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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is a British actress. She is known for her character roles as eccentric women in blockbusters and independent films, particularly period dramas. Bonham Carter rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "English rose", a label with which she was un…
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entertainment · British actress (born 1966) · film actor · voice actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · also Helena Bonham Carter, Helena Bonham-Carter, Carter
Born 26 May 1966 · Q170428
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2026· 3 entries
“It might be easier to work together without being together anymore. He always only cast me with great embarrassment.”
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The Guardian: Helena Bonham Carter joins Steve Coogan for The White Lotus season four
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘He lived inside poetry’: Toby Jones and Helena Bonham Carter perform poems in memory of lost loved ones
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The Guardian: Helena Bonham Carter performs Don’t Let That Horse by Lawrence Ferlinghetti – video
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2022· 1 entry
Bonham Carter was appointed to the honorary position of the London Library's president, making her their first female president
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2021· 1 entry
Wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar on the influence of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on her life since she first read the book as a child: "As far back as I can remember, I've been a wannabe Alic
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2020· 1 entry
Bonham Carter starred as Eudoria Holmes in the Netflix film Enola Holmes, which is based on the Sherlock Holmes adaptation, The Enola Holmes Mysteries
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2019· 1 entry
“Everybody ages at a different rate. My boyfriend is unbelievably mature. He”
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2016· 2 entries
Bonham Carter reprised her role of the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass
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Bonham Carter said she was keen on the UK remaining in the European Union in regard to the referendum on that issue
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2013· 1 entry
Bonham Carter appeared in The Young and Prodigious T
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2012· 1 entry
Bonham Carter appeared as the eccentric, jilted bride Miss Havisham—one of the most potent figures in Victorian gothic fiction—in Mike Newell's adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The King's Speech (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
Starred with Freddie Highmore in the Nigel Slater biopic Toast, which was filmed in the West Midlands and received a gala at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival
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Bonham Carter played Queen Elizabeth in the film The King's Speech
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2009· 1 entry
Bonham Carter was the mother squirrel narrator in the 30-minute animated film adaptation of the best-selling children's book The Gruffalo, which was broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2009
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2006· 2 entries
“Mark Wahlberg, ator que interpreta um ser humano no filme Planeta dos Macacos, falando sobre a macaca Ari, personagem da atriz Helena Bonham-Carter”
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Bought the Mill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
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2005· 1 entry
Bonham Carter voiced Lady Tottingham, a wealthy aristocratic spinster in the 2005 stop-motion animated comedy Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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2003· 1 entry
When she was cast to play Anne Boleyn in the two part mini-series Henry VIII
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2001· 1 entry
Bonham Carter began a relationship with American director Tim Burton, engaged to actress Lisa Marie when Carter and Burton met while filming Planet of the Apes; they remained together for more than a decade
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1999· 2 entries
After five years together, Bonham Carter and Branagh separated
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Where Bonham Carter played Marla Singer, a role for which she won the 2000 Empire Award for Best British Actress
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1994· 2 entries
Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh met while filming Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Appeared in a dream sequence during the second series of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, as Edina Monsoon's daughter Saffron, who was normally played by Julia Sawalha
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1987· 1 entry
With Dirk Bogarde in The Vision, Stewart Granger in A Hazard of Hearts, and John Gielgud in Getting It Right
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1979· 1 entry
And used the money to pay for her entry into the actors' Spotlight directory
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-05-26.
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