She takes over from Sir Tim Rice as the president of a library that counts Charles Dickens as a founding member.
The library said Bonham Carter's career links her to its past members.
In 2012, Bonham Carter played Miss Havisham in an adaptation of founding member Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. She has also played Eudoria Holmes in the Enola Holmes films based on characters created by library member Arthur Conan Doyle. Membership has also been taken up by writers Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Daphne du Maurier, Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge, and actress Diana Rigg and artist Vanessa Bell.
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