Probably everyone has heard of a young wizard named Harry. In the books of Joan Rowling and the movie screening under the general title “Harry Potter”, Bellatrix Lestrange (actress Helena Bonham Carter) is the second most important character after Lord Voldemort. An outright maniac, a sadist who enjoys the suffering of others, is the only way to characterize this heroine. But even this image, as it turns out, is far from being known to the viewer.
Bellatrix Lestrange: actress
In fact, the actress, who played the role of one of the biggest fans among the Dark Lord adherents in the Harry Potter series of films based on John Rowling books, is called Helena Bonham Carter.
She so interestingly brought to life her dark character that now she is associated with this role and nothing else, although the actress has enough merit in the field of cinema.
Bellatrix Lestrange - the most famous character in the actress
I must say that the character with the name Bellatrix Lestrange, the actress who played him, depicted simply flawlessly. Such dark power on the screens of movie theaters was not there for a long time. What is there Dracula, he just bites and turns people into his own kind! Another thing is magic, which appears both at the turn of the book and in films, especially in the performance of this sexy dark sorceress.
Magic wands, spells - all this is natural for witchcraft. However, as it turns out, something remained behind the scenes. You understand that reading a book and watching a movie where much of the plot is omitted is completely different. So Bellatrix Lestrange (actress, whose real name is Helena Bonham Carter) is shown here too finely (for her level).
This statement has every reason. The fact is that many character traits, personal life or the fate of the heroine of the saga remained simply behind the scenes.
To begin with, the very name Bellatrix comes from the French Bellatrix, which means "warrior." In principle, the way it is. Look, because she has tremendous power, akin to the Dark Lord, and destroys everyone and everything indiscriminately. However, there are many secrets and incomprehensible moments that are not covered in the film (when compared with the book). Let's take a closer look.
What didn’t we see in the Harry Potter saga?
The saddest thing is that Bellatrix Lestrange (the name of the actress, as already mentioned, is Helena Bonham Carter) is not a character taken just out of nowhere. The story of her life is quite interesting and in some moments even amazing.
To begin with, she is nee Black. And that means Bellatrix is ​​the cousin of Sirius Black. Nevertheless, in the fourth part of the picture (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) she kills him.
It is not surprising, because she herself spent a lot of time in Azkaban with Crouch Jr., her husband and brother-in-law (they were sentenced to life imprisonment as punishment). It was Bellatrix Lestrange who became the head of the so-called Death Eaters. In both the book and the film, she was delighted to watch her victims writhe in pain while using the forbidden Cruciatus spell. Nevertheless, in the Deathly Hallows against Bellatrix, such witchcraft was also used by the main character himself - Harry Potter.
Interestingly, Bellatrix Lestrange is a graduate of the Slytherin faculty, and she studied with Lucius Malfoy, and then married his brother, Rudolfus Lestrange. As already clear, she is the aunt of the main opponent of Harry Potter - Draco Malfoy.
But that is not all. Bellatrix Lestrange herself (the actress who played her, Carter) hides many secrets that are simply impossible to figure out without reading the original books of Joan Rowling. In the film version, this simply is not.
Magical secrets
So, this sorceress has a rather impressive list of secrets to which she does not allow absolutely anyone.
First of all, despite her cruelty and despotism, she, oddly enough, is loyal to the Dark Lord most of all. And this has nothing to do with the powerful forces of darkness. The fact is that she is simply in love with that guy who was once called Tom Riddle (and who, incidentally, is a distant relative of Harry Potter).
Magical secrets begin when we learn about the death of the Harry family. Bellatrix Lestrange knew of the Prophecy that announced the birth of a child capable of confronting the Dark Lord. She killed Neville Longbottom's parents, thinking that after the death of the Potters, it would be Neville, but she was mistaken.
What follows is a mistrust of Snape. When Bellatrix comes to him with Narcissa, she feels that Snape is not the one he is trying to impersonate.
However, the film itself speaks about this only in passing. Look, because until the last moment Voldemort considered Professor Snape his henchman and killed him only because of a magic wand.
The saddest thing is that Bellatrix Lestrange dies from the actions of Molly Weasley, the youngest of the whole family. Why this worked is still unclear.
However, Bellatrix Lestrange (actress Helena Bonham Carter) is not the only known character represented by the actress in world cinema.
Other famous roles
I must say that many will be very surprised to learn that Helena Bonham Carter starred in episodic or supporting roles quite often.
On her account such famous paintings as “The King Says”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “Fight Club”, “Terminator: May the Savior Come,” “Vicious Relations”, “Planet of the Apes (2001)” and even a mini-series “The Great Merlin” starring Sam Neal, where she was recognized as the best actress in the “Supporting Roles” nomination.