Discover key updates on Helena Bonham Carter.

• Talking about her career, Carter won a national writing contest in 1979. She debuted at 16th in a television commercial. Likely, she played the title role in the movie, ‘Lady Jane’, in 1986. In fact, in the Merchant-Ivory produced 1986 romance film, ‘A Room with a View’ she had a significant role as Lucy Honeychurch, who falls in love with a free-spirited young man.
• Whereas, between 1986 and 1988, she concentrated on television work. She also appeared in episodes of Miami ‪Vice and Fabulous and starred in television films such as A Hazard of Hearts and The Vision. Likewise, her role as Helen Schlegel in the 1992 Merchant-Ivory film, ‘Howards End’, based upon the novel by E. M. Forster.
• In, ‘Fight Club’, a 1999 film based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, she starred with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. She also played a dissolute woman, Marla Singer and received positive reviews from critics. For, ‘Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’, a 2005 animated film, she lent her voice to the character Lady Tottington. Whereas, the actress opened her fashion line, ‘The Pantaloonies’, in collaboration with swimwear designer Samantha Sage, in 2006.
• She essayed the character of Enid Blyton, the children’s writer, in ‘Enid’, a British dramatic television film, first broadcast in 2009 on BBC Four. This was also an award-winning effort. Likewise, ‘The King’s Speech’, a 2010 British epic historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper saw her portray Queen Elizabeth.
• Moreover, from 2007-2011, she also played the Bellatrix Lestrange in the final four Harry Potter films.
• In 2013, Bonham Carter appeared as Elizabeth Taylor, alongside Dominic West as Richard Burton, in BBC4’s Burton & Taylor which premiered at the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival.[44] She played the Fairy Godmother in the 2015 live-action re-imagining of Walt Disney’s Cinderella. In 2016, Bonham Carter reprised her role as the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass.
• In June 2018, Carter starred in a spin-off of the Ocean’s Eleven Trilogy, titled Ocean’s 8, alongside Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, and Sarah Paulson. She plays an older Princess Margaret for the Netflix series The Crown, replacing Vanessa Kirby who played a younger version for the first two seasons.