Helena bonham carter biography

Helena bonham carter

Intro

Helena bonham carter is an actress of great talent.

She was born on may the 26th 1966 in golders green, london, england.She was the youngest of three.Her parents were Elena and Raymond bonham carter.She has acted in many movies which have all been successful and amazing movies, such as Alice in wonderland and Cinderella. She has two children who are Nell burton  and Billy Raymond Burton   bonham carter. She is married to Jim burton and together they are a happy family.Most of her other family are also famous.

Birth & Childhood

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena, and Raymond Bonham Carter Bonham Carter experiencing family dramas during her childhood, including her father's stroke - which left him wheelchair-bound. She attended South Hampstead High School and Westminster School in London, and subsequently devoted herself to an acting career. That trajectory actually began in 1979 when, at age thirteen, she entered a national poetry writing competition and used her second place winnings to place her photo in the casting director "Spotlight." She soon had her first agent and her first acting job, in a commercial, at age sixteen.

Career Highlights

She is often reffered to as the "corset queen" or "English rose" because of her early work, Bonham Carter continued to surprise audiences with magnificent performances in a variety of roles from her more traditional corset-clad character in The Wings of the Dove and Shakespearian damsels to the dark and neurotic anti-heroines of Fight Club. The couple worked on another remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp. She also lent her voice to the title character of Burton's dark animated tale, Corpse Bride.

In 2007, Bonham Carter co-starred in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Johnny Depp, which was directed by Burton. The film was an adaptation of a popular musical and both lead actors performed their own songs for the movie. Around this time, Bonham Carter and Burton also expanded their family. The couple welcomed their second child in December of that year.

Outside of her work with Burton, Bonham Carter  appeared in the box office hit, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , the fifth installment of the film adaptations of J. K. Rowling's bestselling Harry Potter book series.

More recently, Bonham Carter starred as the Red Queen in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and she received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon in The King’s Speech. Bonham Carter also starred as Madame Thénardier in a 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables. 2013 saw her taking on the role of Red Harrington, a brothel madam in The Lone Ranger.