Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress who currently net worth is $30 million. She was born on May 26th, 1966 in London (England).
Early years.
Helena Bonham Carter comes from a high social ancestry family in Great Britain, her father Richard, was banker, and her mother Elena, who has Spanish origin, is a psychotherapist. Both parents suffered various diseases when Helena was still a teenager, her father was paralyzed, and her mother suffered a nervous breakdown. She attended South Hampstead School and Westminster School.
She is great-granddaughter of former British Prime Minister, and maternal granddaughter of the Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, apart of being granddaughter-niece of the director Anthony Asquith.
Career path
After making her debut on television, Helena achieved stardom at the age of 20 thanks to her starring role in A Room with a View (1986), a debut film directed by James Ivory, who adapted writer E. M. Forster’s story. She later would return to participate in different filmic adaptations of this writer’s work, such as Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), by Charles Sturridge, or Return to Howards End (1992), a title directed again by Ivory.
For her portrayal in Iain Softley’s film The Wings of the Dove (1997), which adapted a novel by Henry James, she received a Golden Globe nomination, and she was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. She was again nominated for an Oscar, this time in the Supporting Actress category for her role as Isabel Bowes-Lyon, in Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech (2010), which focuses on the story of King George VI of the United Kingdom and his stuttering.
Tim Burton’s muse.
A multi-faceted actress, Helena is considered, apart from her ex-partner, Tim Burton’s muse, who directed her in films such as The Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dark Shadows (2012); Films that have been characterized by the presence of imaginary worlds where gothic and dark elements are usually present.
In addition to her collaborations with Burton, Helena is also known for her characterization of Bellatrix Lestrange, a literary character in the Harry Potter novels, in her fifth (2007), sixth (2009), seventh (2010) and eighth (2011) Cinematographic.
Personal life
She was couple of the actor and director Kenneth Branagh between 1994 and 1999, and was also Tim Burton’s, whom she met during the shooting of The Planet of the Apes (2001) and with which she has two children: Billy Ray (born in 2003) And Nell (born in 2007). On December 23, 2014, she announced that she was amicably separated with Burton.
In 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
