HELENA BONHAM CARTER
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Personal details
About me
London, London, United Kingdom
Helena Bonham Carter, daughter of Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, was born in Golders Green, London, England on May 26, 1966 and is the youngest of three children. 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 The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), among others. Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor.
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) (TV), which subsequently led to her casting in the Merchant Ivory films A Room with a View (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 The Wings of the Dove (1997) and Shakespearian damsels to the dark and neurotic anti-heroines of Fight Club (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: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), for which Burton and co-star Johnny Depp were also nominated. Since their meeting while filming Planet of the Apes (2001), Bonham Carter and Burton have made four movies together. They live 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. .
Helena Bonham Carter, daughter of Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, was born in Golders Green, London, England on May 26, 1966 and is the youngest of three children. 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 The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), among others. Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor.
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) (TV), which subsequently led to her casting in the Merchant Ivory films A Room with a View (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 The Wings of the Dove (1997) and Shakespearian damsels to the dark and neurotic anti-heroines of Fight Club (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: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), for which Burton and co-star Johnny Depp were also nominated. Since their meeting while filming Planet of the Apes (2001), Bonham Carter and Burton have made four movies together. They live 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. .
Credit
FILM
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PRE-PRODUCTION)
MISS HAVISHAM
MIKE NEWELL
DARK SHADOWS (FILMING)
DR. JULIA HOFFMAN
TIM BURTON
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
BELLATRIX LESTRANGE
DAVID YATES
TOAST
MRS. POTTER
S.J. CLARKSON
THE KING'S SPEECH
QUEEN ELIZABETH
TOM HOOPER
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1
BELLATRIX LESTRANGE
DAVID YATES
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
RED QUEEN
TIM BURTON
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
BELLATRIX LESTRANGE
DAVID YATES
TERMINATOR SALVATION
DR. SERENA KOGAN
MCG
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
MRS. LOVETT
TIM BURTON
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
BELLATRIX LESTRANGE
DAVID YATES
SIXTY SIX
ESTHER RUBENS
PAUL WEILAND
CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN
WOMAN
HANS CANOSA
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
MRS. BUCKET
TIM BURTON
BIG FISH
JENNY - YOUNG / JENNY - SENIOR / THE WITCH
TIM BURTON
TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US
RUBY
MICHAEL PETRONI
THE HEART OF ME
DINAH
THADDEUS O'SULLIVAN
NOVOCAINE
SUSAN
DAVID ATKINS
PLANET OF THE APES
ARI
TIM BURTON
FOOTBALL (SHORT)
MUM (AS HELENA BONHAM-CARTER)
GABY DELLAL
WOMEN TALKING DIRTY
CORA
COKY GIEDROYC
FIGHT CLUB
MARLA SINGER
DAVID FINCHER
