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{{Short description|English actress (born 1966)}}
{{British barrelled name|Bonham Carter|Carter}}
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| honorific_suffix   = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}
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| caption            = Bonham Carter in 2024
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|5|26}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/05/26/Famous-birthdays-for-May-26-Bobcat-Goldthwait-Lenny-Kravitz/7001653489276/ | title=Famous birthdays for May 26: Bobcat Goldthwait, Lenny Kravitz | access-date=15 January 2023 | archive-date=3 July 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703083413/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/05/26/Famous-birthdays-for-May-26-Bobcat-Goldthwait-Lenny-Kravitz/7001653489276/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
| alt                = Helena Bonham Carter onstage, holding a cup
| birth_place        = [[Islington]], London, England
| education          = {{ubl|[[South Hampstead High School]]|[[Westminster School]]<br>[[École Philippe Gaulier]]}}
| occupation         = Actress
| works              = [[List of Helena Bonham Carter performances|Full list]]
| years_active       = 1983–present
| partner            = {{Plainlist|
* [[Kenneth Branagh]] (1994–1999)
* [[Tim Burton]] (2001–2014)
* Rye Dag Holmboe (2018–present)
}}
| children           = 2
| father             = [[Raymond Bonham Carter]]
| relatives          = [[Edward Bonham Carter]] (brother)
| family             = [[Bonham Carter family|Bonham Carter]]
| awards             = [[List of awards and nominations received by Helena Bonham Carter|Full list]]
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'''Helena Bonham Carter''' (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She is known for her portrayals of eccentric women in [[Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbusters]] and [[independent films]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter Relishes 'Playing Weird Women' |url=https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/05/helena-bonham-carter-relishes-playing-weird-women |access-date=24 October 2020 |agency=BBC America |archive-date=31 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531053724/https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/05/helena-bonham-carter-relishes-playing-weird-women |url-status=live }}</ref> particularly [[period dramas]]. She rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985) and the title character in ''[[Lady Jane (1986 film)|Lady Jane]]'' (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "[[English rose (epithet)|English rose]]", a label with which she was uncomfortable.<ref name="Wilted rose"/> She is recognized for her unconventional fashion choices and dark aesthetic.<ref>{{cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helena-Bonham-Carter |access-date=24 October 2020 |agency=Encyclopaedia Britannica |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812023744/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helena-Bonham-Carter |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=How Helena Bonham Carter Became an Atypical Fashion Icon |url=https://www.savoirflair.com/fashion/472294/helena-bonham-carter-style-file |access-date=24 October 2020 |magazine=Savoir Flair |archive-date=31 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531054149/https://www.savoirflair.com/fashion/472294/helena-bonham-carter-style-file |url-status=live }}</ref> For her role as Kate Croy in ''[[The Wings of the Dove (1997 film)|The Wings of the Dove]]'' (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]], and for her portrayal of [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] in ''[[The King's Speech]]'' (2010), she won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]], and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]].

Her other films include ''[[Hamlet (1990 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1990), ''[[Howards End (film)|Howards End]]'' (1992), ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' (1994), ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]'' (1995), ''[[Fight Club]]'' (1999), ''[[Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]'' (2005), the ''[[Harry Potter (film series)|Harry Potter]]'' series (2007–2011), ''[[Great Expectations (2012 film)|Great Expectations]]'' (2012) as [[Miss Havisham]], ''[[Les Misérables (2012 film)|Les Misérables]]'' (2012), ''[[Cinderella (2015 American film)|Cinderella]]'' (2015), ''[[Ocean's 8]]'' (2018), and ''[[Enola Holmes (film)|Enola Holmes]]'' (2020). Her collaborations with director [[Tim Burton]] include ''[[Big Fish]]'' (2003), ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' (2005), ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' (2005), ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' (2007), ''[[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' and ''[[Dark Shadows (film)|Dark Shadows]]'' (2012).

For her role as children's author [[Enid Blyton]] in the [[BBC Four]] biographical film ''[[Enid (film)|Enid]]'' (2009), she won the 2010 [[International Emmy Award for Best Actress]] and was nominated for the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress]]. Her other television films include ''[[Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald]]'' (1993), ''[[Live from Baghdad (film)|Live from Baghdad]]'' (2002), ''[[Toast (film)|Toast]]'' (2010), and ''[[Burton & Taylor]]'' (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]] in [[The Crown (season 3)|seasons three]] and [[The Crown (season 4)|four]] of [[Netflix]]'s ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'' earning two [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series|Primetime Emmy Award]] nominations.

==Ancestry==

===Paternal===
{{see also|Bonham Carter family|Asquith family}}
Bonham Carter's paternal grandparents were British [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal politicians]] Sir [[Maurice Bonham-Carter]] and Lady [[Violet Bonham Carter]]. Sir Maurice was descended from [[John Bonham-Carter (1788–1838)|John Bonham Carter]], Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. Violet was a daughter of [[H.&nbsp;H. Asquith]], 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith and Prime Minister of Britain 1908–1916. Violet's brother was [[Anthony Asquith]], English director of such films as ''[[Carrington V.C. (film)|Carrington V.C.]]'' and ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)|The Importance of Being Earnest]]''.  Helena is also a first cousin of the economist [[Adam Ridley]]<ref>L. G. Pine, ''The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms'' (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), p. 16</ref> and of politician [[Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury|Jane Bonham Carter]].

