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BAFTA Awards: Helena Bonham Carter wins for supporting actress

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British actress and fashionista Helena Bonham Carter just earned the Orange British Academy Film Award for supporting actress for her role as the queen in ‘The King’s Speech.’ She is also nominated for an Academy Award in that category.

Earlier in the ceremony presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Alexandre Desplat won for his score for the period drama.

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--Susan King

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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