THE THEORY OF FLIGHT
JANE HATCHARD
PAUL GREENGRASS
THE REVENGERS' COMEDIES
KAREN KNIGHTLY
MALCOLM MOWBRAY
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
ROSEMARY
ROBERT BIERMAN
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
KATE CROY
IAIN SOFTLEY
THE PETTICOAT EXPEDITIONS
NARRATOR
PEPITA FERRARI
PORTRAITS CHINOIS
ADA
MARTINE DUGOWSON
TWELFTH NIGHT
OLIVIA
TREVOR NUNN
JEREMY HARDY GIVES GOOD SEX (VIDEO)
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
MARCUS MORTIMER
MARGARET'S MUSEUM
MARGARET MACNEIL
MORT RANSEN
MIGHTY APHRODITE
AMANDA
WOODY ALLEN
HOWARDS END
HELEN SCHLEGEL
JAMES IVORY
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
CAROLINE ABBOTT
CHARLES STURRIDGE
HAMLET
OPHELIA
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
GETTING IT RIGHT
LADY MINERVA MUNDAY
RANDAL KLEISER
FRANCESCO
CHIARA
LILIANA CAVANI
SIX MINUTES WITH LUDWIG (SHORT)
THE STAR
DANIEL NYIRI
LA MASCHERA
IRIS
FIORELLA INFASCELLI
MAURICE
LADY AT CRICKET MATCH (UNCREDITED)
JAMES IVORY
LADY JANE
LADY JANE GREY
TREVOR NUNN
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
LUCY HONEYCHURCH, MISS BARTLETT'S COUSIN AND CHARGE (AS HELENA BONHAM-CARTER)
JAMES IVORY
TV
MAGNIFICENT 7 (TV MOVIE)
MAGGI JACKSON
KENNETH GLENAAN
HENRY VIII (TV MOVIE)
ANNE BOLEYN
PETE TRAVIS
LIVE FROM BAGHDAD (TV MOVIE)
INGRID FORMANEK
MICK JACKSON
THE NEARLY COMPLETE AND UTTER HISTORY OF EVERYTHING (TV MOVIE)
LILY
DEWI HUMPHREYS, PAUL JACKSON, AND 1 MORE CREDIT
MERLIN (TV MINI-SERIES)
MORGAN LE FEY
STEVE BARRON
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (TV MOVIE)
LEAD FEMALE (UNCREDITED)
JEFF YONIS
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS (TV SERIES)
DREAM SAFFRON €“ HOSPITAL (1994) €¦ DREAM SAFFRON
N/A
BUTTER (TV SHORT)
DOROTHY
ALAN CUMMING
A DARK ADAPTED EYE (TV MOVIE)
FAITH SEVERN (ADULT
TIM FYWELL
FATAL DECEPTION: MRS. LEE HARVEY OSWALD (TV MOVIE)
MARINA OSWALD
ROBERT DORNHELM
DANCING QUEEN (TV MOVIE)
PANDORA/JULIE (AS HELENA BONHAM-CARTER)
NICK HAMM
BROWN BEAR'S WEDDING (TV MOVIE)
WHITE BEAR (VOICE) (AS HELENA BONHAM-CARTER)
MARTINE BECK (BOOK), MARIE H. HENRY (BOOK), AND 2 MORE CREDITS
JACKANORY (TV SERIES)
READER €“ THE WAY TO SATTIN SHORE: PART 5 (1991) €¦ READER €“ THE WAY TO SATTIN SHORE: PART 4 (1991) €¦ READER €“ THE WAY TO SATTIN SHORE: PART 3 (1991) €¦ READER €“ THE WAY TO SATTIN S
JOY WHITBY, MARY TOURTEL, ALFRED BESTALL
THEATRE NIGHT (TV SERIES)
RAINA PETKOFF €“ ARMS AND THE MAN (1989) €¦ RAINA PETKOFF
N/A
A HAZARD OF HEARTS (TV MOVIE)
SERENA STAVERLEY
JOHN HOUGH
SCREEN TWO (TV SERIES)
JO MARRINER €“ THE VISION (1987) €¦ JO MARRINER
N/A
MIAMI VICE (TV SERIES)
DR. THERESA LYONS €“ THERESA (1987) €¦ DR. THERESA LYONS €“ THE SAVAGE (1987) €¦ DR. THERESA LYONS
ANTHONY YERKOVICH
A PATTERN OF ROSES (TV MOVIE)
NETTY, THE PAST (INTRODUCING)
LAWRENCE GORDON CLARK
VOICE OVER
WALLACE
LADY TOTTINGTON (VOICE)
N/A
CORPSE BRIDE
CORPSE BRIDE (VOICE)
TIM BURTON, MIKE JOHNSON
WALLACE
LADY CAMPANULA TOTTINGTON (VOICE)
STEVE BOX, NICK PARK
CARNIVALE
MILLY (VOICE)
DEANE TAYLOR
Skills
Dance: Ballet, Ballroom, English, Hip-Hop, Irish, Religious and Sacred Dance, Scottish, Salsa, Swing, Spanish
Singing: Choral / Choir, Musical Theatre, Operatic, R & B / Blues
Sports: Bowling, Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sailing, Skiing, Squash, Tennis
Musical Instruments: Piano, Violin
Language: Dutch, English, French
Accents: French, German, Italian, New York City, Scottish, Standard American, Standard British, Welsh
Additional: Firearms, Hosting, Martial Arts Weapons, Modeling, Newscasting