Helena Bonham Carter got it numerous film awards including Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations. Let’s find out about his history and the successful projects he has participated in.
Who is it Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is a British actress.
He grew up in a neighborhood of the English capital together with his father a banker and his mother a psychotherapist. Both parents come from important families and in fact he can boast a great-grandfather prime minister, a painter grandmother and a diplomatic grandfather. Aside from the remarkable family tree, Helena does not start her life in well-being considering her mother’s nervous breakdown when she was only 5 years old, and her father’s paralysis that came a few years later following complex brain surgery.
During his father’s hospitalization, he vents his emotions through art. In fact, she wins a poetry contest that allows her to obtain a minimum of economic independence. With the money earned he decides to hire an agent and create a book so he can gradually enter the entertainment world. She gets her first part as Juliet in the Westminister school in 1982, but is officially remembered for the drama “A Rose Garden”.
The beginning of the career of Helena Bonham Carter
The first movie in which he participates and with which he gets the part of the protagonist dates back to 1986 and is called “Lady Jane”. This is followed by “Camera con vista” which, although it is filmed after “Lady Jane”, is distributed first and therefore this is actually the film project with which it really presents itself to the public. The success is immediate, both from the public and the critics, who appreciate her very much in this project alongside Judi Dench and Meggie Smith. After the onset phase in his hometown, leaves for the United States where he takes part in the TV series “Miami Vice”.
Get back go for the big screen acting in “Hamlet” alongside Mel Gibson, “Monteriano – Where the angels dare not set foot” and “Casa Howard”. In the following decade, the big offers from Hollywood began to arrive, which officially gave it the expected fame. In fact, he took part in 1994 in “Frankenstein by Mary Shelley” with Robert De Niro, “The goddess of love” directed by director Woody Allen, but also in the famous “Fight Club” by David Fincher alongside Brad Pitt.
The new millennium is fundamental for her as it creates a strong artistic and loving partnership with the great Tim Burton. In fact, she was chosen for “Planet of the Apes”, then for “Big Fish”, “The Chocolate Factory” and “Sweenet Todd – The diabolical barber of Fleet Street”. To bring her even more success, however, is the role of Bellatrix in the Harry Potter saga which sees it present in 4 films of the series.
Helena Bonham Carter between success and private life
Over the years Carter is declared as one of the best British actresses of all time, sharing the rankings with Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and many more. He also gets his own second Oscar nomination in 2010 with “The king’s speech” where she plays the wife of George VI. He will repeat the collaboration with actor Tom Hooper also shortly after with “Les Misérables”. Among his greatest hits they also remember that of the Red Queen in “Alice Through the Looking Glass” and of Princess Margaret in the acclaimed TV series “The Crown”.
As for his private life, from 1994 to 1999 he had an affair with Kenneth Branagh followed shortly thereafter by the aforementioned history with Tim Burton. The two had two children together who witnessed their separation in 2014. Tim and Helena, however, have declared that it is a peaceful break that does not want to put the relationship with their children in difficulty.