Bonham Carter is a distant cousin of actor [[Crispin Bonham-Carter]]. Her other prominent distant relatives include [[Lothian Bonham-Carter|Lothian Bonham Carter]], who played [[first-class cricket]] for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]], his son, Vice Admiral Sir [[Stuart Bonham Carter]], who served in the [[Royal Navy]] in both [[world war]]s, and pioneering English nurse [[Florence Nightingale]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Local Luminaries: Famous People from the Area|publisher=Buriton Heritage Bank|date=June 2001|url=http://www.buriton.org.uk/bhb/infosheet05.htm|access-date=6 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719114600/http://www.buriton.org.uk/bhb/infosheet05.htm|archive-date=19 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Maternal===
{{see also|Fould family}}
Her maternal grandfather, Spanish diplomat [[Eduardo Propper de Callejón]], saved thousands of Jews from the [[Holocaust]] during the [[Second World War]], for which he was recognised as [[Righteous Among the Nations]],<ref name=YadVashem>{{cite web|title=Yad Vashem awards the title of Righteous Among the Nations to the late Eduardo Propper de Callejon of Spain|url=https://www.yadvashem.org/events/12-march-2008.html|publisher=[[International Institute for Holocaust Research]]|access-date=4 January 2013|archive-date=29 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929152724/https://www.yadvashem.org/events/12-march-2008.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and posthumously received the [[Courage to Care Award]] from the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5268_52.htm |title=ADL Honors Spanish Diplomat Who Saved Jews & Others During Holocaust |publisher=Adl.org |access-date=20 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117021008/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5268_52.htm |archive-date=17 January 2013}}</ref> His own father was a [[Bohemian Jew]], and his wife, Helena's grandmother, was a [[Jewish]] [[Conversion to Catholicism|convert to Catholicism]].<ref name="Pfefferman">{{cite web |last=Pfefferman |first=Naomi |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood_jew/article/helena_bonham_carter_jewish_mother_20080730/ |title=Helena Bonham Carter—Jewish mother? |publisher=Jewish Journal |date=30 July 2008 |access-date=20 December 2012 |archive-date=2 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902213608/http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood_jew/article/helena_bonham_carter_jewish_mother_20080730 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=YadVashem /> He later served as Minister-Counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/07/classified/paid-notice-deaths-propper-de-callejon-helene.html | work=New York Times | title=Paid Notice: Deaths PROPPER DE CALLEJON, HELENE | date=7 July 1997 | access-date=16 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229035911/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/07/classified/paid-notice-deaths-propper-de-callejon-helene.html | archive-date=29 December 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Her maternal grandmother, [[Fould family|Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer]], was from an upper-class [[Jews|Jewish]] family; she was the daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (a French banker descended from the [[Ephrussi family]] and the [[Fould family|Fould dynasty]]) and Marie-Cécile von Springer (whose father was Austrian-born industrialist Baron Gustav von Springer, and whose mother was from the de [[Koenigswarter]] family).<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref name="08ref1">{{cite news|last=Frazer |first=Jenni |title=How Helena's grandfather was finally recognised as a true hero |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle |date=8 February 2008 |url=http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=57933&ATypeId=1 |access-date=8 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210025449/http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=57933&ATypeId=1 |archive-date=10 February 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Barber|first=Lynn|title=Helena Bonham Carter: Couldn't she just wear a babygro?|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=20 April 1997|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1997/apr/20/lynnbarber|access-date=13 July 2007|archive-date=4 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704104829/http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/Observer/0,,44062,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hélène Fould-Springer [[Catholicisation|converted to Catholicism]] after the Second World War.<ref name="Pfefferman"/><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/08/helena_bonham_c.html | work=The Boston Globe | first=Michael | last=Paulson | title=Helena Bonham Carter as a Jewish mum | date=18 August 2008 | access-date=20 February 2020 | archive-date=23 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223090652/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/08/helena_bonham_c.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Hélène's sister was the French philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003), the wife of Baron [[Élie de Rothschild]], of the prominent [[Rothschild family]] (who had also married within the von Springer family in the 19th century);<ref>Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3415. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.</ref> Liliane's other sister, Therese Fould-Springer, was the mother of British writer [[David Pryce-Jones]].<ref name="08ref1" />

==Early life and education==
Bonham Carter was born in [[Islington]], [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVWQ-NZVB|title=Helena Bonham Carter|work=familysearch.org|access-date=3 October 2015|archive-date=5 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005084829/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVWQ-NZVB|url-status=live}}</ref> Her father, [[Raymond Bonham Carter]], who came from a prominent [[Bonham Carter family|British political family]], was a [[merchant bank]]er and served as the alternative British director representing the [[Bank of England]] at the [[International Monetary Fund]] in Washington, DC, during the 1960s.<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Helena Bonham Carter|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio|access-date=13 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628201600/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio|archive-date=28 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist who is of Spanish and mostly [[History of the Jews in the Czech lands|Bohemian]] and [[History of the Jews in France|French]]-[[Jewish]] background, and whose parents were diplomat [[Eduardo Propper de Callejón]] from Spain and painter [[Fould family|Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer]].<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref name="JJ"/> Bonham Carter's paternal grandmother was politician and feminist [[Violet Bonham Carter]], daughter of [[H. H. Asquith]], the [[prime minister of the United Kingdom]] during the first half of the [[First World War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Revealed: Helena Bonham Carter's lovestruck ancestor begged Winston Churchill to call off his wedding |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/revealed-helena-bonham-carters-lovestruck-1797085 |access-date=30 June 2019|first=John |last=Ferguson |newspaper=Daily Record |archive-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115213513/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/revealed-helena-bonham-carters-lovestruck-1797085 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Bonham Carter has two older brothers; [[Edward Bonham Carter|Edward]] and Thomas. They were brought up in [[Golders Green]], and she was educated at [[South Hampstead High School]], and completed her [[A-level]]s at [[Westminster School]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio |title=Helena Bonham Carter Biography – Yahoo! Movies |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=15 April 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628201600/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio |archive-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref> Bonham Carter applied to [[King's College, Cambridge]], but was rejected "because officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue an acting career."<ref name="scotsman1">{{cite news| url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scruffs-up-nicely-1-728157| title=Scruffs up nicely| newspaper=The Scotsman| date=20 July 2005| access-date=21 March 2015| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144226/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scruffs-up-nicely-1-728157| archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a serious [[nervous breakdown]], from which she needed three years to recover. Soon afterwards, her mother's experience in therapy led her to become a psychotherapist herself. Bonham Carter has since paid her to read her scripts and deliver opinions on the characters' psychological motivations.<ref name="globemail1">Liam Lacey, "'English rose' blossoms into other roles", 18 January 1996, ''The Globe and Mail'', D1</ref> Five years after her mother's recovery, her father was diagnosed with [[acoustic neuroma]]. He suffered complications during an operation to remove the tumour, which led to a stroke, leaving him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair.<ref name="times1">Valerie Grove, "How Helena Grew Up in a Violet Shadow", ''The Times'', 10 May 1996</ref> With her brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help her mother cope. She later studied her father's movements and mannerisms for her role in ''[[The Theory of Flight]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Helena Bonham Carter Biography |publisher=Tiscali |url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/helena_bonham_carter_biog.html |access-date=7 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126045307/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/helena_bonham_carter_biog.html |archive-date=26 January 2009 }}</ref> He died in January 2004.<ref>{{cite news |title=Raymond Bonham Carter |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1452428/Raymond-Bonham-Carter.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1452428/Raymond-Bonham-Carter.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=30 June 2019 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Career==
===Early work and breakthrough (1980s–1990s)===
Bonham Carter, who has had no formal acting training,<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |last=Mitchison |first=Amanda |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4724814/Zen-and-the-inner-ape.html |title=Zen and the inner ape |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |date=2 August 2001 |access-date=6 June 2024 |url-access=registration |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918042706/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4724814/Zen-and-the-inner-ape.html |archive-date=18 September 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> entered the field winning a national writing contest in 1979, and used the money to pay for her entry into the actors' ''Spotlight'' directory. She made her professional acting debut at the age of 16 in a television commercial. She also had a minor part in the 1983 TV film ''[[A Pattern of Roses]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Pattern of Roses (1983) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b755913f9 |access-date=15 December 2020 |agency=BFI |archive-date=29 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129122755/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b755913f9 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the early 1990s, Bonham Carter studied clown under master clown [[Philippe Gaulier]] at [[École Philippe Gaulier]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blake |first1=Quentin |title=Interview with Helena Bonham Carter for Quentin Blake's Clown |url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/interview-helena-bonham-carter-quentin-blakes-clown |website=www.channel4.com |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=3 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cavdendish |first1=Domenic |title=From the sublime to the ridicule |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722146/From-the-sublime-to-the-ridicule.html |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |publisher=The Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2025}}</ref>

