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Great niece of director Anthony Asquith, Helena Bonham Carter spent her childhood in London and attended one of the best schools in the country, Westminster. She was thirteen when she decided to use the money won in a poetry competition to have her photo appear in an actor directory. She obtained her first contract two years later: a television spot in which she praised the merits of an electrical appliance. It was Trevor Nunn who offered him his first role in the cinema in the period film Lady Jane (1986), evocation of the last days of a Lady ascended to the throne of England before she was beheaded.


His meeting that same year with James Ivory is decisive: he offers her in Room with a View the role of Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman from a good family whose loves are thwarted. The American director finds her for an appearance in Maurice (1987) and in Retour à Howards End (1991). This collaboration with the filmmaker launched his career. Her pale complexion and her Victorian heroine look allow her to appear in the cast of many costume films including Hamlet (1990) and Frankenstein (1994) by Kenneth Branagh, or The Night of the Kings (1996), a production thanks to which she finds Trevor Nunn, the one who started it.


The actress works with prestigious directors, seller of paintings at Woody Allen (Cursed Aphrodite), young woman suffering from a serious illness falling in love in spite of herself for Paul Greengrass (Envole-moi), drug addict object of all fantasies at David Fincher ( Fight club). In 1997, the critics unanimously hailed his performance in The Wings of the Dove, by Iain Softley, a role which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 2001, she played Ari, an evolved primate in The Planet of the Apes, by Tim Burton ... and then became the filmmaker's fiancée and muse.


This relationship behind the camera changes the career of Helena Bonham Carter, who now appears in the cast of all of her husband's hits. Metamorphosed into a witch in Big Fish (2003), mother of the hero of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), macabre partner of Johnny Depp in The Funeral Wedding (2004) and Sweeney Todd, the evil barber of Fleet Street (2007), she is also the Alice in Wonderland adventure, a worldwide box office that exceeds one billion dollars. After playing the head-chopping Red Queen, she joins her husband again on the sets by playing in Dark Shadows (2012). This fantastic adaptation of a series from the 60s allows her to slip into the skin of a psychiatrist, witness to the dysfunctions of the Collins family ... and of its ancestor vampire, Barnabas (Johnny Depp).


Not hesitating to participate in daring projects, she gives the answer to Aaron Eckhart in Conversation (s) avec une femme, independent film using the principle of the split screen throughout its duration, and lends her voice to a dough character. model for the needs of Wallace and Gromit: Mystery of the Were-Rabbit (2005). Now courted by big budget films, she plays a scientist in Terminator Renaissance (2009) and above all, she is the formidable Bellatrix Lestrange from the Harry Potter saga. This faithful Death Eater, a member of Voldemort's close guard, appears in the last four films of the saga, from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - part 2 (2011) .


Equally at home in blockbusters as in dramatic productions, Helena Bonham Carter plays the Queen Mother in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech (Oscar for Best Picture). Her performance, all in restraint, earned her a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category. A versatile actress, in 2011 she signed her greatest critical success, and her greatest box office success (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - part 2). The following year, she filmed again for Burton, Hooper and Branagh in the crazy Dark Shadows, the musical film Les Misérables and the fantastic Cinderella.


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