£400k Christmas bonus for jolly Bonham Carter

Christmas cheer for helena Bonham Carter: her company, Orlando Limited, has filed accounts stating it holds £7.245 million in funds — a whopping £400,000 increase on 2016.

Bonham Carter, 51, has fashioned her career playing eccentrics such as the red Queen in ex-partner tim Burton’s alice in Wonderland, Bellatrix Lestrange in the harry Potter films and miss havisham in the 2012 adaptation of Great Expectations.

But Bonham Carter has spoken flippantly of her fortune, saying: ‘there’s a lot made of acting when, ultimately, you’re playing — you’re paid a lot of money just to play.’

if only charades were as lucrative.