Helena Bonham Carter

Biography

Helena Bonham Carter is a highly acclaimed English actress known for her versatility. She is commonly regarded as one of the UK`s most skillful and successful actresses, popular for her roles in films like the Harry Potter series (2007-11), Wings of Dove (1997), and King`s Speech (2010). She has made her name in English films as well as Hollywood and also hasn`t shied away from being a part of TV.
 

Helena Bonham Carter has never been married, though she has publicly been in two relationships. She started dating actor Kenneth Branagh in 1994. They called off their relationship after five years in 1999.

In the early part of her career, Bonham Carter played a lot of pre or early 20th-century English characters for which she came to be popularly known as the `Corset Queen` and `English Rose`. Her debut film lead role had her playing Lady Jane Grey - aka the Nine Day Queen - in the film Lady Jane (1986).

 However, she shot to fame with her performance as Lucy Honey church in the Merchant Ivory film Room With A View (1985) which was shot after Lady Jane but released beforehand. Angels Fear to Tread (1991) and Howards End (1992) are two of the other films where she played a corset-clad character.

But Bonham Carter did not fit the stereotype as she also enacted Shakespearean characters in films like Hamlet (1990) and Twelfth Night (1996) with equal ease. Wings of Dove (1997) is one of her highly acclaimed films wherein her role as the cunning Kate Croy got her a Golden Globe as well as an Academy Award Nomination.

In 2012, Bonham Carter essayed the role of Miss Havisham in the Mike Newell adaptation of Great Expectations. She also played the role of Madame Thenardier in the film adaptation of the musical Les Miserable that year.

The year 2013 saw her playing a pimp named Red Harrington in the film The Lone Ranger and playing the mother of the lead character TS Spivet in the film The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet. 

The film Suffragette (2014) in which starred in is a historical period drama about the suffrage of women in the United Kingdom. She played the role of Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

Bonham Carter`s other films are a spin-off of the Ocean`s Eleven Trilogy titled Ocean`s Eight (2017) and Enola Holmes (2020).

Bonham Carter has always played characters on Television in her film career. She appeared as Don Johnson`s love interest in Miami Vice very early in her career. She has also played roles in more than a couple of television films like Live From Baghdad, Toast, and Burton & Taylor.

 However, her most acclaimed TV performance came with the biographical television film Enid, wherein she essayed the role of Enid. Bonham Carter won the International Emmy Award for her performance in Enid. She also featured in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) and The Crown (2020).