Helena Bonham Carter

At 57 years old, Helena Bonham Carter has this physical status:

Career

Bonham Carter, who has no formal acting experience, joined a national writing competition (1979) and used the funds to pay for her entry into the actors' Spotlight directory. She made her debut in a television commercial at the age of 16. She appeared in A Pattern of Roses, a 1983 television film.

Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1986), Bonham Carter's first lead film role, received mixed reviews by critics. Lucy Honeychurch was her breakthrough role in A Room with a View (1985), an E. M. Forster's 1908 film that was shot after Lady Jane but released two months earlier. She 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, A Hazard of Hearts, and John Gield in Getting It Right. According to Roger Ebert, Bonham Carter was originally cast in the role of Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves, but the actor resigned during production due to "the character's intense psychic and physical exposure." Emily Watson, who had been nominated for an Academy Award for her work, was nominated for an Academy Award for her efforts.

Her early films led to her being portrayed as a "corset queen" and "English rose" in pre- and early twentieth century films, particularly in Merchant Ivory films. "I looked, as someone said, like a bloated chipmunk," the photographer claims. Bonham Carter appeared in a dream sequence in the second series of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous as Edina Monsoon's daughter Saffron, who was usually played by Julia Sawalha. Saffron's resemblance to Bonham Carter was mentioned throughout the series.

In a 1996 French film titled Portraits chinois, Bonham Carter, who speaks French fluently, appeared in a film called Portraits chinois. She appeared in Twelfth Night's film version by Trevor Nunn in the same year. Kate Croy's role in the 1997 film adaptation of The Wings of the Dove, which was internationally recognized and won her her first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations was one of her early career's finest moments of her career. Then followed Fight Club in 1999, in which she appeared Marla Singer, a role for which she received the 2000 Empire Award for Best British Actress.

She was included in Maxim in August 2001. When she was first cast as Anne Boleyn in the ITV1 mini-series Henry VIII, she was the second Queen of England; however, her role was limited because she was pregnant with her first child at the time of filming. Lady Tottingham, a wealthy aristocratic spinster, appeared in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Peter Sallis and appears in the Wallace and Gromit collection.

She was a member of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival jury, selecting The Wind That Shakes the Barley as the best film in the country. Bonham Carter and swimwear designer Samantha Sage launched "The Pantaloonies" in May 2006. Bloomin' Bloomers is their first collection of camisoles, mob caps, and bloomers in Victorian style. The pair made Pantaloonies customised jeans, which Bonham Carter describes as "a sort of scrapbook on the bum."

In the final four Harry Potter films (2007–2011), Bonham Carter played the forensic and homicidal dark witch Bellatrix Lestrange. When filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, she mistakenly stuck Matthew Lewis' eardrum when sticking her wand into his ear canal. Bonham Carter's Bellatrix was lauded for his "shining but underused talent." In Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical adaptation, Sweeney Todd's (Johnny Depp) amorous accomplice, she played Mrs. Lovett, a woman portrayed by Burton. For her appearance, Bonham Carter was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress. She was named the Best Actress Award in the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Awards for her role in Sweeney Todd and Conversations With Other Women, as well as another Best Actress award at the 2009 Empire Awards. Bonham Carter appeared in the fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation, portraying a small but important role as a personification of Skynet.

Bonham Carter narrator in the 30 minute animated film version of the best-selling children's book The Gruffalo, which was broadcast on BBC One on December 25, 2009. As the Red Queen of Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, Bonham Carter appeared in Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland as the Red Queen. She appears alongside Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Crispin Glover, and Harry Potter co-star Alan Rickman. The Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen were merged into one. Bonham Carter, along with fellow actresses Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Julie Andrews, and Audrey Hepburn, were among the top ten British Actresses of all time in early 2009.

In the film The King's Speech, Bonham Carter played Queen Elizabeth in 2010. She had received numerous accolades and accolades for her performance as of January 2011, including nominations for Best Actress in a Support Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received her first BAFTA Award, but Melissa Leo for The Fighter received the Academy Award.

In the BBC Four television biopic Enid, Bonham Carter signed to play author Enid Blyton. It was the first film of Blyton's life on film; she appeared with Matthew Macfadyen and Denis Lawson. Enid's first Television BAFTA Nomination was given. She appeared in Freddie Highmore's Negie Slater biopic Toast, which was shot in the West Midlands and received a gala at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. In 2011, she was named BAFTA Los Angeles' Best Artist of the Year.

Miss Havisham, one of Victorian gothic fiction's most popular characters, appeared in Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations in 2012. She appeared in Rufus Wainwright's music video for her single "Out of the Game," which was also on the album of the same name. She appeared in Les Misérables, a film version that was released in 2012. Madame Thénardier was portrayed by her.

Bonham Carter would be seen in the 2013 version (entitled The Young and Provocious T.S.) on May 17, 2012. The Selected Works of T.S. is a satiret reif Larsen's book. Spivet. Her casting was revealed alongside that of Kathy Bates, Kyle Catlett, and Callum Rennie, with Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing. She appeared in a short film directed by Roman Polanski for the clothing brand Prada. The short was titled A Therapy, and she appeared as a patient of Ben Kingsley's therapist.

In the film The Lone Ranger, she played Red Harrington, a peg-legged brothel madam who aids Reid and Tonto in finding Cavendish. Bonham Carter narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an interactive anthology of love literature by Allie Byrne Esiri, in the same year. 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. In the 2015 live-action reimagining of Walt Disney's Cinderella, she appeared as Fairy Godmother.

Bonham Carter reimagined her role as the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass in 2016. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, and Sarah Paulson appeared in a spin-off of the Ocean's Eleven Trilogy in June 2018. Margaret, the Queen's older Princess Margaret, was consulted in person by her uncle Mark for the Netflix series The Crown, replacing Vanessa Kirby, who appeared as a younger version for the first two seasons. In 2020, Bonham Carter appeared as Eudoria Holmes in Netflix's Enola Holmes, which is based on Sherlock Holmes' adaptation The Enola Holmes Mysteries.

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