Helena Bonham Carter

Total Box Office:
 $2785.5M
Highest Rated:
100% Live from Baghdad (2002)
Lowest Rated:
25% Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
Birthday:
May 26
Birthplace:
London, England
Bio:
Perhaps the actress most widely identified with corsets and men named Cecil, Helena Bonham Carter was for a long time typecast as an antiquated heroine, no doubt helped by her own brand of Pre-Raphaelite beauty. With a tumble of brown curls (which were, in fact, hair extensions), huge dark eyes, and…

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Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Cinderella
  • The Fairy Godmother
-- 2015
68% Great Expectations
  • Miss Havisham
-- 2013
31% The Lone Ranger
  • Red Harrington
$89.2M 2013
The Young And Prodigious T.s. Spivet
  • Actor
-- 2013
Kidtoons: The Gruffalo, Pocoyo & The Wiggles
  • Actor
-- 2012
38% Dark Shadows
  • Dr. Julia Hoffman
$79.7M 2012
The Gruffalo's Child
  • Narrator
-- 2012
70% Les Misérables
  • Madame Thenardier
$148.8M 2012
96% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
  • Bellatrix Lestrange
$381.0M 2011
61% Toast
  • Mrs. Potter
-- 2011
78% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
  • Bellatrix Lestrange
$295.0M 2010
94% The King's Speech
  • Queen Elizabeth
$138.8M 2010
51% Alice in Wonderland
  • Red Queen
$319.3M 2010
Terminator Salvation (Extended)
  • Actor
-- 2009
The Gruffalo
  • Narrator
-- 2009
Enid
  • Actor
-- 2009
84% Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Bellatrix Lestrange
$301.9M 2009
33% Terminator Salvation
  • Dr. Serena Kogan
$125.3M 2009
79% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Bellatrix Lestrange
$292.0M 2007
86% Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Mrs. Nellie Lovett
$52.8M 2007
Women of Indie Film
  • Actor
-- 2007
Arms and the Man
  • Actor
-- 2006
63% Sixty Six
  • Esther Rubens
-- 2006
Magnificent 7
  • Actor
-- 2005
Building 'Howards End'
  • Actor
-- 2005
95% Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  • Director
  • Lady Campanula Tottington (Voice)
$56.1M 2005
82% Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Mrs. Bucket
$206.4M 2005
83% Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
  • Corpse Bride
$53.3M 2005
74% Conversations With Other Women
  • Woman
-- 2005
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience
  • Actor
-- 2005
Henry VIII
  • Actor
-- 2004
Shadow Play
  • Actor
-- 2004
77% Big Fish
  • Jenny
$66.3M 2004
Henry VIII
  • Anne Boleyn
-- 2003
100% Live from Baghdad
  • Ingrid Formanek
-- 2002
50% The Heart of Me
  • Dinah
-- 2002
25% Till Human Voices Wake Us
  • Ruby
-- 2002
45% Planet of the Apes
  • Ari
$178.1M 2001
38% Novocaine
  • Actor
$1.5M 2001
Women Talking Dirty
  • Actor
-- 2001
Women Talking Dirty
  • Cora
-- 1999
Passion and Romance: The Wings of the Dove
  • Actor
-- 1999
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
  • Actor
-- 1999
81% Fight Club
  • Marla Singer
-- 1999
Carnivale
  • Milly
-- 1999
The Revengers' Comedies (Sweet Revenge)
  • Karen Knightly
-- 1998
50% The Theory of Flight
  • Jane Hatchard
-- 1998
80% Merlin
  • Morgan Le Fey
-- 1998
86% A Merry War (Keep the Aspidistra Flying)
  • Rosemary
-- 1998
Margaret's Museum
  • Actor
-- 1997
86% The Wings of the Dove
  • Kate Croy
-- 1997
74% Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
  • Olivia
-- 1996
69% Portraits Chinois
  • Ada
-- 1996
Shadow Play
  • Actor
-- 1996
67% Margaret's Museum
  • Margaret MacNeil
-- 1995
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
  • Actor
-- 1995
77% Mighty Aphrodite
  • Amanda
-- 1995
44% Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Elizabeth
-- 1994
Mystery! - A Dark Adapted Eye
  • Faith
-- 1994
Francesco
  • Actor
-- 1994
Storyteller's Classics - The Toy Symphony
  • Actor
-- 1994
Dancing Queen, (Rik Mayall Presents Dancing Queen)
  • Actor
-- 1993
92% Howards End
  • Helen Schlegel
-- 1992
62% Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • Caroline Abbott
-- 1991
76% Hamlet
  • Director
  • Ophelia
-- 1990
Francesco
  • Chiara
-- 1989
Arms and the Man
  • Raina
-- 1989
67% Getting It Right
  • Minerva Munday
-- 1989
90% Maurice
  • BonhamYoung Lady at Cricket Match
-- 1987
A Hazard of Hearts
  • Serena Staverley
-- 1987
Vision
  • Jo Marriner
-- 1987
57% Lady Jane
  • Lady Jane Grey
-- 1986
100% A Room With A View
  • Lucy Honeychurch
-- 1986
A Pattern of Roses
  • Actor
-- 1983


TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
100% Absolutely Fabulous
  • Actor
1992-2012
55% Life's Too Short
  • Herself
2011-2011

Helena Bonham Carter Trivia

Helena Bonham Carter wears fake teeth in a couple of her films: Planet of the Apes (2001), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and the Harry Potter films.
- submitted by F0xy H (3 years ago)
A fight scene between Helena Bonham Carter and Gary Oldman in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) was cut from the final film. Carter trained for three weeks for the fight.
- submitted by F0xy H (3 years ago)

Quotes from Helena Bonham Carter's Characters

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