Bonham Carter's first lead film role was as [[Lady Jane Grey]] in ''[[Lady Jane (1986 film)|Lady Jane]]'' (1986), which was given mixed reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was as Lucy Honeychurch in ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985), an adaptation of [[E. M. Forster]]'s [[A Room with a View|1908 novel]], which was filmed after ''Lady Jane'', but released two months earlier. She also appeared in episodes of ''[[Miami Vice]]'' as [[Don Johnson]]'s love interest during the 1986–87 season, and then in 1987 with [[Dirk Bogarde]] in ''[[The Vision (TV Movie)|The Vision]]'', [[Stewart Granger]] in ''[[A Hazard of Hearts]]'', and [[John Gielgud]] in ''[[Getting It Right (film)|Getting It Right]]''. Bonham Carter was originally cast for the role of Bess McNeill in ''[[Breaking the Waves]]'', but backed out during production owing to "the character's painful psychic and physical exposure", according to [[Roger Ebert]].<ref name="ebert1">[[Roger Ebert]], "British Film Likely to Win The Top Award at Cannes", ''Chicago Sun-Times'', 20 May 1996, p. 40</ref> The role went to [[Emily Watson]], who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/breaking.html |title=Breaking the Waves |access-date=7 October 2008 |date=7 January 2004 |work=Deep Focus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112095935/http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/breaking.html |archive-date=12 November 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Her early films led to her being typecast as a "[[corset]] queen" and "[[English rose (epithet)|English rose]]", playing pre- and early 20th century characters, particularly in [[Merchant Ivory]] films.<ref name="Wilted rose">{{cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter: Wicked fun of the wilted English rose|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/north-america-travel/us-travel/california/helena-bonham-carter-wicked-fun-of-the-wilted-english-rose-6837psjcrm0 |url-status=live |date=2 January 2011 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028222653/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-wicked-fun-of-the-wilted-english-rose-6837psjcrm0 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |url-access=limited |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref> Uncomfortable with this image, she states: "I looked, as someone said, like a bloated chipmunk".<ref name="Wilted rose"/> In 1994, Bonham Carter 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]]. Throughout the series, references were made to Saffron's resemblance to Bonham Carter.<ref>{{cite news |title=Absolutely Fab |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/absolutely-fab-1583811.html |access-date=24 July 2019 |work=The Independent |archive-date=24 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724190547/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/absolutely-fab-1583811.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Bonham Carter, who speaks French fluently, starred in a 1996 French film titled ''Portraits chinois''. That same year, she played Olivia in [[Trevor Nunn]]'s film version of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. One of the high points of her early career was her performance as the scheming Kate Croy in the 1997 film adaption of ''[[The Wings of the Dove (1997 film)|The Wings of the Dove]]'', which was highly acclaimed internationally and saw her receive her first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Then followed ''[[Fight Club]]'' in 1999, in which she played Marla Singer, a role for which she won the 2000 [[Empire Award for Best British Actress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/previouswinners/2000.asp |title=Sony Ericsson Empire Awards&nbsp;– 2000 Winners |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] |access-date=23 March 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201713/http://www.empireonline.com/awards2006/previouswinners/2000.asp |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref>

===Worldwide recognition and blockbuster films (2000s–2020s)===
[[File:Helena Bonham Carter 2005.jpg|thumb|upright|Bonham Carter at the [[2005 Toronto International Film Festival]]]]

In August 2001, she was featured in ''[[Maxim magazine|Maxim]]''. She played her second Queen of England when she was cast as [[Anne Boleyn]] in the ITV1 miniseries ''[[Henry VIII (TV serial)|Henry VIII]]''; however, her role was restricted, as she was pregnant with her first child at the time of filming.<ref name="express1">"Day & Night," Kathryn Spencer, Julie Carpenter and Kate Bohdanowicz, 24 September 2003, ''The Express'', p 36</ref> In 2005, she voiced Lady Tottingham, a wealthy aristocratic spinster in the 2005 stop-motion animated comedy ''[[Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]''. Starring alongside [[Ralph Fiennes]] and [[Peter Sallis]], the film serves as part of the [[Wallace & Gromit]] series.<ref>{{cite web|last1=DeMott|first1=Rick|title=Wallace & Gromit Leads Annie Nominations|url=http://www.awn.com/news/wallace-gromit-leads-annie-nominations|publisher=Animation World Network|access-date=26 September 2022|date=5 December 2005|archive-date=18 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618021055/https://www.awn.com/news/wallace-gromit-leads-annie-nominations|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Maressa|title='Wallace & Gromit' grabs 10 Annie Awards|url=https://variety.com/2006/digital/awards/wallace-gromit-grabs-10-annie-awards-1117937443/|access-date=26 September 2022|work=Variety|date=5 February 2008|archive-date=2 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202203015/https://variety.com/2006/digital/awards/wallace-gromit-grabs-10-annie-awards-1117937443/|url-status=live}}</ref>

