On Wednesday, Helena was at the National Portrait Gallery in London for a private viewing of The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, an exhibit which Helena is actually featured in. According to the official website:

The First Actresses presents a vivid spectacle of femininity, fashion and theatricality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain.

To complement The First Actresses, this display showcases portraits of contemporary actresses from the Gallery’s Collection. Including paintings of Dame Judi Dench and Dame Helen Mirren, and photographs of Vanessa Redgrave and newcomer Anna Popplewell, the display highlights the talent and achievement of British women currently performing in theatre, television and film, all of whom owe a debt to the pioneering first actresses. their professional identities.

By Celyn • October 21, 2011 • Gallery • Comments: 0

Now on the verge of receiving BAFTA’s Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year, Helena Bonham Carter first made Florentine getaways fashionable as a girl of 18, when she starred in the Oscar-winning A Room with a View — all about the life-changing potential of a Tuscan adventure. She never could quit those trips — herewith, her favorite foods, shops, and pastimes in beloved Firenze.

To get away from it all, I go to … Florence, Italy.

My favorite way to travel there is … Car, plane, car. Not long, and always worth it.

My favorite place to stay is … In a house my great-grandmother bought just after the Second World War, that she left for all her descendants to enjoy. I go because it’s a pocket of paradise, and it’s a place in the world that unfailingly fills one with bliss.

My ideal travel companions are … My children, who love eating the tomatoes out of the earth, and my boyfriend, [Tim Burton,] who loves painting on Uncle Frank’s balcony. My mother, who loves reading in the cool of the bedrooms, and my brothers and their families, who all love the pasta.

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By Celyn • October 14, 2011 • Magazines & Scans • Comments: 0

Thanks to Vicki, I have been able to add over 100 additional stills and DVD extras to the Film section of the gallery, including replacing a few of the previous stills with HQ versions! More from the site merge will be added asap, so stay tuned for that.

By Celyn • October 12, 2011 • Film, Gallery • Comments: 0

She’s been a critics’ darling and a fashion fascination for three decades. And now actress Helena Bonham Carter, 45, is the very first winner of the Anglo Fan Favorites women’s tournament, pulling out a 55-45 percent victory over Harry Potter novelist JK Rowling. Dame Maggie Smith, the 76-year-old recent Emmy winner for Downton Abbey, overwhelmed 21-year-old Emma Watson 68-32 percent in the third-place matchup.

It’s been a great year for Bonham Carter. She received an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA for playing Queen Elizabeth II‘s mother in The King’s Speech, starred in the hugely successful Harry Potter franchise finale, and was honored with the British Artist of the Year award from BAFTA Los Angeles.

Bonham Carter joins men’s champ Alan Rickman on the winner’s stand this year. Both have enjoyed diverse careers, excelling at both villains and heroes. At age 19, Helena first came to prominence as passionate, conflicted Lucy Honeychurch in the 1986 Merchant/Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster‘s turn-of-the-century romance A Room With a View. Later, playing Ophelia in Mel Gibson‘s Hamlet showed that the beautiful ingenue could serve up some major “cray-cray,” and a legendary cinema eccentric was born. (Becoming Tim Burton‘s muse only strengthened her outré status.) And certainly portraying Bellatrix Lestrange in the globally successful Harry Potter films launched her into a new stratosphere of fame.

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By Celyn • October 07, 2011 • News • Comments: 0

After acidentally deleting the original batch during the gallery move (oops!), I have finally re-capped and re-uploaded captures of Helena as the tragic Ophelia from the 1990′s Shakespeare tale Hamlet. Enjoy!

By Celyn • October 01, 2011 • Film • Comments: 0