Helena Bonham Carter was born on May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London. She is an Academy Award-nominated British actress.

Helena made her screen debut in 1985, playing the ill-fated title character of Trevor Nunn's Lady Jane. This led to her casting as the protagonist in the critically acclaimed Merchant/Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Room With a View (1986), the film proved a great critical success, winning eight Academy Award nominations.

She also appeared in Maurice (1987), Howard's End (1992), The Wings of a Dove (1997) and Fight Club (1999).

She played the role of Jenny in Burton's Big Fish (2003), portrayed Charlie's mother in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and voiced the title role in Corpse Bride (2005).

Bonham Carter was in a relationship with actor Kenneth Branagh from 1994 to the summer of 1999. She then briefly dated actors Rufus Sewell and Steve Martin. In October 2001, she began her current relationship with director Tim Burton.

Filmography

• Stand by Love (2008)
• Sweeney Todd (2007)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Sixty Six (2006)
• Magnificent 7 (2005)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Corpse Bride (2005)
• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Conversations with Other Women (2005)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Henry VIII (2003)
• Live from Baghdad (2002)
• Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
• The Heart of Me (2002)
• Novocaine (2001)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Football (2001)
• Carnivale (2000)
• The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999)
• Women Talking Dirty (1999)
• Fight Club (1999)
• The Theory of Flight (1998)
• The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
• Merlin (1998) (TV)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997)
• The Petticoat Expeditions (1997)
• Portraits chinois (1996)
• Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
• Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
• Margaret's Museum (1995)
• Frankenstein (1994)
• "Absolutely Fabulous" (1 episode, 1994)
• Butter (1994)
• A Dark Adapted Eye (1994)
• Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)
• Dancing Queen (1993)
• Howards End (1992)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
• "Jackanory" (5 episodes, 1991)
• Hamlet (1990)
• Getting It Right (1989)
• Francesco (1989)
• Arms and the Man (1989)
• Maschera, La (1988)
• The Vision (1988)
• A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
• Maurice (1987)
• "Miami Vice" (2 episodes, 1987)
• Lady Jane (1986)
• A Room with a View (1985)
• A Pattern of Roses (1983)

Awards

• Boston Society of Film Critics Award Best Actress "The Wings of the Dove" 1997
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Actress "The Wings of the Dove" 1997
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress "The Wings of the Dove" 1997
• National Board of Review Award Best Actress "The Wings of the Dove" 1997
• Society of Texas Film Critics Award Best Actress "The Wings of the Dove" 1997
• Toronto Film Critics Association Award Best Actress "The Wings of the Dove" 1997
• Genie Best Actress "Margaret's Museum" 1996