She was a member of the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]] jury that unanimously selected ''[[The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)|The Wind That Shakes the Barley]]'' as best film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gofrance.about.com/od/cannesfilmfestival/a/cannes2006jury.htm |title=Cannes Film Festival 2006 Official Juries |access-date=7 October 2008 |date=7 October 2008 |work=Go France |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620114638/http://gofrance.about.com/od/cannesfilmfestival/a/cannes2006jury.htm |archive-date=20 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In May 2006, Bonham Carter launched her own fashion line, "The Pantaloonies", with swimwear designer Samantha Sage. Their first collection, called Bloomin' Bloomers, is a [[Victorian fashion|Victorian]] style selection of [[camisoles]], [[mob cap]]s, and [[Bloomers (clothing)|bloomers]]. The duo worked on Pantaloonies customised jeans, which Bonham Carter describes as "a kind of scrapbook on the bum".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article707405.ece |url-status=dead |work=[[The Times]] |location=UK |title=English eccentric |date=22 April 2006 |first=Hannah |last=Betts |access-date=29 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502004317/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article707405.ece |archive-date=2 May 2009 }}</ref>

Bonham Carter played the evil witch [[Bellatrix Lestrange]] in the final four [[Harry Potter (film series)|''Harry Potter'']] films (2007–2011). While filming ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', she accidentally perforated the eardrum of [[Matthew Lewis (actor)|Matthew Lewis]] (playing [[Neville Longbottom]]) when she stuck her wand into his ear canal.<ref name="daly">{{cite magazine|last=Daly|first=Steve|title=Helena Bonham Carter Gets Wicked|url=https://ew.com/article/2007/07/13/bonham-carter-i-think-i-took-my-sadism-bit-too-literally/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=13 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817071505/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20046035,00.html|archive-date=17 August 2007|url-status=live|access-date=13 May 2014}}</ref> Bonham Carter received positive reviews as Bellatrix, described as a "shining but underused talent".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lewis|first=Leo|date=28 June 2007|title=Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: the first review|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2000948.ece|url-status=dead|access-date=28 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706061328/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2000948.ece|archive-date=6 July 2008}}</ref><ref name="daly" /> She played [[Mrs. Lovett]], [[Sweeney Todd]]'s ([[Johnny Depp]]) amorous accomplice, in the film adaptation of [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s Broadway musical, ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', directed by Burton.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter Set to Play Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd Film |publisher=Broadway.com |date=18 October 2006 |url=http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=538813 |access-date=13 July 2007 |archive-date=5 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905110120/http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=538813 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Bonham Carter received a nomination for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe for Best Actress]] for her performance. She won the Best Actress award in the 2007 [[Evening Standard British Film Awards]] for her performances in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''[[Conversations With Other Women]]'', along with another Best Actress award at the [[Empire Awards 2009|2009 Empire Awards]]. Bonham Carter also appeared in the fourth ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' film, entitled ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', playing a small but pivotal role as a personification of [[Skynet (Terminator)|Skynet]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/terminator-4-helena-bonham-carter-niall-2837/ |title=Terminator 4 Gets Helena Bonham Carter! |date=1 July 2008 |publisher=ScreenRant |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821182251/http://screenrant.com/terminator-4-helena-bonham-carter-niall-2837/ |archive-date=21 August 2008 }}</ref>

[[File:Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter filming (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|alt=A man and woman standing side by side|Bonham Carter with [[Colin Firth]] on the set of ''[[The King's Speech]]'' in 2009]]

In 2009, Bonham Carter was the mother squirrel narrator in the [[The Gruffalo (film)|30-minute animated film]] adaptation of the best-selling children's book ''[[The Gruffalo]]'', which was broadcast on [[BBC One]] on 25 December 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/06_june/22/gruffalo.shtml | title=The Gruffalo BBC One Christmas special | work=BBC | date=22 June 2009 | access-date=26 September 2022 | archive-date=26 September 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926093147/https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/06_june/22/gruffalo.shtml | url-status=live }}</ref> Bonham Carter joined the cast of Tim Burton's 2010 film, ''Alice in Wonderland'', as the [[Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass)|Red Queen]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Burton brings Hollywood to Cornwall |work=This is Cornwall |url=http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/homepagenews/Burton-brings-Hollywood-Cornwall/article-359753-detail/article.html |access-date=29 September 2008 |date=29 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002220420/http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/homepagenews/Burton-brings-Hollywood-Cornwall/article-359753-detail/article.html |archive-date=2 October 2008 }}</ref>
She appears alongside [[Johnny Depp]], [[Anne Hathaway]], [[Mia Wasikowska]], [[Crispin Glover]], and Harry Potter co-star [[Alan Rickman]]. Her role was an amalgamation of [[Queen of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|the Queen of Hearts]] and the Red Queen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://joblo.com/index.php?id=23340 |title=Bonham Carter and Hathaway Join "Alice in Wonderland" |access-date=7 October 2008 |date=7 October 2008 |work=JoBlo.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010041807/http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=23340 |archive-date=10 October 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/artman2/publish/movie_news/Anne-Hathaway-in-Wonderland-12071008.php |title=Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway in "Wonderland" |access-date=7 October 2008 |date=7 October 2008 |work=The Hollywood News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014213447/http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/artman2/publish/movie_news/Anne-Hathaway-in-Wonderland-12071008.php |archive-date=14 October 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinematical.com/2008/10/07/hathaway-and-bonham-carter-join-alice-in-wonderland/ |title=Hathaway and Bonham Carter Join ''Alice in Wonderland'' |access-date=7 October 2008 |date=7 October 2008 |work=Cinematical |archive-date=30 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730030545/http://blog.moviefone.com/2008/10/07/hathaway-and-bonham-carter-join-alice-in-wonderland/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In early 2009, Bonham Carter was named one of ''[[The Times]]''{{'}}s top-10 British Actresses of all time, along with fellow actresses [[Judi Dench]], [[Helen Mirren]], [[Maggie Smith]], [[Julie Andrews]], and [[Audrey Hepburn]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5502980.ece |title=The best British film actresses of all time |date=12 January 2009 |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |first=James |last=Christopher |access-date=4 May 2010 |archive-date=27 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127204102/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2010, Bonham Carter played [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] in the film ''[[The King's Speech]].'' {{as of|2011|January|}}, she had received numerous plaudits and praise for her performance, including nominations for the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] and the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]].<ref name=KingsSpeech>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-18/entertainment/uk.movie.nominations_1_bafta-drama-category-motion-picture-screenplay |title='The King's Speech' leads the pack in BAFTA nominations |publisher=CNN International |date=18 January 2011 |access-date=30 January 2011 }}{{dead link|date=August 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h64mhgpYJ5GEM-CC2KnBapPfxstQ?docId=b333e143c0cb42b0a9894766c5140067|title='The King's Speech' usurps throne as Oscar leader|location=Beverly Hills, CA|agency=Associated Press|date=25 January 2011|access-date=30 January 2011}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> She won her first BAFTA Award, but lost the Academy Award to [[Melissa Leo]] for ''[[The Fighter]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12432378|title=King's Speech sweeps up at Baftas|date=13 February 2011|work=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=13 February 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110213093656/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12432378| archive-date=13 February 2011| url-status=live}}</ref>

