Born on May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, UK.

As the world waits anxiously for its inexorable transition into the 21st century, Helena Bonham-Carter is still hoping to claw her way out of the 19th.

Of course, it's a Catch-22 situation: just as you need to already have credit to get a credit card, Helena's corset-girdled film credits to date seem to have doomed her to forever being the Merchant-Ivory poster girl. But even if you've never seen one of her films, her gothically aristocratic, Edward Goreyesque looks alone tell you not to expect her in the next Die Hard sequel. One glance at Pamela Anderson and a casting director knows immediately to get her into some leather or rubber as quickly as possible; one look at Helena and the costuming team comes running in with a corset. And no matter how much she contrives to change that image off-camera by dressing down, belching, cursing, and so on, no one's buying it. Which in turn makes her seem even more the tragic, gothic figure we all want her to be.

Also sprach Golem.
(More recent commentary below)

Helena Recast
Wednesday, May 1, 2002
It might be a wee early to say for sure, but I just saw Novocaine, and I’m getting the sense that Helena Bonham-Carter might be getting typecast again — this time as the mercenary, darkly witty, hot-but-disheveled “Marla Singer” character she played in Fight Club.... Read more

What a Difference a Couple Years Make
Wednesday, August 1, 2001
Gotta hand it to her — like Houdini, Helena Bonham-Carter somehow managed to unshackle herself from period fare like Frankenstein, Twelfth Night and Wings of the Dove and begin redefining her niche in Hollywood with films like Fight Club and Planet of the Apes. Not an easy feat for an actress as heavily typecast as she was.... Read more

Film

• Stand by Love (2008)
• Eleanor & Colette (2007) .... Colette
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) .... Bellatrix Lestrange
• Sweeney Todd (2007) .... Mrs. Lovett
• Sixty Six (2006) .... Esther Reuben
• Stand by Love (2006)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) .... Mrs. Bucket
• Conversations with Other Women (2005) .... Woman
• Corpse Bride (2005) .... Corpse Bride [voice]
• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) .... Lady Campanula Tottington [voice]
• Big Fish (2003) .... Jenny/The Witch
• The Heart of Me (2002) .... Dinah
• Football (2001) .... Mum
• Novocaine (2001) .... Susan
• Planet of the Apes (2001) .... Ari
• Till Human Voices Wake Us (2001) .... Ruby
• Carnivale (1999) .... Milly
• Fight Club (1999) .... Marla Singer [nudity is computer-generated]
• Women Talking Dirty (1999) .... Cora
• The Revengers' Comedies (1998) .... Karen Knightly
• The Theory of Flight (1998)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) .... Rosemary
• The Revengers' Comedies (1997)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997) .... Kate Croy
• Portraits chinois (1996; aka “Shadow Play”) .... Ada
• Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996) .... Olivia
• Margaret's Museum (1995) .... Margaret MacNeil
• Mighty Aphrodite (1995) .... Amanda
• Francesco (1994; Italian/German — aka “St. Francis of Assisi”) .... Chiara
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) .... Elizabeth
• Howards End (1992) .... Helen Schlegel
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (1992) .... Caroline Abbott
• Hamlet (1990; British/French) .... Ophelia
• Getting It Right (1989) .... Minerva Munday
• Lady Jane (1987; British) .... Lady Jane Grey
• Maurice (1987; British) .... Young Lady at Cricket Match
• The Vision (1987)
• A Room with a View (1986; British) .... Lucy Honeychurch
• La Maschera (1988 — aka “The Mask”)

• Live From Baghdad (2002; HBO) .... Ingrid Formanek

• Magnificent 7 (2005) .... Maggi
• Henry VIII (2003) .... Anne Boleyn
• The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999) .... Herself
• Mystery! A Dark-Adapted Eye (1995) .... Faith Severn
• Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) .... Marina Oswald
• A Hazard of Hearts (1987)

• Merlin (1998) .... Morgan Le Fey

• The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2002) .... Herself
• Absolutely Fabulous: “Hospital” (1994) .... Saffron
• Dancing Queen (1993) .... Pandora/Julie
• Miami Vice: “Theresa” (1987) .... Theresa
• Miami Vice: “The Savage” (1987)

• Helena Bonham Carter Gets Wicked
  Entertainment Weekly (Jul 17, 2007)
  Ugly teeth, dueling with Sirius Black, causing temporary deafness — all in a day’s work for Harry Potter’s Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Carter plays sorceress in ‘Potter’ film
  Associated Press (Jul 9, 2007)
  Some actors might balk at being cast as an evil witch. Not Helena Bonham Carter.
• Super BonBon
  Student.Com: Culture
  After years of a cult status, the bewitching Helena Bonham Carter threatens to become a star without rescinding her throne as the Corset Queen.
• Room With a Shrew
  Student.Com: Culture
  Helena Bonham Carter stars as a modernist femme fatale in an unexpectedly erotic interpretation of Henry James' The Wings of the Dove.
• Screen
  People Weekly (11/17/97)
  Review of The Wings of the Dove
• Chatter
  People Weekly (12/4/95)
  A strange romance...

Cyber Temples

• Helena Bonham-Carter Nude Celebrity Movie Reviews
  Mr. Skin
  Bio, filmography, and nude stills and clips from her films
• Helena Bonham-Carter TV Schedule
  TV Now

Miscellaneous

• Helena Bonham-Carter Filmography
  Internet Movie Database
  Always up-to-date filmography
• Helena Bonham-Carter
  Wikipedia
  Helena Bonham-Carter in wikireality