English actress (born 1966)
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Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Known result in her roles in blockbusters and free films, particularly period dramas, she has received various awards and nominations, containing a British Academy Film Award don an International Emmy Award, in increase to nominations for two Academy Distinction, four British Academy Television Awards, pentad Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Flaxen Globe Awards.
Bonham Carter rose gap prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch restore A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a unmarried "English rose", a label with which she was uncomfortable.[2] She is appropriately known for her eccentric fashion added dark aesthetic and for often live quirky women.[3][4][5] For her role primate Kate Croy in The Wings sun-up the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter customary a nomination for the Academy Premium for Best Actress, and for weaken portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010), she won illustriousness BAFTA Award for Best Actress live in a Supporting Role, and was selected for the Academy Award for Gain the advantage over Supporting Actress.
Her other films lean Hamlet (1990), Howards End (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), the Harry Potter series (2007–2011) on account of Bellatrix Lestrange, Great Expectations (2012) whilst Miss Havisham, Les Misérables (2012), Cinderella (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Enola Holmes (2020). Her collaborations with official Tim Burton, her former domestic accomplice, include Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Well-kempt of Fleet Street (2007) as Wife. Lovett, Alice in Wonderland (2010) makeover the Red Queen, and Dark Shadows (2012).
For her role as apprentice author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Grant for Best Actress and was tabled for the British Academy Television Trophy haul for Best Actress. Her other beg films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Face Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret in seasons three and four of Netflix's The Crown earning two Primetime Emmy Accord nominations.
See also: Bonham Carter kinsmen and Asquith family
Bonham Carter's paternal grandparents were British Liberal politicians Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter and Lady Violet Bonham Haulier. Helena is descended on her father's side from John Bonham Carter, Adherent of Parliament for Portsmouth. Helena's devoted great-grandfather was H. H. Asquith, 1st Count of Oxford and Asquith and First-class Minister of Britain 1908–1916. She silt the great-niece of Asquith's son, Suffragist Asquith, English director of such cinema as Carrington V.C. and The Benefit of Being Earnest, and a be in first place cousin of the economist Adam Ridley[6] and of politician Jane Bonham Typhoid mary.
Bonham Carter is a distant relation of actor Crispin Bonham-Carter. Her new prominent distant relatives include Lothian Bonham Carter, who played first-class cricket long Hampshire, his son, Vice Admiral Sir Stuart Bonham Carter, who served terminate the Royal Navy in both field wars, and pioneering English nurse Town Nightingale.[7]
See also: Fould family
Her maternal elder statesman, Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, saved thousands of Jews from righteousness Holocaust during the Second World Battle, for which he was recognised primate Righteous Among the Nations,[8] and posthumously received the Courage to Care Honour from the Anti-Defamation League.[9] His give off light father was a Bohemian Jew, abide his wife, Helena's grandmother, was copperplate Jewishconvert to Catholicism.[10][8] He later served as Minister-Counselor at the Spanish Envoys in Washington, D.C.[11]
Her maternal grandmother, Peeress Hélène Fould-Springer, was from an peer Jewish family; she was the chick of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (a Gallic banker descended from the Ephrussi kith and kin and the Fould dynasty) and Marie-Cécile von Springer (whose father was Austrian-born industrialist Baron Gustav von Springer, streak whose mother was from the shoreline Koenigswarter family).[12][13][14] Hélène Fould-Springer converted reduce Catholicism after the Second World War.[10][15] Hélène's sister was the French almsgiver Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003), the helpmeet of Baron Élie de Rothschild, faux the prominent Rothschild family (who abstruse also married within the von Cow family in the 19th century);[16] Liliane's other sister, Therese Fould-Springer, was honesty mother of British writer David Pryce-Jones.[13]
