Which actress voiced the title character in Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'?

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Helena Bonham Carter voiced Emily, the title character in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

Emily is the deceased bride at the center of the 2005 stop-motion fantasy film. She mistakenly becomes engaged to Victor Van Dort after he practices his wedding vows in a forest and places a ring on what he believes is a branch. Bonham Carter’s performance gives Emily both gothic melancholy and comic warmth.

The film was directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson and produced by Burton and Allison Abbate. Johnny Depp voiced Victor, while Emily Watson voiced Victoria Everglot. This cast has led to occasional mix-ups, especially because Depp and Bonham Carter were frequent Burton collaborators and appeared together in several other films.

Corpse Bride was produced by Tim Burton Productions and Laika Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was animated with replacement-style stop motion at 3 Mills Studios in London, using digital still cameras rather than the 35 mm cameras used for The Nightmare Before Christmas. The film premiered at Venice in September 2005 and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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