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"Harry" Woos Helena
She's already played a corpse bride so why not a Death Eater?
Helena Bonham Carter is the latest pedigreed British thespian to hop aboard Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Warner Bros. announced Thursday.
The 40-year-old actress will play Bellatrix Lestrange, the cousin of Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, and an avid devotee of Lord Voldemort.
Hotshot British television director David Yates is making his feature helming debut on Phoenix, which will see Daniel Radcliffe returning as everyone's favorite lightning-scarred magician, with Rupert Gint and Emma Watson reprising their roles as Harry's respective best buds, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
Also returning is Ralph Fiennes as You-Know-Who, Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, Michael Gambon as Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, along with Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, David Thewles, Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Jason Isaacs and Fiona Shaw.
Bonham Carter isn't the Potter rookie. Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton will debut as the bespectacled boy wizard's main nemesis in Phoenix, Dolores Umbridge.
Other cast newbies include George Harris as Kingsley Shacklebolt, Kathryn Hunter as Mrs. Arabella Figg, Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonk and 14-year-old Evanna Lynch as Harry's loopy new pal, Luna Lovegood.
A new addition behind the scenes is composer Nicholas Hooper, who will pick up where previous music men John Williams and Patrick Doyle left off.
The fifth book in J.K. Rowling's mega-selling fantasy series, adapted by Michael Goldenberg, is scheduled to cast its spell over moviegoers next July. The film is currently shooting.
Bonham Carter, who scored an Oscar nomination for 1997's The Wings of the Dove, recently had notable roles in three major Hollywood movies directed by longtime beau Tim Burton--2005's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2003's Big Fish and 2001's Planet of the Apes remake.
Her other film credits include 2003's Conversations With Women, 2001's Novocaine, 1999's Fight Club, 1995's Mighty Aphrodite, 1994's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and a pair of Merchant-Ivory productions--1992's Howard's End and 1985's A Room With A View.
She also lent her pipes to two of last year's top animated hits, voicing the title character in Burton's The Corpse Bride and Wallace's object of affection, Lady Tottington, in Wallace & Gromit's the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Her next big screen appearance will be in the U.K. comedy, Sixty Six.
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