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Actor: Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter spent her early career in Merchant Ivory period films, in A Room with a View and Howards End, and was in danger of being permanently identified with them.

Fight Club broke it completely. Marla Singer is chaotic, filthy and funny, and the performance recalibrated what she could be offered.

She was nominated for The Wings of the Dove and again for The King’s Speech, and worked repeatedly with Tim Burton across seven films during their relationship.

Her great-grandfather was a British Prime Minister, which is an unusual line in an actor’s biography, and she plays Princess Margaret in The Crown with obvious relish.

Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue sit facing each other in a consulting room.Colin Firth

The King’s Speech (2010) Review

The King's Speech (2010) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A well-made two-hander about a man with a stammer and the unqualified Australian who treated him, which beat The Social Network for Best Picture and Best Director…

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Merlin (1998) film posterHelena Bonham Carter

Merlin (1998)

Merlin is the NBC miniseries that retold the Arthurian legend from the wizard's perspective. Miranda Richardson plays Mab, the old goddess fighting against Christianity's spread through Britain.

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