Helena Bonham Carter was born in London in 1966 to a banker father and a psychotherapist mother. Although raised in affluence, she suffered difficulties in her childhood: when she was five, her mother had a nervous breakdown (later to recover), and when she was 13, her father became paralyzed after complications arose during brain surgery. While her father was still in the hospital, she won a poetry contest and used the money to get her picture in a casting catalog. Not long after, she hired an agent who helped get her acting career underway.
Helena has charmed audiences in dozens of acclaimed films, television features, plays, and radio pieces. Renowned and much loved in England, she hit the big time Stateside with Fight Club and Planet of the Apes.
Date and Place of Birth: May 26, 1966; Golders Green, London
Claim to Fame: as Kate Croy in Wings of the Dove (1997)
Height: 160cm (5' 3")
Family: Raymond Bonham Carter (former merchant banker); Elena Bonham Carter (nee Propper de Callejon; psychotherapist); Thomas Bonham Carter (soldier) and Edward Bonham Carter (older; merchant banker); Crispin Bonham Carter (actor)
Relationships: Tim Burton (director; born on August 25, 1958; worked together on Planet of the Apes; announced relationship October 2001), Kenneth Branagh (actor; born on December 10, 1960; together from 1994-September 1999)
Quotation: "Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character."
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