Helena Bonham Carter

Also Credited As:

Helena Bonham-Carter
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Biography

Though typecast as aristocratic heroines in solemn period films in the early part of her career, London-born actress Helena Bonham Carter struggled to prove her range and break free of her corseted mold. She gained notoriety as the leading ingénue in a few Merchant-Ivory productions, including "A Room with a View" (1986) and "Howards End" (1992), and quickly developed into the quintessential Edwardian heroine. Wanting to avoid being …
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Job Title

Actor, Music, Other

Born

May 26, 1966

LATEST CREDITS

A Dark Adapted Eye

Faith Severn

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald

Marina Oswald

Carnivale

of Milly

La Maschera

Iris

Poor Things

Actor

Twelfth Night

Olivia

Lady Jane

Lady Jane Grey

Toast

Mrs. Potter

Portraits Chinois

Ada

Lorelei

Actor

Till Human Voices Wake Us

Ruby

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Caroline Abbott

The Wings of the Dove

Kate Croy

Margaret's Museum

Margaret

The Theory of Flight

Jane Hatchard

Women Talking Dirty

Cora

The Gruffalo

Mother Squirrel

The Young and Prodigious Spivet

Dr. Clair

The African Safari Papers

Janet Clark

Great Expectations

Miss Havisham

Sixty Six

Esther Rubens

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Mrs. Lovett

Planet of the Apes: Rule the Planet

Interviewee

A Room With A View

Lucy Honeychurch

The Heart of Me

Dinah