You'd never suspect this tiny, pale, frail-looking British actress of the strength and passion she has exhibited in high-profile period pieces such as the 19th-century A Room With a View (1985), the Tudor Lady Jane (1986), and Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990, as Ophelia). One of Bonham Cart- er's few modern roles was that of a flamboyant, high-energy woman pursuing a 32-year-old virgin in 1989's Getting It Right Her latest costume parts were in E. M. Forster adaptations: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) and the near-perfect Howards End (1992). She played the title role in the 1993 telefilm Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald then returned to period clothes for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).