Biographies: Helena Bonham Carter - Actor

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Helena Bonham Carter is one of Britain's most successful and most versatile actors. Showing her grit and determination from an early age, Carter used her second-place winnings from a poetry competition to place her photo in the "Spotlight" casting directory, which resulted in her getting an agent and her first gig, a commercial, at age 16. She then acted in a made-for-TV movie "A Pattern of Roses" (1983) and was soon cast in "A Room With a View" (1985). She got her first leading role in "Lady Jane" (1986). She proved her versatility in the projects that followed, including "Fight Club" (1999), "Big Fish" (2003), "Sweeney Todd" (2007) and a few "Harry Potter" films. She and husband Tim Burton make a great team, both at home and on set. Burton has directed Carter in five of his films. Carter has never won a major American film award, though she's been nominated for six Emmies and two Oscars, for "The Wings of the Dove" (1997) and "The King's Speech" (2010), for which she won a BAFTA award. The actress has also been honored by the Queen of England with a CBE award after portraying the Queen's mother in "The King's Speech."

• 2 January 2013
• Ines Farag