‘Nolly’ review: On Masterpiece, Helena Bonham Carter plays a soap star who’s been sacked
A longtime British soap star until she was unceremoniously sacked in 1981, Noele “Nolly” Gordon was the kind of larger-than-life figure who is common — essential, even — to show business. A bit ridiculous, a bit imperious, but also so much fun. The final stretch of her career is brought to life by Helena Bonham Carter in “Nolly,” the three-part biopic that aired last year in the U.K. and comes to the U.S. courtesy of Masterpiece on PBS.
For nearly two decades, she anchored the underfunded soap opera “Crossroads,” which was set in and around a
