton’s Gothic romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990), for which she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress. She made her directorial debut with the short film The Love Letter (1999) and subsequently directed The Heart of Me (2002). Her other television films include Enid (2009) and Burton & Taylor (2013). In 2012, she received acclaim and several award nominations for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech. Since then she has played the title role in Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films (2007–2011), Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its sequel Alice Through the Looking

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton’s A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. Her breakthrough role was Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, for which she received critical acclaim.

Bonham Carter achieved international fame for her portrayal of Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter film series, which earned her three consecutive Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Empire Awards and a nomination at the Saturn Awards. She also starred in several high-grossing films, such as Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Alice in Wonderland, for which she received two Saturn Awards. In 2012, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for portraying Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech.

She is married to director Tim Burton, with whom she has two children. Their home is 2 miles from JK Rowling’s house.

Bellatrix Lestrange (née Black; c. 1951 – 2 May, 1998) was a pure-blood witch and a Death Eater. She was the eldest daughter of Cygnus Black III and Druella Rosier, younger sister of Andromeda Tonks and older sister to Narcissa Malfoy.

Bellatrix was an unrepentant sadist and a remorseless killer who took pleasure in the act of torture. She enjoyed the “art” of duelling as well as murder, and relished every opportunity to use her skills with the Dark Arts. Bellatrix was also very loyal to Lord Voldemort, even more so than her husband Rodolphus Lestrange.

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, television, and theatre. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton’s A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane.

Bonham Carter made her breakthrough with a supporting role as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985). She also had leading roles in such films as Howards End, Fight Club, The Wings of the Dove and Big Fish. Her performance in Room won her the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, while she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech (2010), and received nominations for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King’s Speech.

Since then, Bonham Carter has been seen in such films as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Dark Shadows.

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton’s A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane (1986). Her other early film appearances include A Room with a View (1986), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) and Howards End (1992).

Bonham Carter was born in Golders Green, London.[1] She is the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker.[2][3] Her maternal grandparents were Spaniard Antonio Propper de Callejón, who fought for Franco during the Spanish Civil War,[4] and Hungarian-born Magda Gomes di Sousa, who fled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[5][6] Her grandfather was János Gómez de la Serna y de la Gándara (“János Gómez Gándara”), an exiled Spanish nobleman from Andalusia.[7] The third Baron Asquith of Bishopstone,[8] Asquith’s daughter Violet Bonham Carter was Helena’s