Bonham Carter signed to play author [[Enid Blyton]] in the [[BBC Four]] television [[Biographical film|biopic]], ''[[Enid (film)|Enid]]''. It was the first depiction of Blyton's life on the screen; she starred with [[Matthew Macfadyen]] and [[Denis Lawson]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4949678/Helena-Bonham-Carter-to-play-Enid-Blyton-in-new-BBC-biopic.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4949678/Helena-Bonham-Carter-to-play-Enid-Blyton-in-new-BBC-biopic.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Helena Bonham Carter to play Enid Blyton in new BBC biopic |date=7 March 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London | first1=Urmee | last1=Khan | access-date=4 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She received her first Television [[BAFTA]] Nomination for Best Actress, for ''Enid''. In 2010, she starred with [[Freddie Highmore]] in the [[Nigel Slater]] biopic ''[[Toast (film)|Toast]]'', which was filmed in the [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]]<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/film-news/2010/06/23/helena-bonham-carter-to-film-new-movie-toast-in-birmingham-and-black-country-65233-26705223/ | title = Helena Bonham Carter to film new movie Toast in Birmingham and Black Country | date = 23 June 2010 | work = Birmingham Post | access-date = 24 August 2010 | archive-date = 3 January 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110103054044/http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/film-news/2010/06/23/helena-bonham-carter-to-film-new-movie-toast-in-birmingham-and-black-country-65233-26705223/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> and received a gala at the 2011 [[Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news | url = https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/kings-speech-toast-sacrifice-galas-74379 | title = 'The King's Speech,' 'Toast,' 'Sacrifice' Get Galas in Berlin | date = 21 January 2011 | work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] | access-date = 13 March 2011 | first = Scott | last = Roxborough | archive-date = 29 June 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629171431/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kings-speech-toast-sacrifice-galas-74379 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20110122 | title = Toast at the Berlin Film Festival | work = [[Berlin International Film Festival]] | publisher = Berlin Film Festival | access-date = 13 March 2011 | archive-date = 11 February 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110211020246/http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20110122 | url-status = dead }}</ref> She received the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year from [[Britannia Awards|BAFTA LA]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://cineuropa.org/2011/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=207175| title = Bonham-Carter to receive BAFTA LA honour| work = [[Cineuropa]]| publisher = Berlin Film Festival| access-date = 21 July 2011| archive-date = 7 April 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120407111652/http://cineuropa.org/2011/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=207175| url-status = live}}</ref>

[[File:Helena Bonham Carter (Berlin Film Festival 2011).jpg|thumb|upright|Bonham Carter at the [[2011 Berlin International Film Festival]]]]

In 2012, she appeared as the eccentric, jilted bride [[Miss Havisham]]—one of the most potent figures in Victorian gothic fiction—in [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]]'s [[Great Expectations (2012 film)|adaptation]] of the [[Charles Dickens]] novel ''[[Great Expectations]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9712167/Great-Expectations-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9712167/Great-Expectations-review.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Great Expectations, review|access-date=9 March 2013 | location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Robbie|last=Collin|date=29 November 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Gothic expectations: look at Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham|author-first1=Andrew|author-last1=Pulver|date=4 November 2011|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/nov/04/helena-bonham-carter-miss-havisham |access-date=16 August 2021 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816193000/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/nov/04/helena-bonham-carter-miss-havisham |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2012, she appeared in [[Rufus Wainwright]]'s [[music video]] for his single "Out of the Game", featured on the album of [[Out of the Game|the same name]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a374589/rufus-wainwright-teams-with-helena-bonham-carter-in-new-video.html|title=Rufus Wainwright teams with Helena Bonham Carter in new video|work=Digital Spy|first=Robert|last=Copsey|date=3 April 2012|access-date=3 April 2012|archive-date=11 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911154226/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a374589/rufus-wainwright-teams-with-helena-bonham-carter-in-new-video.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She co-starred in a [[Les Misérables (2012 film)|film adaptation]] of the musical ''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]'', released in 2012. She played the role of [[Madame Thénardier]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/official-russell-crowe-helena-bomham-carter-in-les-miserables/ |title=Official: Russell Crowe & Helena Bomham Carter in ''Les Misérables'' |work=First Showing |first=Ethan |last=Anderton |date=8 September 2011 |access-date=9 September 2011 |archive-date=15 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915083905/http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/official-russell-crowe-helena-bomham-carter-in-les-miserables/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

She also appeared in a short film directed by [[Roman Polanski]] for the clothing brand [[Prada]]. The short was entitled ''[[A Therapy]]'' and she appeared as a patient of [[Ben Kingsley]]'s therapist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prada.com/en/a-therapy |title=Prada presents ''A Therapy'' |work=[[Prada]] |access-date=21 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525010913/http://www.prada.com/en/a-therapy |archive-date=25 May 2012 }}</ref>

In 2013, Bonham Carter appeared in ''[[The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet]]'', an adaptation of [[Reif Larsen]]'s book ''[[The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/helena-bonham-carter-young-and-prodigious-spivet/|title=Casting: Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates Star in ''The Young and Prodigious Spivet''|work=Collider|first=Dave|last=Trumbore|date=16 May 2012|access-date=17 May 2012|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131710/http://collider.com/helena-bonham-carter-young-and-prodigious-spivet/166864/|url-status=live}}</ref> 

