Done To Death: The insane, makeup-clad creepy lady. Basically, Tim Burton's female Johnny Depp. There's little doubt that Carter is a great actress: she's played a royal and a prostitute with equal ease, a villain and a sympathetic innocent in back-to-back performances. Mostly, though, like Depp, these performances are hard to pick out underneath the caked face paint and birds' nest of tangled hair. Given that she's married to Burton, she is perhaps obligated to show up in all of his movies in increasingly odd costumes, which might explain why she'll appear in the sequel to the horrendous Alice In Wonderland. That's sure to be an affair as cringeworthy as the first (if not more so). Subtle and effective, The King's Speech was one of Carter's deepest performances and crucially her least zany, and proved that she is a lot more than the pantomime wench she seems happy to perpetuate.
