Age: 60
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Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born May 26, 1966) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, especially period dramas, she is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and five Primetime Emmy Awards. Bonham Carter rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "English rose", a label she was uncomfortable with. She is best known for her eccentric fashion, dark aesthetic, and for often playing quirky women. For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in The King's Speech (2010), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Hamlet (1990), Howards End (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), the Harry Potter series (2007–2011) as Bellatrix Lestrange, Great Expectations (2012) as Miss Havisham, Les Misérables (2012), Cinderella (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Enola Holmes (2020). Her collaborations with director Tim Burton, her former domestic partner, include Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) as Mrs. Lovett, Alice in Wonderland (2010) as the Red Queen, and Dark Shadows (2012). For her role as children's author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her other television films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in seasons three and four of Netflix's The Crown.
Streaming series, a prequel to the James Bond 007 films. S1 follows Bond in the Royal Marine Commandos, after his time in the Navy. Whilst there he connects with Alec Trevelyan, himself recently recruited, who helps James settle in to his new environment. Whilst Bond’s Roguish charm and unpredictability is there, creating tensions with superiors, he’s too valuable when it comes to the mission to be stood down. This conflict leads to his individuality being recognised elsewhere……. S2: James and Alec, recruited to the SBS, are involved in more increasingly covert and dangerous missions. Spectre and it’s many tributary organisations, such as Quantum are revealed as significant players in funding and initiating the military and terrorist threats to which our protagonist’s unit is assigned to nullify. In almost single-handedly thwarting a spectre agents attempt to destroy a British submarine with nuclear warheads aboard, James’ gets himself noticed…. S3: James Bond is assigned to shadow agent 006, Bill Fairbanks, at MI6. Fairbanks is not long from retirement, has seen and done it all, his attention to detail and impeccable intuition make him the perfect tutor and sounding board for James. Bill soon becomes a father figure to the new agent, orphaned as a boy. By the end of our story Bill is gone and Alec, having been under similar training has replaced him as 006. Bond is sent to win a game of poker, having been assigned the Codename that will come to define him…..007.
