Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#482
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Helena Bonham Carter represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Helena is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Helena Bonham Carter appears in 56 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Helena. Fight Club is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Philip Barantini, Jennifer Perrott, James Hawes and others, Helena Bonham Carter helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Fight Club (1999) as Marla Singer · Fight Club (1999) as Marla Singer · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Bellatrix Lestrange
Career snapshot
Ranked #482 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
56
1986–2026
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Fight Club
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.8
Fight Club
Most frequent director
Tim Burton
7 films together
Longest collaboration
7×
With Tim Burton
Most common genre
Drama
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
7.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Fight Club, Fight Club, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Maurice, A Room with a View.
Most productive era
2010s
19 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.22 films | 7.55 films | 7.13 films | 6.99 films | 6.93 films |
| Action | — | — | 5.92 films | 6.53 films | 6.91 film |
| Thriller | — | 8.82 films | 6.03 films | 6.31 film | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.84 films | 6.63 films | 6.72 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.01 film | 7.01 film | 7.23 films |
| Romance | 7.22 films | 6.82 films | 7.02 films | 6.62 films | 6.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.51 film | 7.21 film | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lucy Honeychurch.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999Fight Club
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Enola Holmes 3
The current state of the argument, as Eudoria Holmes.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
56 of 56 films
as Marla Singer
Directed by David Fincher
as Marla Singer
Directed by David Fincher
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Bellatrix Lestrange
Directed by David Yates
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 64 titles · 65 total credits · active 1986–2026
The Land of Sometimes
2026 · Mediocris (voice)
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026 · Self
Enola Holmes 3
2026 · Eudoria Holmes
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
2026 · TV · Lady Caterham
Four Letters of Love
2025 · Margaret Gore
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025 · TV · Self
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Self
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024 · Self
Bluey Book Reads
2024 · TV · Reader
The Velveteen Rabbit
2023 · Wise Horse (voice)
One Life
2023 · Babi Winton
Nolly
2023 · TV · Noele 'Nolly' Gordon
Enola Holmes 2
2022 · Eudoria Holmes
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022 · Self
The House
2022 · Jen (voice)
Dragonheart: Vengeance
2021 · Siveth (voice)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Enola Holmes
2020 · Eudoria Holmes
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020 · Lady Devilla
Clown
2020 · Narrator (voice)
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020 · Self - Readings
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
2019 · Narrator (voice)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · TV · All-Maudra Mayrin (voice)
Ocean's Eight
2018 · Rose Weil
The defining work
#1
Marla Singer
Fight Club (1999)
Performance score9.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marla Singer gives Helena Bonham Carter a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Marla Singer
Fight Club (1999)
Performance score8.8
Fight Club asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marla Singer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Narrator (voice)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (2019)
Performance score8.6
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Margaret Conroy (voice)
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)
Performance score8.2
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Margaret Conroy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Marla Singer
Start here. Fight Club is the clearest statement of what Helena Bonham Carter does — accessible, 139 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Helena at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Fight Club (1999)
Same director as Fight Club, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Fight Club — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (2019)
Same director as Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Burton
Director
7 films together
Notably Big Fish
David Yates
Director
4 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
James Ivory
Director
3 films together
Notably Maurice
David Fincher
Director
2 films together
Notably Fight Club
Tom Hooper
Director
2 films together
Notably The King's Speech
Kenneth Branagh
Director
2 films together
Notably Cinderella
Harry Bradbeer
Director
2 films together
Notably Enola Holmes 2
Franco Zeffirelli
Director
1 film together
Notably Hamlet
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Nick Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Terminator Salvation
SJ Clarkson
Director
1 film together
Notably Toast
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably Great Expectations
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Gore Verbinski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lone Ranger
David Hare
Director
1 film together
Notably Turks & Caicos
Sarah Gavron
Director
1 film together
Notably Suffragette
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bille August
Director
1 film together
Notably 55 Steps
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably Ocean's Eight
Matt Lipsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Paloma Baeza
Director
1 film together
Notably The House
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
James Hawes
Director
1 film together
Notably One Life
Jennifer Perrott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Velveteen Rabbit
Philip Barantini
Director
1 film together
Notably Enola Holmes 3
Jared Leto
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Edward Norton
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Brad Pitt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Meat Loaf
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Zach Grenier
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Holt McCallany
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Eion Bailey
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Richmond Arquette
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
David Andrews
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
George Maguire
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Eugenie Bondurant
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Christina Cabot
Actor
1 film together
Notably Fight Club
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Burton
Director
7 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 7 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Big FishDavid Yates
Director
4 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2James Ivory
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MauriceDavid Fincher
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fight ClubTom Hooper
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The King's SpeechHarry Bradbeer
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Enola Holmes 2Kenneth Branagh
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
CinderellaJames Hawes
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One LifeEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to HogwartsSarah Gavron
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuffragetteNick Park
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitPaloma Baeza
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HouseGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ocean's EightPhilip Barantini
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Enola Holmes 3Jennifer Perrott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Velveteen RabbitJean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Young and Prodigious T.S. SpivetBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate EventsBille August
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
55 StepsJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice Through the Looking GlassSJ Clarkson
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ToastFranco Zeffirelli
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HamletMike Newell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Great ExpectationsMatt Lipsey
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for ChristmasDavid Hare
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Turks & CaicosGore Verbinski
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lone RangerMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Terminator SalvationSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
One Life
as Babi Winton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Maurice
as Young Lady at Cricket Match (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Helena Bonham Carter has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.9 | 8.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #494 of 681 | #7 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.4 |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | David Fincher | Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Frank Darabont |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Screen presence, Rewatchability | Screen presence, Drama, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 1999–1999 | 1994–2008 |
| Most iconic role | Marla Singer — Fight Club | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding — The Shawshank Redemption |
| Most rewatchable film | Fight Club | The Shawshank Redemption |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 3 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
David Fincher
Shared collections
Best Psychological Thrillers, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
David Fincher · Brad Pitt
Morgan Freeman edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
40 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
22 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Land of Sometimes
as Mediocris (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Enola Holmes
as Eudoria Holmes
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fight Club
as Marla Singer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Lone Ranger
as Red Harrington
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
as Margaret Conroy (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Bellatrix Lestrange
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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