<P> The 2010 live - action film Alice in Wonderland , fashioned as a sequel to the novel , features Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen . Bonham Carter 's head was digitally increased three times its original size on screen . Bonham Carter 's character is a combination of the Red Queen , the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts . From the original Red Queen , this character gets only a relationship to the White Queen . Here the Red Queen is the older sister of the White Queen , and is jealous of her sister , whom her subjects genuinely love . From the original John Tenniel illustrations of the Duchess , she gets a massive head in proportion to her body and a retinue of frog footmen . The White Queen theorizes that the movie 's Red Queen has a tumor pressing against her brain , explaining both her large head and her deranged behaviour . Most of her characteristics are taken from the Queen of Hearts , including : </P>
<P> The 2010 live - action film Alice in Wonderland , fashioned as a sequel to the novel , features Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen . Bonham Carter 's head was digitally increased three times its original size on screen . Bonham Carter 's character is a combination of the Red Queen , the Duchess and the Queen of Hearts . From the original Red Queen , this character gets only a relationship to the White Queen . Here the Red Queen is the older sister of the White Queen , and is jealous of her sister , whom her subjects genuinely love . From the original John Tenniel illustrations of the Duchess , she gets a massive head in proportion to her body and a retinue of frog footmen . The White Queen theorizes that the movie 's Red Queen has a tumor pressing against her brain , explaining both her large head and her deranged behaviour . Most of her characteristics are taken from the Queen of Hearts , including : </P>
who played the red queen in alice in wonderland
who played the red queen in alice in wonderland
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter