British actress Helena Bonham Carter is to the manor
born in terms of both her patrician bearing and her acting skill.
To a lineage noteworthy for prominent politicians as well as motion-picture
credentials, Bonham Carter adds a striking, pre-Raphaelite beauty
that has fit seamlessly with the period dress, speech, and manner
needed for her earliest, career-making roles. Her first success
came on screen, rather than the stage, starring as the ill-fated
Lady Jane Grey, the teenaged British queen, in Lady Jane, while
her fevered romanticism in the Merchant-Ivory production of A
Room with a View nearly typecast her as a Victorian ingenue. But
Bonham Carter has proven an intelligent, risk-taking actress who's
shown a willingness to invert or lampoon her signature gentility
and sought mold-cracking contemporary roles under the helm of
directors including Woody Allen. Helena
Bonham Carter films include
The Wings of the Dove
A Room With a View
Howards End
Hamlet
Mighty Aphrodite
Merry War
Merlin
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