Helena Bonham Carter

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Birth Name: Helena Bonham Carter

Age: 55, born 26 May 1966

Born and residing in: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 2"

Relationship Status: Single

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Description: Helena Bonham Carter [ Born: May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England ] is an English actress. Carter is the youngest of three children of Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née de Callejón), a psychotherapist. She is the great-granddaughter of former Prime Minister Herbert H. Asquith and her blue-blooded family tree also contains Barons and Baronesses, diplomats, and a director, Bonham Carter's great-uncle Anthony Asquith, who made Pygmalion (1938) and La importancia de llamarse Ernesto (1952), among others. Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor. Her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Helena Bonham Carter [ Born: May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England ] is an English actress. Carter is the youngest of three children of Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née de Callejón), a psychotherapist. She is the great-granddaughter of former Prime Minister Herbert H. Asquith and her blue-blooded family tree also contains Barons and Baronesses, diplomats, and a director, Bonham Carter's great-uncle Anthony Asquith, who made Pygmalion (1938) and La importancia de llamarse Ernesto (1952), among others. Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor. Her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejón, was a Spanish diplomat who was awarded the honorific Righteous Among the Nations, by Israel, for helping save Jews during World War II (Eduardo's father was a Czech Jew). Her maternal grandmother, Hélène Fould-Springer, was from an upper-class Jewish family from France, Austria, and Germany, and later converted to her husband's Catholic faith.

After experiencing family dramas that included her father's stroke-which left him wheelchair-bound-and attending South Hampstead High School and Westminster School in London, Bonham Carter devoted herself to an acting career. That trajectory actually began in 1979 when, at age 13, she entered a national poetry writing competition and used her second place winnings to place her photo in the casting directory "Spotlight." She soon had her first agent and her first acting job, in a commercial, at age 16. She then landed a role in the made-for-TV movie A Pattern of Roses (1983), which subsequently led to her casting in the Merchant Ivory films Una habitación con vistas (1985) and Lady Jane (1986), which was her first leading role.

Often referred to as the "corset queen" or "English rose" because of her early work, Bonham Carter has continued to surprise audiences with magnificent performances in a variety of roles from her more traditional corset-clad character in Las alas de la paloma (1997) and Shakespearian damsels to the dark and neurotic anti-heroines of El club de la lucha (1999) and many of Tim Burton's films. Though consistently a versatile and engaging actress, Bonham Carter has never won a major American film award. However, she has received a number of critical awards and has been nominated for five Golden Globes, an Oscar, a SAG Award, and two Emmys.

Bonham Carter was nominated for a Golden Globe for the fifth time for her role in partner Tim Burton's film adaptation of the Steven Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd, el barbero diabólico de la calle Fleet (2007), for which Burton and co-star Johnny Depp were also nominated. Since their meeting while filming El planeta de los simios (2001), Bonham Carter and Burton have made four movies together. They lived in adjoining residences in London, sharing a connecting hallway, and have two children: Billy Ray Burton, 4, and Nell Burton, who was born December 15, 2007. Ironically, a mutual love of Sweeney Todd was part of the initial attraction for the pair. Despite that, Bonham Carter has said in numerous interviews that her audition process for the role of Mrs. Lovett was the most grueling of her career and that, ultimately, it was Sondheim who she had to convince that she was right for the role.

On December 23, 2014, Bonham Carter and Burton announced that they had "separated amicably" earlier that year. ... (more)