In 2013, she played Red Harrington, a peg-legged brothel madam, who assists Reid and Tonto in locating Cavendish, in the movie ''[[The Lone Ranger (2013 film)|The Lone Ranger]]''. Also that year, Bonham Carter narrated poetry for ''The Love Book App'', an interactive anthology of love literature developed by [[Allie Byrne Esiri]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iliterature.net/thelovebook/#the-actors |title=The Love Book App |publisher=Iliterature.net |access-date=26 August 2014 |archive-date=23 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923094407/http://www.iliterature.net/thelovebook/#the-actors |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also 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]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://inthemixxshow.com/3366/fall-season-2013-episode-5 |title=Fall Season 2013: Episode 5 |work=In the Mixx |access-date=26 August 2014 |archive-date=30 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930140854/http://inthemixxshow.com/3366/fall-season-2013-episode-5 |url-status=live }}</ref> She played the Fairy Godmother in the 2015 [[Cinderella (2015 American film)|live-action re-imagining]] of [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/helena-bonham-carter-boards-cinderella-572595|title=Helena Bonham Carter to Play Fairy Godmother in Disney's 'Cinderella' (Exclusive)|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Borys|last=Kit|date=20 June 2013|access-date=22 June 2013|archive-date=24 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624022213/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/helena-bonham-carter-boards-cinderella-572595|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2016, Bonham Carter reprised her role of the Red Queen in ''[[Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016 film)|Alice Through the Looking Glass]]''. In June 2018, she starred in a spin-off of the ''[[Ocean's Trilogy|Ocean's Eleven]]'' trilogy, titled ''[[Ocean's 8]]'', alongside [[Sandra Bullock]], [[Cate Blanchett]], [[Anne Hathaway]], and [[Sarah Paulson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/helena-bonham-carter-elizabeth-banks-mindy-kaling-sandra-bullocks-all-female-oceans-eleven-a7074011.html|title=That all-female Ocean's Eleven cast list adds three big names|date=10 June 2016|website=The Independent|access-date=10 June 2016|archive-date=11 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611120645/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/helena-bonham-carter-elizabeth-banks-mindy-kaling-sandra-bullocks-all-female-oceans-eleven-a7074011.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She plays an older [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]]—whom Bonham Carter knew in person through her uncle [[Mark Bonham Carter|Mark]]<ref name="murison20191102">{{Cite news |last=Murison |first=Krissi |date=2 November 2019 |title=Helena Bonham Carter interview: talking toyboys and tiaras with The Crown's Princess Margaret |work=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/helena-bonham-carter-interview-talking-toyboys-and-tiaras-with-the-crowns-princess-margaret-xzqh9fcq9 |access-date=8 June 2021 |issn=0140-0460 |url-access=limited |archive-date=18 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918053912/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-interview-talking-toyboys-and-tiaras-with-the-crowns-princess-margaret-xzqh9fcq9 |url-status=live }}</ref>—for the [[Netflix]] series ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'', replacing [[Vanessa Kirby]], who played a younger version for the first two seasons. Her performance earned her nominations for the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series]], the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]], the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress]], the [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series]] and the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series]]. She was also a part of the ensemble cast that won the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series]] in 2019 and 2020. In 2020, Bonham Carter starred as Eudoria Holmes in the [[Netflix]] film ''[[Enola Holmes (film)|Enola Holmes]]'', which is based on the Sherlock Holmes adaptation, ''[[The Enola Holmes Mysteries]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=23 September 2020 |author=Mary Sollosi |title=Helena Bonham Carter talks putting a twist on a classic with 'Enola Holmes' |url=https://ew.com/movies/helena-bonham-carter-enola-holmes-interview/ |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=25 October 2020 |archive-date=15 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015145600/https://ew.com/movies/helena-bonham-carter-enola-holmes-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Personal life==
In August 2008, four of Bonham Carter's relatives were killed in a [[safari]] bus crash in South Africa,<ref name="relative">{{Cite news|first=Heidi |last=Blake |title=Helena Bonham Carter's relatives killed in 75mph safari crash |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/8119985/Helena-Bonham-Carters-relatives-killed-in-75mph-safari-crash.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/8119985/Helena-Bonham-Carters-relatives-killed-in-75mph-safari-crash.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=10 November 2010 |date=23 August 2008 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> and she was given indefinite leave from filming ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', returning later to complete filming.<ref>{{cite web |title=Terminator Salvation Halts For Bonham Carter |url=http://filmonic.com/terminator-salvation-halts-bonham-carter |date=24 August 2008 |work=Filmonic |access-date=25 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080826084600/http://filmonic.com/terminator-salvation-halts-bonham-carter |archive-date=26 August 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In early October 2008, Bonham Carter became the first [[patron]] of the charity Action Duchenne, the national charity established to support parents and sufferers of [[Duchenne muscular dystrophy]].<ref>[http://www.actionduchenne.org/viewarticle?news=290 "Action Duchenne patron honoured with CBE"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212202207/http://www.actionduchenne.org/viewarticle?news=290 |date=12 February 2012 }}. Action Duchenne. Retrieved 7 May 2012</ref>

In August 2014, Bonham Carter was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'' opposing [[Scottish independence]] in the run-up to September's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories |work=The Guardian |date=7 August 2014 |access-date=26 August 2014 |archive-date=26 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626215319/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2016, Bonham Carter said she was keen on the UK remaining in the [[European Union]] in regard to the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|referendum]] on that issue.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/eu-referendum-brexit-remain-who-do-celebrities-support-david-beckham-jk-rowling-a7094751.html|title=The celebrities that support Brexit (and the ones backing Remain)|work=The Independent|first=Roisin|last=O'Connor|date=23 March 2019|access-date=24 March 2019|archive-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027024833/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/eu-referendum-brexit-remain-who-do-celebrities-support-david-beckham-jk-rowling-a7094751.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022 Bonham Carter was appointed to the honorary position of the [[London Library]]'s president, making her their first female president. She has been a member of the London Library since 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/the-london-library-appoints-bonham-carter-as-first-female-president|title=The London Library appoints Bonham Carter as first female president|website=The Bookseller|access-date=6 February 2023|archive-date=6 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206060338/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/the-london-library-appoints-bonham-carter-as-first-female-president|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Relationships===
In 1994, Bonham Carter and [[Kenneth Branagh]] met while filming ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]''. They began an affair while Branagh was still married to [[Emma Thompson]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10443818/Emma-Thompsons-revenge-served-with-stellar-sophistication.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10443818/Emma-Thompsons-revenge-served-with-stellar-sophistication.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Emma Thompson's revenge served with stellar sophistication|last=Cooper|first=Glenda|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=12 November 2013|access-date=10 June 2018|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At the time, Thompson's career was soaring, while Branagh was struggling to make a success of his first big-budget film.<ref name=":0" /> Following the affair, Branagh and Thompson divorced in 1995.<ref>{{cite news |title=Emma Thompson Talks Kenneth Branagh's Alleged Affair With Helena Bonham Carter |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emma-thompson-kenneth-branagh-affair_n_4261680 |access-date=24 July 2019 |work=Huffington Post |archive-date=5 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805175527/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emma-thompson-kenneth-branagh-affair_n_4261680 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1999, after five years together, Bonham Carter and Branagh separated.<ref name="forgave">{{cite news|last1=Ravitz|first1=Justin|title=Emma Thompson: I Forgave Helena Bonham Carter for Kenneth Branagh Affair That Ended Our Marriage|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/emma-thompson-i-forgave-helena-bonham-carter-for-kenneth-branagh-affair-that-ended-our-marriage-20131211|magazine=[[Us Weekly]]|date=12 November 2013|access-date=4 January 2015|archive-date=12 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112234915/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/emma-thompson-i-forgave-helena-bonham-carter-for-kenneth-branagh-affair-that-ended-our-marriage-20131211|url-status=live}}</ref>

