Bio data of Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Date of Birth: 26 May 1966 , Golders Green, London, England, UK

Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Helena Bonham Carter, the youngest of three children of Raymond Bonham transporter, a mercantile banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, was born in Golders Green, London, England on May 26, 1966. She is the great-granddaughter of previous Prime priest 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), in the middle of others. Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor. Her motherly grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejón, was a Spanish civil servant who was awarded the honorific Righteous among the Nations, by Israel, for serving save Jews throughout World War II (Eduardo's father was a Czech Jew). Her motherly grandmother, Hélène Fould-Springer, was from an upper-class Jewish family from France, Austria, and Germany, and later rehabilitated to her husband's Catholic faith.

After experiencing family dramas that included her father's stroke-which absent him wheelchair-bound-and presence South Hampstead High School and Westminster School in London, Bonham Carter loyal herself to a drama career. That route actually began in 1979 when, at age 13, she entered a national poetry writing rivalry and used her next place winnings to place her photo in the casting directory "Spotlight." She soon had her first manager and her first drama job, in a profitable, at age 16. She then landed a role in the made-for-TV movie A Pattern of Roses (1983), which then led to her casting in the Merchant Ivory films A Room with a View (1985) and Lady Jane (1986), which was her first most important role.

Often referred to as the "corset queen" or "English rose" since of her near the beginning work, Bonham Carter has sustained to shock audiences with superb performances in a diversity of roles from her additional conventional corset-clad nature in The Wings of the Dove(1997) and Shakespearian damsels to the dim and anxious anti-heroines of Fight Club(1999) and many of Tim Burton's films. Though time after time a versatile and attractive actress, Bonham Carter has never won a major American film prize. However, she has conventional a number of dangerous awards and has been designated for five Golden Globes, an Oscar, a SAG Award, and two Emmys.