Helena Bonham Carter was recently seen in Till Human Voices Wake Us with Guy Pearce and in the HBO film "Live from Baghdad," for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. Other recent films include Novocaine with Steve Martin, The Heart of Me, Fight Club with Brad Pitt and Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes.

For her performance in Wings of the Dove, she received a Best Actress nomination for an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award. She received a Canadian Genie Award for best actress for Margaret’s Museum and was also Emmy nominated for her role in the miniseries "Merlin".

On the last day of filming her screen debut in Lady Jane, James Ivory offered her the ingenue lead in A Room with a View. It was the first of a series of roles in E.M. Forster adaptations that would bring her international acclaim and was followed by Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howard’s End. She played Ophelia in Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet opposite Mel Gibson and portrayed Elizabeth in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein directed by Kenneth Branagh. She subsequently appeared as Woody Allen’s wife in Mighty Aphrodite.

Bonham Carter has also sought a variety of contemporary roles in television films. She has appeared as a victim of anorexia in "Getting It Right," a stripper in "Dancing Queen" and the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald in "Fatal Deception." Her stage credits include "Woman in White," "The Chalk Garden," "House of Bernarda Alba" and "Trelawny of the Wells."