Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) is an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997) and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech (2010). Her other film roles include A Room with a View (1986), Howards End (1992), Fight Club (1999), and Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter Series (2007-11).

Bonham Carter began her film career playing the title character in Lady Jane (1986). She has frequently collaborated with director Tim Burton: Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Dark Shadows (2012). She won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the TV film Enid and the 2011 BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The King’s Speech. Her other film roles include Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2012), Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables (2012), the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (2015), and the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland’s sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).

She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year honors list for services to drama, and in January 2014 the British prime minister, David Cameron, announced Bonham Carter had been appointed to Britain’s new national Holocaust Commission.