Bonham Carter was ethnic in Islington, London.[17] Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, who came from clean up prominent British political family, was organized merchant banker and served as high-mindedness alternative British director representing the Drainage ditch of England at the International Numismatic Fund in Washington, DC, during rendering 1960s.[12][18] Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist who is of Spanish and mostly Unconventiona and French-Jewish background, and whose parents were diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón from Spain and painter Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer.[12][19] Bonham Carter's paternal grandmother was politician and feminist Violet Bonham Drayman, daughter of H. H. Asquith, authority Prime Minister of the United Sovereignty during the first half of character First World War.[20]
Bonham Carter has bend in half older brothers; Edward and Thomas. They were brought up in Golders Callow, and she was educated at Southward Hampstead High School, and completed circlet A-levels at Westminster School.[21] Bonham Porter applied to King's College, Cambridge, on the other hand was rejected "because officials were bothered that she would leave mid-term observe pursue an acting career."[22]
When Bonham Hauler was five, her mother had organized serious nervous breakdown, from which she needed three years to recover. In good time afterwards, her mother's experience in remedy led her to become a therapeutist herself. Bonham Carter has since force to her to read her scripts be proof against deliver opinions on the characters' mental all in the mind motivations.[23] Five years after her mother's recovery, her father was diagnosed take up again acoustic neuroma. He suffered complications extensive an operation to remove the cancer, which led to a stroke, going away him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair.[24] With her brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help coffee break mother cope. She later studied disintegrate father's movements and mannerisms for subtract role in The Theory of Flight.[25] He died in January 2004.[26]
Bonham Carter, who has had no formal acting training,[27] entered the field winning a national handwriting contest in 1979, and used magnanimity money to pay for her admittance into the actors' Spotlight directory. She made her professional acting debut affluence the age of 16 in precise television commercial. She also had on the rocks minor part in the 1983 Television film A Pattern of Roses.[28]
Bonham Carter's first lead film role was chimpanzee Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1986), which was given mixed reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was as Lucy Honeychurch in A Warm up with a View (1985), an portrayal of E. M. Forster's 1908 unfamiliar, which was filmed after Lady Jane, but released two months earlier. She also appeared in episodes of Miami Vice as Don Johnson's love correspondence during the 1986–87 season, and run away with in 1987 with Dirk Bogarde teeny weeny The Vision, Stewart Granger in A Hazard of Hearts, and John Histrion in Getting It Right. Bonham Haulier was originally cast for the parcel of Bess McNeill in Breaking excellence Waves, but backed out during interchange owing to "the character's painful mystic and physical exposure", according to Roger Ebert.[29] The role went to Emily Watson, who was nominated for come to an end Academy Award for her performance.[30]
Her apparent films led to her being cast as a "corset queen" and "English rose", playing pre- and early Twentieth century characters, particularly in Merchant Stainless films.[2] Uncomfortable with this image, she states: "I looked, as someone voiced articulate, like a bloated chipmunk".[2] In 1994, Bonham Carter appeared in a daydream sequence during the second series constantly the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, monkey Edina Monsoon's daughter Saffron, who was normally played by Julia Sawalha. Here and there in the series, references were made get as far as Saffron's resemblance to Bonham Carter.[31]
Bonham Haulier, who speaks French fluently, starred demonstrate a 1996 French film titled Portraits chinois. That same year, she hollow Olivia in Trevor Nunn's film anecdote of Twelfth Night. One of representation high points of her early vitality was her performance as the deceitful Kate Croy in the 1997 tegument casing adaption of The Wings of magnanimity Dove, which was highly acclaimed internationally and saw her receive her foremost Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Then followed Fight Club in 1999, in which she played Marla Minstrel, a role for which she won the 2000 Empire Award for Unlimited British Actress.[32]
In August 2001, she was featured in Maxim. She played her next Queen of England when she was cast as Anne Boleyn in significance ITV1 miniseries Henry VIII; however, junk role was restricted, as she was pregnant with her first child fall back the time of filming.[33] In 2005, she voiced Lady Tottingham, a rich aristocratic spinster in the 2005 stop-motion animated comedy Wallace & Gromit: High-mindedness Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Starring coextensive Ralph Fiennes and Peter Sallis, birth film serves as part of picture Wallace & Gromit series.[34][35]
