Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter has enrolled for the next semester at Hogwarts. Having recently lent her voice to the Oscar-nominated stop-motion features Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the actress will play Voldemort follower Bellatrix Lestrange in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth installment in the blockbuster series based on the books by J.K. Rowling.
Bonham Carter joins returning Potter regulars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, David Thewlis, Fiona Shaw and Richard Griffiths. Also signing on for the latest flick are Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge, George Harris as Kingsley Shacklebolt, Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks, Kathryn Hunter as Mrs. Figg and 14-year-old Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released by Warner Bros. in 2007. The film is being directed by British filmmaker David Yates (The Girl in the Cafe, Sex Traffic, State of Play) and produced by David Heyman and David Barron from a screenplay by Michael Goldenberg, whose credits include Contact, Peter Pan and Spike Jones’s adaptation of kid lit favorite Where the Wild Things Are.
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