Today is Helena Bonham Carter’s 44th birthday. We here at Helena Fan wish her the best for today, as well as the rest of the year

A huge thank you to Michelle for donating over 200 blu-ray quality screen captures of Helena from Alice in Wonderland! Helena gives a fantastic performance, and these caps show exactly how amazing she looks – Enjoy!

Helena Bonham Carter will star in a BBC adaptation of Toast, the autobiography of food writer Nigel Slater.

She will play Slater’s stepmother in the 1960s-set drama based on the best-selling book. The teenage Slater will be played by Freddie Highmore, the child actor familiar from Love, Actually and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Lee Hall, the writer of Billy Elliot, has penned the script.

Toast is a bittersweet memoir told through food, with Slater reminiscing about the tastes and smells of his childhood, from Heinz sponge puddings to instant mash and Walnut Whips.

Slater’s mother died when he was nine and his father remarried Joan Potter, formerly the family cleaner. Life growing up in Wolverhampton thereafter was far from happy, and he found salvation in food. “There was nothing in my life, and cooking just completely filled the gap,” he said.

The film will be broadcast on BBC One at the end of this year. Filming begins in June in the West Midlands.

Jay Hunt, channel controller, said: “Toast is a wonderfully nostalgic drama that will be a real treat for BBC One viewers. This remarkable cast is sure to really bring Nigel Slater’s story alive.”

Toast has sold 250,000 copies and won a clutch of literary awards, including British biography of the year at the National Book Awards.

Bonham Carter recently starred in another BBC drama, playing Enid Blyton, in a performance which has earned her a Bafta nomination.

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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced that Alice in Wonderland will hit Blu-ray and DVD on June 1st. The press release:

Following a record-breaking theatrical performance, Tim Burton’s epic fantasy adventure Alice In Wonderland, Disney’s 4th biggest film of all time, takes its booming box-office success into the home with a Disney 3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy), 1-Disc Blu-ray and 1-Disc DVD on June 1, 2010, from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE).

The Alice In Wonderland Blu-ray DiscTM Combo Pack provides audiences with the chance to experience a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time in pristine 1080p picture and Dolby Digital 5.1 HD surround sound quality and has been especially packaged with family and fans in mind – with lots of exciting bonus features and an extra DVD and Digital Copy of the movie.

The Blu-ray Disc versions of the film include nine bonus features that take viewers deeper into the famous “Rabbit Hole” – exploring more of the world of Wonderland, its iconic characters and the making of the film. Features include the making of the Futterwacken Dance, a look inside the world of the Mad Hatter and Johnny Depp’s transformation, Tim Burton’s vision for the movie and its characters, the visual effects of growing and shrinking of Alice, costume designs, music, stunts and more.

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Over 1,000 DVD screen captures of Helena from her French film “Portraits Chinois” have just been added to the gallery – I forgot to take the subtitles off I’m afraid, so they’re still on a few of the caps, but Helena looks lovely nevertheless!