"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us."
Partner: director Tim Burton (October 2001 - present)
Children: Billy Ray (born in 2003) and pregnant with second child, due in December 2007 (both children with Tim Burton)
Family: Mother - Elena, Father - Raymond (died Jan 17, 2004); two older brothers - Edward and Tom.
Granddaughter of Violet Bonham Carter, a Life Peeress in her own right and the niece of Mark Bonham Carter, who was created a Life Peer in his own right as well. Her half-Spanish mother 'Elena Propper de Callejon' is niece of Baroness Liliane de Rothschild, née Fould-Springer; Great-granddaughter of H.H. Asquith, British Prime Minister (1908-1916); Cousin of Crispin Bonham-Carter and Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter.
Biography: For a time in the late 1990s, it seemed that Helena Bonham Carter was about to deliver on her promise and begin what would be a major career as a first-rate, important actress. Audiences and critics had always known of her extraordinary look. a delicate beauty that evoked another time and another place, but her performance in "The Wings of the Dove" (1997) had shown her to be possessed of a vital acting talent as well. She won a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her work in the film, and but for her nationality (four of the five nominees hailed from outside the U.S. that year; the American won the Oscar), she might likely have joined the elite pantheon of foreign-born Academy Award winning actresses.
Interesting Facts:
- Speaks French fluently.
- Was denied admission to King's College, Cambridge University, not because of her grades or her test scores but because school officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue her acting career. Because of Cambridge's rejection, Helena decided to concentrate fully on acting.
- Is close friends with Johnny Depp, who often works with her husband, Tim Burton. In fact, Johnny Depp is the godfather of her child with Tim Burton, Billy Ray.
Filmography:
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2008)
- Stand by Love (2008)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
- Sixty Six (2006)
- Magnificent 7 (2005) (TV)
- Corpse Bride (2005)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- Conversations with Other Women (2005)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Big Fish (2003)
- Henry VIII (2003) (TV)
- Live from Baghdad (2002) (TV)
- Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
- The Heart of Me (2002)
- Novocaine (2001)
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Football (2001) (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
- Carnivale (2000) (voice)
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999) (TV)
- Women Talking Dirty (1999)
- Fight Club (1999)
- The Theory of Flight (1998)
- The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
- Merlin (1998/II) (TV)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
- The Wings of the Dove (1997)
- The Petticoat Expeditions (1997)
- Portraits chinois (1996)
- Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
- Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
- Margaret's Museum (1995)
- Frankenstein (1994)
- Butter (1994) (TV)
- A Dark Adapted Eye (1994) (TV)
- Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) (TV)
- Dancing Queen (1993) (TV) (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
- Howards End (1992)
- Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
- "Jackanory"(5 episodes, 1991)
- Hamlet (1990/I)
- Getting It Right (1989)
- Francesco (1989)
- Arms and the Man (1989) (TV)
- Maschera, La (1988)
- The Vision (1988) (TV)
- A Hazard of Hearts (1987) (TV)
- Maurice (1987)
- "Miami Vice" (2 episodes, 1987)
- Lady Jane (1986)
- A Room with a View (1985) (as Helena Bonham-Carter)
- A Pattern of Roses (1983) (TV)
Contact: Address:
Helena Bonham Carter
c/o Conway / Van Gelder.
18/21 Jermyn Street
London SW1Y 6HP
Great Britain
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