Helena Bonham Carter, actress of high ancestry

When future actress Helena Bonhan Carter (London, May 26, 1966) was born, she found herself with a wonderful family tree. He came from a family of highly social origins in Great Britain, where his father Richard was a banker and his mother, Elena, of Hispanic descent, was a psychiatrist. Both parents suffered from various diseases when Helena was still a teenager, her father was paralyzed and her mother had a nervous breakdown. She is also the paternal granddaughter of former British Prime Minister HH Asquith and granddaughter of the father of Spanish diplomat Eduardo Proper de Callejon, as well as the niece of director Anthony Asquith. And she had an aunt Lilian, a French philanthropist married to Baron de Rothschild. She was destined to embroider her interpretations of period characters.

It is clear that he did not go hungry and was able to devote himself to his vocation without problems. Helena made her acting debut in the television adaptation of “A Pattern of Roses” before getting her first leading role in “Lady Jane”, and achieved stardom at the age of 20, in 1986, thanks to her leading role in “A Room with”. Show ‘, a film directed by James Ivory, who adapted a story by writer E.M. Forster. Later, he would return to participate in several film adaptations of this author’s work, such as “Where Angels Do Not Venture” (1991), by Charles Sturridge or “Return to Howards End” (1992), a title again directed by Ivory. For her performance in Iain Softley’s The Wings of the Dove (1997) which adapted a novel by Henry James, she earned a Golden Globe nomination, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

She was nominated for an Academy Award again, this time in the Supporting Actress category for her role as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech (2010), which focused on the story of King George VI of the United States. Kingdom and stutter. Her popularity increased when she was hired to play the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange in the “Harry Potter” saga in her Fifth (2007), Sixth (2009) and Seventh (2010-2011) films.

She was a partner of actor and director Kenneth Branna between 1994 and 1999. During the filming of “Back to the Howards End” (1992), Helena encountered a strange situation. He was working alongside Emma Thompson at a time when the two actresses were in love with Kenneth Branagh. Emma won an Oscar, but Helena won the affection for Prana, with whom she lived for five years. In that period we were able to see her in “Frankenstein” (1994), “Mighty Aphrodite” (1995) and “Fight Club” (1999).

Bonham Carter later became a partner of Tim Burton, whom he met during the filming of Planet of the Apes (2001) and has two children: Billy Ray and Neil. From that moment on she became his inspiration and was a regular in Burton’s films: “Big Fish”, the cartoon “Corpse Bride”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, “Alice in Wonderland” or Dark Shadows, films that feature fantasy worlds where there are usually gothic and dark elements. De Burton separated in 2007, and her last known partner was writer Rye Dag Holmboe.

In 2012, she played Miss Havisham in “Great Expectations” and Madame Thenardier in “Les Miserables” and was awarded the OBE. In 2013, he acted in the films The Lone Ranger and The Extraordinary Journey of TS Spivet. Additionally, Elizabeth Taylor has been in a BBC miniseries about Liz’s stormy affair with Richard Burton, and most recently appeared as Princess Margaret, sister of British Queen Elizabeth II, in the series The Crown.

In 2022 we will see him in “Enola Holmes 2” and in the series “Call My Agent”. From perspective, he has “Not Bloody Likely,” a film that will adapt a play by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Joel Hopkins, in which Pierce Brosnan will be his partner.