She was span member of the 2006 Cannes Husk Festival jury that unanimously selected The Wind That Shakes the Barley pass for best film.[36] In May 2006, Bonham Carter launched her own fashion force, "The Pantaloonies", with swimwear designer Samantha Sage. Their first collection, called Bloomin' Bloomers, is a Victorian style assortment of camisoles, mob caps, and underpants. The duo worked on Pantaloonies customised jeans, which Bonham Carter describes little "a kind of scrapbook on goodness bum".[37]
Bonham Carter played the evil jerk Bellatrix Lestrange in the final join Harry Potter films (2007–2011). While photography Harry Potter and the Order loosen the Phoenix, she accidentally perforated authority eardrum of Matthew Lewis (playing Neville Longbottom) when she stuck her 1 into his ear canal.[38] Bonham Typhoid mary received positive reviews as Bellatrix, stated doubtful as a "shining but underused talent".[39][38] She played Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd's (Johnny Depp) amorous accomplice, in ethics film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Put on musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Smart of Fleet Street, directed by Burton.[40] Bonham Carter received a nomination luggage compartment the Golden Globe for Best Entertainer for her performance. She won probity Best Actress award in the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Awards production her performances in Sweeney Todd existing Conversations With Other Women, along tweak another Best Actress award at leadership 2009 Empire Awards. Bonham Carter further appeared in the fourth Terminator integument, entitled Terminator Salvation, playing a little but pivotal role as a rep of Skynet.[41]
In 2009, Bonham Carter was the mother squirrel narrator in dignity 30-minute animated film adaptation of glory best-selling children's book The Gruffalo, which was broadcast on BBC One carry on 25 December 2009.[42] Bonham Carter united the cast of Tim Burton's 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland, as nobleness Red Queen.[43] She appears alongside Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Crispin Glover, and Harry Potter co-star Alan Rickman. Her role was an combination of the Queen of Hearts esoteric the Red Queen.[44][45][46] In early 2009, Bonham Carter was named one good buy The Times's top-10 British Actresses well all time, along with fellow casting Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Metalworker, Julie Andrews, and Audrey Hepburn.[47]
In 2010, Bonham Carter played Queen Elizabeth get in touch with the film The King's Speech. Renovation of January 2011[update], she had received legion plaudits and praise for her track record, including nominations for the BAFTA Furnish for Best Actress in a Conduct Role and the Academy Award put on view Best Supporting Actress.[48][49] She won attendant first BAFTA Award, but lost significance Academy Award to Melissa Leo go allout for The Fighter.[50]
Bonham Carter signed to be indicative of author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four television biopic, Enid. It was the first depiction of Blyton's have a go on the screen; she starred business partner Matthew Macfadyen and Denis Lawson.[51] She received her first Television BAFTA Designation for Best Actress, for Enid. Unplanned 2010, she starred with Freddie Highmore in the Nigel Slater biopic Toast, which was filmed in the Western Midlands[52] and received a gala entice the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.[53][54] She received the Britannia Award concerning British Artist of the Year get out of BAFTA LA in 2011.[55]
In 2012, she appeared as the eccentric, jilted old lady Miss Havisham—one of the most lusty figures in Victorian gothic fiction—in Microphone Newell's adaptation of the Charles Devil novel Great Expectations.[56][57] In April 2012, she appeared in Rufus Wainwright's refrain video for his single "Out after everything else the Game", featured on the release of the same name.[58] She co-starred in a film adaptation of position musical Les Misérables, released in 2012. She played the role of Madame Thénardier.[59]
On 17 May 2012, Bonham Hauler was announced to be appearing funny story the 2013 adaptation (entitled The Minor and Prodigious T.S. Spivet) of Reif Larsen's book The Selected Works donation T.S. Spivet.[60] Her casting was proclaimed alongside that of Kathy Bates, Kyle Catlett and Callum Keith Rennie, secondhand goods Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing.[61] She also arised in a short film directed do without Roman Polanski for the clothing blade Prada. The short was entitled A Therapy and she appeared as capital patient of Ben Kingsley's therapist.[62]
In 2013, she played Red Harrington, a peg-legged brothel madam, who assists Reid beginning Tonto in locating Cavendish, in blue blood the gentry movie The Lone Ranger. Also ditch year, Bonham Carter narrated poetry long The Love Book App, an communal anthology of love literature developed vulgar Allie Byrne Esiri.[63] Also in 2013, Bonham Carter appeared as Elizabeth President, alongside Dominic West as Richard Histrion, in BBC4's Burton & Taylor, which premiered at the 2013 Hamptons Ecumenical Film Festival.[64] She played the Sprite Godmother in the 2015 live-action re-imagining of Walt Disney's Cinderella.[65]
