| I can vividly remember the first time I saw Helena Bonham Carter on screen, as Lucy Honeychurch in Merchant Ivory’s ravishing 1985 adaptation of A Room With a View; I was in my early teens and it was on TV, in a Sunday-afternoon slot. I was completely captivated by this porcelain-skinned beauty with her tumbling curls of tawny hair, touring the streets of Florence on the arm of Maggie Smith and falling head-over-heels in love with Julian Sands. In that film, she was—as so many have observed before me—the quintessential “English rose.”
But, as the profile that accompanies this newsletter, from the November 1997 issue of Vogue, points out, there’s always been far more to Bonham Carter than that. She’s a chameleonic performer, in the truest sense of the word: transforming into the troubled, chain-smoking, wiry-haired Marla Singer in Fight Club; the unhinged, cackling witch Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series; Princess Margaret, in all of her flamboyance and vulnerability, for The Crown. And of course, there’s Bonham Carter’s inimitable look. I can think of few actors with as distinctive an eye for fashion, and her romantic, punk-inflected style is always a delight to witness, both on and off the red carpet. Nobody wears Vivienne Westwood or Simone Rocha quite like her.
So, as Bonham Carter celebrates her 60th birthday in the coming days, we here at Vogue are celebrating her—and looking back to a story that captures her on the cusp of global fame, just before receiving her Oscar nomination for The Wings of the Dove. Dive in. |
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