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.