Helena Bonham Carter

Happy Birthday to

Helena Bonham Carter

45 today

HBC's career can be easily catalogued into boxes. There's the period films, which she cut her teeth on with Merchant Ivory and in which she's earned her two Oscar nods for (the most recent for The King's Speech, right) and there's the fantasy films, including Harry Potter and the upcoming Dark Shadows directed by her long-time partner Tim Burton.