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    Helena Bonham Carter

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

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    5' 2" (1.57 m)

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    Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

    Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (n?e Propper de Callej?n), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker. Through her father, 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 De ernst van Ernst (1952), among others. Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor. Her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callej?n, 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 own father was a Czech Jew). Helena's maternal grandmother, H?l?ne Fould-Springer, was from an upper-class Jewish family from France, Austria, and Germany, and later converted to her husband's Catholic faith.

    Bonham Carter experienced family dramas during her childhood, including her father's stroke - which left him wheelchair-bound. She attended South Hampstead High School and Westminster School in London, and subsequently devoted herself to an acting career. That trajectory actually began in 1979 when, at age thirteen, 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 sixteen. 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 A Room with a View (1985), director James Ivory's tasteful adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, and Lady Jane (1986), giving a strong performance as the uncrowned Queen of England. She had roles in three other productions under the Merchant-Ivory banner (director Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala): an uncredited appearance in Maurice (1987), and large roles in Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) and Howards End (1992).

    Often referred to as the "corset queen" or "English rose" because of her early work, Bonham Carter 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). Her acclaimed performance in The Wings of the Dove (1997) earned her a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination, a BAFTA Best Actress nomination, and a SAG Awards Best Actress nomination. It also won her a Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Boston Society Film Critics, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Texas Society of Film Critics, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association.

    In the late 1990s, Bonham Carter embarked on the next phase of her career, moving from capable actress to compelling star. Audiences and critics had long been enchanted by her delicate beauty, evocative of another time and place. Her late '90s and early and mid 2000s roles included Mick Jackson's Live from Baghdad (2002), alongside Michael Keaton, receiving a nomination for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe; Paul Greengrass' The Theory of Flight (1998), in which she played a victim of motor neurone disease; Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996), in which she played Olivia; opposite Woody Allen in his Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Mort Ransen's Margaret's Museum (1995); Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein (1994); and Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990).

    Other notable credits include her appearance with Steve Martin in Novocaine (2001), Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes, in which she played an ape, Thaddeus O'Sullivan's The Heart of Me (2002), opposite Paul Bettany, and Big Fish (2003), her second effort with Tim Burton, in which she appeared as a witch.

    In between her films, Helena has managed a few television appearances, which include her portrayal of Jacqui Jackson in Magnificent 7 (2005), the tale of a mother struggling to raise seven children - three daughters and four autistic boys; as Anne Boleyn in the two-parter biopic of Henry VIII starring Ray Winstone; and as Morgan Le Fey, alongside Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson, in Merlin. Earlier television appearances include Michael Mann's Miami Vice (1984) as Don Johnson's junkie fianc?e, and as a stripper who wins Rik Mayall's heart in Dancing Queen (1993). Helena has also appeared on stage, in productions of Trelawney of the Wells, The Barber of Seville, House of Bernarda Alba, The Chalk Garden, and Woman in White.

    Bonham Carter was nominated for a Golden Globe for the fifth time for her role in partner Tim Burton's film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), for which Burton and co-star Johnny Depp were also nominated. For the role, she was awarded Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008. Other 2000s work includes playing Mrs Bucket in Tim Burton's massive hit Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), providing the voices for the aristocratic Lady Campanula Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and for the eponymous dead heroine in Tim Burton's spooky Corpse Bride (2005), and co-starring in Conversations with Other Women (2005) opposite Aaron Eckhart.

    After their meeting while filming Planet of the Apes (2001), Bonham Carter and Tim Burton made seven films together. They lived in adjoining residences in London, shared a connecting hallway, and have two children: Billy Ray Burton, born in 2003, and Nell Burton, who was born in 2007. Ironically, a mutual love of Sweeney Todd was part of the initial attraction for the pair. 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.
     

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      [09/19/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ Mulberry Private Dinner Party - x4


      Helena Bonham Carter attends Mulberry Private Dinner Party - September 19, 2010 - London, England United Kingdom







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      Helena Bonham Carter - Dave Hogan "King's Speech" Portraits 2010 - x13







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      [10/21/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ "The King's Speech" LFF Photocall - x56


      Helena Bonham Carter promotes the film 'The King's Speech' as part of the 54th BFI London Film Festival at Vue West End on October 21, 2010 in London, England.















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      [10/21/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ "The Kings Speech" LFF Premiere - x44


      Helena Bonham Carter arrives at the American Express Gala Screening of 'The King's Speech' during the 54th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on October 21, 2010 in London, England.












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      Re: [10/21/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ "The Kings Speech" LFF Premiere - x44

      She's an oddball, but I like her!

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      Re: [10/21/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ "The King's Speech" LFF Photocall - x56

      Love the specs, good post!

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      [11/08/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ "The King's Speech" Premiere N.Y. - x13


      Helena Bonham Carter attends the premiere of "The King's Speech" at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 8, 2010 in New York City.







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      [11/11/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows" Premiere - x30


      Actress Helena Bonham Carter attends the world premiere of "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows" at Odeon Leicester Square on November 11, 2010 in London, England.









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      [12/05/10] Helena Bonham Carter @ Moet British Independent Film Awards - x20 + x4


      Helena Bonham Carter attends the Moet British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate Market on December 5, 2010 in London, England.







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      [01/14/11] Helena Bonham Carter @ W Magazine Golden Globe Party - x7 + x12


      LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 14: W Magazine Golden Globe party at Chateau Marmont on January 14, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.





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      [01/14/11] Helena Bonham Carter @ 16th Annual Critics Choice Awards - x59


      LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 14: 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on January 14, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

      AFI Awards Included As Well















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      Re: [01/14/11] Helena Bonham Carter @ W Magazine Golden Globe Party - x7

      Thanks a lot!

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      [01/13/11] Helena Bonham Carter @ "King's Speech" Press Conference - x8







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