Helena Bonham Carter
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| Name: | Helena Bonham Carter | |
| Status | Alive | |
| Age: | 58 (May 26, 1966) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 25.594 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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. |
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Movies
A Dark Adapted Eye
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[Ward] Smokes with supercilious passion |
Conversations with Other Women
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Carter smokes with her usual zest in about 5 scenes. Carter seems to have developed a new smoking style of double-pump or triple-pump drags, with the final pump being an extremely pronounced cheek-collapsing inhale. That's followed by a modified French inhale. Most of her exhales in this movie are visible, and she has a couple of talk-exhales. The movie also features a split-screen in which Carter's smoking is shot simultaneously from two different angles. Zehetner smokes in 2 scenes, but she doesn't look IRL, although her smoking does have good lighting and filming conditions. |
Dancing Queen
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...she not only smokes but strips. Quite a refreshing change from her usual 'English rose' roles. |
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
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A full-frame close-up as she puffs in an early scene. Later we get both front and rear views as she twice drags and exhales while applying her lipstick in front of a mirror. She also drags in one other scene. |
Fight Club
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at least two different scenes... in each ... she exhales the same way: letting the thick, consistent smoke flow slowly out her mouth like a chimney, but not a french inhale. In one of these scenes, she's in a restaurant dressed elegantly and wearing a hat and a pair of dark shades. In the other, she's in an ice cave for some reason. |
Football
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This is one of the short independent films that is shown on the Sundance Channel frequently. For only 20 minutes she plays the role of a heavy smoking and drinking mother. The scenes are decent and show some good dangling drags while she walks around the house. There are several additional drags including an excellent closeup that shows one of the deepest drags ever filmed which should further confirm her IRL status. |
Getting It Right
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Only one visible drag. |
Howards End
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A few scattered scenes. She holds more than she smokes though. The last of her scenes is quite nice. Lots of smoke in the air after a meal in the dining room, good sound and lighting. IRL drags, a good exhale and smoke talk. |
Live From Baghdad
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smokes throughout movie, some great exhales |
Maschera, La
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Smokes a large pipe |
Mighty Aphrodite
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several good smoking scenes... She looked like she smokes IRL. |
Novocaine
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She plays a variant of her character from Fight Club, and smokes in the same fine style, holding the cig in her teeth, letting smoke drift out of her mouth between the drag and inhale, smoke trickling from her nostrils after exhaling, etc. Two scenes. |
Portraits Chinois
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[Carter] smokes in about 6 scenes, mostly holding, just a few drags. Two different brands; one cork-tipped ans a slim all-white (Capri I guess). Romane Bohringer and Marie Trintignant both have two scenes each. |
Sixty Six
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Not much here, and considering its Helena and the time period and setting of the movie, this is a big disappointment. Only a couple of scenes and you cant see much and she mostly holds. |
The Heart of Me
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A party scene with two ladies in the background smoking with holders |
The Revengers' Comedies
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This one looked promising, with enthusiastic real-life smokers Carter and Kristin Scott Thomas in the cast, and it gets off to a good start with Carter showing an assured, stylish lightup in the second scene. But alas, there's no more. |
The Wings of the Dove
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One scene lighting up and inhaling, one holder scene shot mostly from her back, and one great holder scene with a long drag, french inhale, and nose exhale, immediately repeated twice. All this and she gets totally naked. |
Toast
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smokes throughout |
Women Talking Dirty
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Two scenes, one at beginning of movie, one at end. In the first, HBC has a monstrous inhale, followed by the beginning of an exhale into her beer, then she kisses a guy and more smoke comes out her nose and mouth following the kiss. Last scene she's outside and it's shot from a distance, but she has more long inhales, followed by her trademark french inhales, and a little bit of a talk exhale. There could have been more, but not bad. |
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