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Helena Bonham Carter Stars as The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, AP photo/Disney

British actress, Helena Bonham Carter, 43, started out her career starring in many period drama movies, the most notable of which is probably Room With a View (1985); in recent years, Helena Bonham Carter has taken to starring in many of director (and partner), Tim Burton’s movies  which include such movies as Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and most recently Alice in Wonderland (2009).  Helena Bonham Carter has been what could be described as “eccentrically English” and her recent roles reflect some of these characteristics.  However, perhaps her role as the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland is one of her more “unconventional” roles.

Helena Bonham Carter in Sweeny Todd, AP/Dreamworks/WarnerBros

The U.K’s Guardian newspaper reports that Helena is happy to make the transition from period drama queen to unconventional queen because she no longer has to play “the corset sex symbol.”

Helena Bonham Carter said:

“I was like the corset bimbo.  Well, not quite bimbo, but you know what I mean. The corset sex symbol, I suppose.  Now I’m not going to be the sex symbol, I’m going to be the granny.”

With two young children, Billy Raymond Burton, 5, and Nell Burton, 2, Helena is not quite the granny yet but her English eccentricity continues to shine through the usual Hollywood world of glitz and glamor.  Her role as the Red Queen could be described as “bizarre” by some, but being an English girl myself, I see nothing wrong with flaunting one’s “eccentricity” and “bizarreness”