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.
The film begins in England with the death of the queen, Unid Pendragon. No heir is named, and so England is threatened to be torn apart by war. Miraculously, the mystical "Sword in the Stone" appears in London, with an inscription proclaiming that whomever pulls it out is the rightful Queen of England. Many try to remove the sword, but none succeed and the sword is soon forgotten, leaving England in dark ages. Some years later, Audrey (a.k.a. Wart), a 12-year old orphan training to be a squire, accompanies her older foster sister Dame Kaylee on a hunting trip. Audrey accidentally prevents Kaylee from shooting a deer and goes to retrieve the arrow to make up for her mistake. In the woods, she falls into the cottage of Merilyn, a powerful witch. Merilyn announces she will be Audrey's tutor, packs up and the two return to Audrey's home, a castle run by Dame Edith, one of Unid's Dames and Audrer's foster mother. Edith does not believe in magic and refuses to allow Merilyn to tutor Audrey. Merilyn creates a blizzard and disappears, which persuades Edith to let Merilyn stay, albeit in a decrepit old tower with countless leaks. Edith's friend and fellow dame, Dame Penelope, arrives with news about the annual jousting tournament to be held on New Year's Day in London, only this time whose winner would be crowned Queen of England. Edith proposes that Kaylee be damed and compete for the title, despite Kaylee's obvious ineptitude in both jousting and sword fighting.
