Grant in A Merry War (1998), Bonham Carter landed one of her most talked-about roles in David Fincher's 1999 Fight Club. In 1997, she won acclaim for her performance in Iain Softley's adaptation of The Wings of the Dove, scoring a Best Actress Oscar nomination in the process.Īfter playing a woman stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease opposite offscreen partner Kenneth Branagh in the poorly received The Theory of Flight (1998) and appearing with Richard E. Bonham Carter's work in the film prompted observers to note that she seemed to be moving away from her previous roles, and although she still appeared in corset movies - such as Trevor Nunn's lush 1996 adaptation of Twelfth Night - she began to enhance her reputation as a thoroughly modern actress.
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Things began to change for Bonham Carter in 1995 when she appeared as Woody Allen's wife in Mighty Aphrodite and then had the title role in Margaret's Museum. Bonham Carter continued to appear in period roles, playing Ophelia in Hamlet (1990), Helen Schlegel in Howards End (1992), and Elizabeth in Frankenstein (1994).
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The film was widely praised by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards. Around the same time, she was cast in A Room with a View (1985) as Edwardian heroine Lucy Honeychurch, a young socialite who is conflicted by her feelings for two men. Though she intended to pursue a university education, she abandoned that aspiration at the coaxing of director Trevor Nunn and accepted the title role of his film Lady Jane (1986).
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In 1983 Bonham Carter appeared in her first major role, in the made-for-television movie A Pattern of Roses. Two years later, she got her first part in a television commercial, playing William Shakespeare’s Juliet in an advertisement for a stereo system. In the same period, she was looking for an agent, which she found through the yellow pages. While her father was in intensive care, Helena used her money to publish her photograph in a casting directory. When she was ten, Helena's father was hospitalized for a stroke, and a benign brain tumor.