Thompson has said she has "no hard feelings" towards Bonham Carter, calling her affair with Branagh "blood under the bridge".<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/love-actually-role-by-emma-thompson-inspired-by-real-life-heartbreak-with-kenneth-branagh-2018-2|title=Emma Thompson said her heartbroken performance in ''Love Actually'' was inspired by real-life cheating by Kenneth Branagh|work=[[Business Insider]]|first=Carrie|last=Wittmer|date=28 February 2018|access-date=10 June 2018|archive-date=15 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115212332/https://www.businessinsider.com/love-actually-role-by-emma-thompson-inspired-by-real-life-heartbreak-with-kenneth-branagh-2018-2|url-status=live}}</ref> She explained: "You can't hold on to anything like that. It's pointless. I haven't got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago. She's a wonderful woman."<ref name=":1" /> Thompson, Branagh, and Bonham Carter all later went on to appear in the ''Harry Potter'' series (none of them shared any scenes); Thompson and Bonham Carter both appeared in ''Order of the Phoenix''.

In 2001, Bonham Carter began a relationship with American director [[Tim Burton]], whom she met while filming ''[[Planet of the Apes (2001 film)|Planet of the Apes]]''. Burton cast her in a number of his other films, including ''[[Big Fish (film)|Big Fish]]'', ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', ''[[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', and ''[[Dark Shadows (film)|Dark Shadows]]''. After their separation, Bonham Carter said, "It might be easier to work together without being together anymore. He always only cast me with great embarrassment."<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/helena-bonham-carter-i-wanted-to-put-handle-with-care-tape-on-my-forehead-when-tim-and-i-split-a3238746.html|title=Helena Bonham Carter: 'I wanted to put 'handle with care' tape on my forehead when Tim and I split'|work=[[The Evening Standard]]|first=Alistair|last=Foster|date=3 May 2016|access-date=10 June 2018|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141422/https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/helena-bonham-carter-i-wanted-to-put-handle-with-care-tape-on-my-forehead-when-tim-and-i-split-a3238746.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Mill House, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire - geograph-4556522-by-Oswald-Bertram.jpg|thumb|right|Mill House in Oxfordshire, bought by Bonham Carter in 2006]]
Bonham Carter and Burton lived in adjoining houses in [[Belsize Park]], London. She owned one of the houses; Burton later bought the other, and they connected the two. In 2006, they bought the [[Mill House and The Wharf, Sutton Courtenay|Mill House]] in [[Sutton Courtenay]], [[Oxfordshire]].<ref name="Mill House"/> It was previously leased by her grandmother, [[Violet Bonham Carter]], and owned by her great-grandfather [[H. H. Asquith]].<ref name="Mill House">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1513815/Bonham-Carter-buys-back-family-heritage-for-2.9m.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1513815/Bonham-Carter-buys-back-family-heritage-for-2.9m.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Bonham Carter buys back family heritage for £2.9m|access-date=11 January 2013 | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|first=Amy|last=Iggulden|date=24 March 2006}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Honoured |agency=Press Association |newspaper=[[The Oxford Times]] |date=23 February 2012 |page=34 }}</ref>

Bonham Carter and Burton have a son and daughter together.<ref>[https://movies.yahoo.com/person/helena-bonham-carter/biography.html "Helena Bonham Carter- Biography"]. Yahoo.com. Retrieved 7 May 2012. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622154408/http://movies.yahoo.com/person/helena-bonham-carter/biography.html |date=22 June 2012 }}</ref><ref name="nell">{{Cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter Reveals Her 7-Month-Old's Name |url=https://people.com/parents/helena-bonham-carter-reveals-her-7-month-olds-name/ |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=13 May 2021 |date=7 August 2008 |first=Pete |last=Norman |archive-date=2 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602190937/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20217444,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="JJ">{{cite web |title=Helena Bonham Carter Releases Daughter's Name |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood_jew/article/helena_bonham_carter_jewish_mother_20080730 |date=30 July 2008 |newspaper=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]] |access-date=31 July 2008 |archive-date=26 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026074946/http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywood_jew/article/helena_bonham_carter_jewish_mother_20080730 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She told ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' of her struggles with [[infertility]] and the difficulties she had during her pregnancies. She said that before the conception of her daughter, she and Burton had been trying for a baby for two years and, although they conceived naturally, they were considering [[in vitro fertilisation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/3351623/Helena-Bonham-Carter-I-would-have-tried-anything-even-IVF.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/3351623/Helena-Bonham-Carter-I-would-have-tried-anything-even-IVF.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Helena Bonham Carter: 'I would have tried anything, even IVF'|newspaper=The Telegraph|first=Andrea|last=Manzi-Davies|date=15 October 2007|access-date=5 June 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On 23 December 2014, the two announced that they had "separated amicably" earlier that year.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton Split |url=http://www.people.com/article/helena-bonham-carter-tim-burton-separate-split |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=23 December 2014 |date=23 December 2014 |first=Melody |last=Chiu |archive-date=23 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223221624/http://www.people.com/article/helena-bonham-carter-tim-burton-separate-split |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/609638/tim-burton-helena-bonham-carter-step-out-together-with-their-kids-after-split-announcement|title=Tim Burton & Helena Bonham Carter Step Out Together With Their Kids After Split Announcement|website=[[E! Online]]|first=Corinne|last=Heller|date=28 December 2014|access-date=29 December 2014|archive-date=30 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230041423/http://www.eonline.com/news/609638/tim-burton-helena-bonham-carter-step-out-together-with-their-kids-after-split-announcement|url-status=live}}</ref> Of the separation, Bonham Carter told ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'': "Everyone always says you have to be strong and have a stiff upper lip, but it's okay to be fragile. ...You've got to take very small steps, and sometimes you won't know where to go next because you've lost yourself." She added: "With divorce, you go through massive grief—it is a death of a relationship, so it's utterly bewildering. Your identity, everything, changes."<ref name=":2" />

