Helena Bonham Carter Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Helena Bonham Carter
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Helena Bonham Carter’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards she has won and watch photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF HELENA BONHAM CARTER

Age: 54 years old
Height: 157 cm
Born in: London, Great Britain
Born on: 26/05/1966

Sons: Billy-Ray Burton, Nell Burton

BIOGRAPHY OF HELENA BONHAM CARTER

Helena Bonham Carter was born in 1966 in the district of Golders Green in London, from a father important banker. Her mother Elena suffers from a nervous breakdown when she is five years old: after the rehabilitation process, she becomes a psychotherapist herself, leaving a mark on her daughter, always very interested in the psychological processes of the characters she plays.

Helena does not study as an actress: in 1979, at the age of thirteen, he won a writing competition, and with that money you pay for the subscription to the Spotlight casting archive (a British institution, active since 1927). After a small role on TV, at twenty he is the direct protagonist of the film in costume Lady Jane (1986) by Trevor Nunn. This feature film, however, comes out before its real explosion, in a supporting role, in Room with a view (1985) by James Ivory, from the novel by EM Forster and shot a year earlier. In this period she is also, for two episodes of the third season (1987), Sonny’s girlfriend / Don Johnson in Miami Vice.

After other small participations, he returns to talk about himself as theOphelia ofHamlet (1990) by Franco Zeffirelli, with Mel Gibson, and especially with the role of Helen in Howard House (1992), again by the director who discovered it, James Ivory: a part that makes her close to the BAFTA as best supporting actor.

From 1994 to 1999 she is the partner of Kenneth Branagh, who directs it in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1994). In recent years he is also alongside Woody Allen in The goddess of love (1995). 1997 is the film that brings her close to Golden Globe and Oscar: The wings of love of Iain Softley, based on the Henry James novel “The Wings of the Dove”. In 1998 she is a woman paralyzed in the dramatic The theory of flight, performed together with Kenneth Branagh, directed by Paul Greengrass, at the time decided to leave television productions. The following year he is in the cult Fight Club (1999) of David Fincher, perfect cradle for its powerful and over the top register. In 2001 another meeting changes her life: she is in the cast of Planet of the Apes – The Planet of the Apes, directed by Tim Burton, with which he establishes a long sentimental and professional relationship that will end in 2014, after two children together and several feature films: Big Fish (2003), The Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dark Shadows (2012).

In between is the important role of the witch Bellatrix Lestrange in the last four films of the saga of Harry Potter, directed by David Yates between 2007 and 2011, but above all a new double Oscar and Golden Globe nomination as a supporting character for The king’s speech (2010), where is Queen Elizabeth.

Lately, after small roles in blockbusters Les Misérables is The Lone Ranger, she returned to work directing Kenneth Branagh in Cinderella (2015), where she even plays the role of the Fairy.