Since 2018, Bonham Carter has been in a relationship with art historian Rye Dag Holmboe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2021 |title=I Want What They Have: Helena Bonham Carter and Rye Dag Holmboe |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/i-want-what-they-have-helena-bonham-carter-and-rye-dag-holmboe |access-date=10 September 2022 |website=Vogue|archive-date=10 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910203220/https://www.vogue.com/article/i-want-what-they-have-helena-bonham-carter-and-rye-dag-holmboe |url-status=live }}</ref> Holmboe is 21 years her junior. Regarding their age gap, Bonham Carter told ''[[The Times]]'' in 2019: "Everybody ages at a different rate. My boyfriend is unbelievably mature. He's an old soul in a young body, what more could I want? People are slightly frightened of older women, but he isn't. Women can be very powerful when they're older."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Murison |first=Krissi |date=2 November 2019 |title=Helena Bonham Carter interview: talking toyboys and tiaras with The Crown's Princess Margaret |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/helena-bonham-carter-interview-talking-toyboys-and-tiaras-with-the-crowns-princess-margaret-xzqh9fcq9 |url-status=live |work=[[The Times]] |issn=0140-0460 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918053912/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-interview-talking-toyboys-and-tiaras-with-the-crowns-princess-margaret-xzqh9fcq9 |archive-date=18 September 2022 |access-date=10 September 2022 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Public image==
Bonham Carter is known for her unconventional and eccentric sense of fashion.<ref>{{cite news|last=Derschowitz|first=Jessica|title=Will Helena Bonham Carter bring her eccentric style to the Oscars?|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-helena-bonham-carter-bring-her-eccentric-style-to-the-oscars/|access-date=10 June 2011|newspaper=CBS News|date=18 February 2011|archive-date=20 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220005222/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20033367-10391698.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bonham Carter in normal dress shock at Oscars|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/02/28/11/bonham-carter-normal-dress-shock-oscars|access-date=10 June 2011|newspaper=ABS–CBN News|date=28 February 2011|agency=Agence France-Presse|archive-date=3 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303070939/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/02/28/11/bonham-carter-normal-dress-shock-oscars|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[British Vogue]]'' described her dark style in clothing and acting as "quirky and irreverent".<ref>{{Cite web|last=ALLAIRE|first=CHRISTIAN|date=27 May 2021|title=Helena Bonham Carter Is The Red Carpet Rebel Hollywood Needs|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/helena-bonham-carter-red-carpet-style|access-date=5 January 2022|website=British Vogue|archive-date=5 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105171623/https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/helena-bonham-carter-red-carpet-style|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' named her on its 2010 Best-Dressed List<ref name=vanity/> and she was selected by [[Marc Jacobs]] to be the face of his Autumn/Winter 2011 advertising campaign.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bergin|first=Olivia|title=Helena Bonham Carter models for Marc Jacobs|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8565419/Helena-Bonham-Carter-models-for-Marc-Jacobs.html|access-date=10 June 2011|newspaper=Telegraph|date=9 June 2011|location=London|archive-date=12 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612112510/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8565419/Helena-Bonham-Carter-models-for-Marc-Jacobs.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She has cited [[Vivienne Westwood]] and [[Marie Antoinette]] as her main style influences.<ref name=vanity>{{cite magazine|title=2010 International Best-Dressed List|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2010/09/the-international-best-dressed-list-slide-show-201009?slide=31|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=10 June 2011|date=September 2010|archive-date=7 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407063019/http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2010/09/the-international-best-dressed-list-slide-show-201009?slide=31|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2021, Bonham Carter featured in a commercial for British furniture retailer [[Sofology]], taking viewers through the quirks and stylistic flourishes of her home.<ref>{{cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter flaunts her eccentricity in Sofology ad |last=Bold |first=Ben |date=24 May 2021 |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-flaunts-eccentricity-sofology-ad/1716979 |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=Campaign Live |archive-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115212332/https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-flaunts-eccentricity-sofology-ad/1716979 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021, she 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 [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Alice]]", adding, "everywhere I look at home, every view has some reference to ''Alice'': frog footman candlesticks, teacup constructions, a teapot lamp, a chessboard teapot, an oversized pocket watch, undersized doors, bunnies, internal windows that look like mirrors, and mirrors that look like windows".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Helena Bonham Carter on the magic and influence of Alice in Wonderland |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a36058313/helena-bonham-carter-alice-in-wonderland/ |access-date=13 July 2022 |magazine=Harper's Bazaar |archive-date=13 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713183725/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a36058313/helena-bonham-carter-alice-in-wonderland/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Acting credits==
{{main|List of Helena Bonham Carter performances}}

==Accolades and honours==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Helena Bonham Carter}}
Bonham Carter has been the recipient of a [[BAFTA Award]], a [[Critics' Choice Movie Award]], an [[International Emmy Award]] and three [[Screen Actors Guild Award]]s, as well as receiving further nominations for two [[Academy Award]]s, nine [[Golden Globe Award]]s and five [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s. She has received other prestigious awards such as a [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award]] and two [[National Board of Review]] awards.<ref name="KingsSpeech"/>

Bonham Carter was made a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the [[2012 New Year Honours]] list for services to drama,<ref name="CBE">{{cite news |title=Helena Bonham Carter honoured at Buckingham Palace |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17125015 |work=BBC News |date=22 February 2012 |access-date=22 February 2012 |archive-date=22 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222173544/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17125015 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] announced that she had been appointed to Britain's new national [[Holocaust]] Commission in January 2014.<ref name="Dysch">{{cite news | url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/115233/cameron-commits-sacred-vital%E2%80%99-task | title=Cameron commits to 'sacred, vital' task | work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] | date=30 January 2014 | access-date=30 January 2014 | author=Dysch, Marcus | archive-date=2 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095135/http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/115233/cameron-commits-sacred-vital%E2%80%99-task | url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of British actors]]
* [[List of British Academy Award nominees and winners]]
* [[List of Jewish Academy Award winners and nominees]]
* [[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]]
* [[List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories]]

==References==
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