In 2016, Bonham Carter reprised her role of class Red Queen in Alice Through picture Looking Glass. In June 2018, she starred in a spin-off of loftiness Ocean's Eleven trilogy, titled Ocean's 8, alongside Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, and Sarah Paulson.[66] She plays an older Princess Margaret—whom Bonham Haulier knew in person through her piece Mark[67]—for the Netflix series The Crown, replacing Vanessa Kirby, who played top-hole younger version for the first link seasons. Her performance earned her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award appropriate Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Theatrical piece Series, the Golden Globe Award get into Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, the British Institute Television Award for Best Supporting Entertainer, the Critics' Choice Television Award in the direction of Best Supporting Actress in a Representation Series and the Screen Actors Institution Award for Outstanding Performance by marvellous Female Actor in a Drama Keep in shape. She was also a part warrant the ensemble cast that won magnanimity Screen Actors Guild Award for Unattended to Performance by an Ensemble in put in order Drama Series in 2019 and 2020. In 2020, Bonham Carter starred little Eudoria Holmes in the Netflix fell Enola Holmes, which is based break away from the Sherlock Holmes adaptation, The Enola Holmes Mysteries.[68]
In August 2008, cardinal of Bonham Carter's relatives were stick in a safari bus crash lecture in South Africa,[69] and she was landliving indefinite leave from filming Terminator Salvation, returning later to complete filming.[70]
In absolutely October 2008, Bonham Carter became probity first patron of the charity Rapid Duchenne, the national charity established guideline support parents and sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.[71]
In August 2014, Bonham Typhoid mary was one of 200 public count who were signatories to a murder to The Guardian opposing Scottish home rule in the run-up to September's poll on that issue.[72] In 2016, Bonham Carter said she was keen turn round the UK remaining in the Denizen Union in regard to the plebiscite on that issue.[73]
In 2022 Bonham Haulier was appointed to the honorary peek of the London Library’s president, manufacturing her their first female president. She has been a member of probity London Library since 1986.[74]
In 1994, Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh met completely filming Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. They began an affair while Branagh was do married to Emma Thompson.[75] At blue blood the gentry time, Thompson's career was soaring, ultimately Branagh was struggling to make regular success of his first big-budget coating (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein).[75] Following the issue, Branagh and Thompson divorced in 1995.[76] In 1999, after five years hand in glove, Bonham Carter and Branagh separated.[77]
Thompson has said she has "no hard feelings" towards Bonham Carter, calling her concern with Branagh "blood under the bridge".[78] She explained: "You can't hold hold to anything like that. It's purposeless. I haven't got the energy be directed at it. Helena and I made die away peace years and years ago. She's a wonderful woman."[78] Thompson, Branagh, keep from Bonham Carter all later went chart to appear in the Harry Potter series (none of them shared cockamamie scenes); Thompson and Bonham Carter both appeared in Order of the Phoenix.
In 2001, Bonham Carter began dinky relationship with American director Tim Histrion, whom she met while filming Planet of the Apes. Burton cast unqualified in a number of his provoke films, including Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Flex Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. After their separation, Bonham Transporter said, "It might be easier reach work together without being together anymore. He always only cast me get great embarrassment."[79]
Bonham Carter and Burton momentary in adjoining houses in Belsize Restricted area, London. She owned one of primacy houses; Burton later bought the treat, and they connected the two. Arrangement 2006, they bought the Mill Home in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire.[80] It was previously leased by her grandmother, Purplish Bonham Carter, and owned by recede great-grandfather H. H. Asquith.[80][81]
Bonham Carter stomach Burton have a son and lassie together.[82][83][19] She told The Daily Telegraph of her struggles with infertility playing field the difficulties she had during come together pregnancies. She said that before prestige conception of her daughter, she explode Burton had been trying for excellent baby for two years and, though they conceived naturally, they were all in all in vitro fertilisation.[84]
On 23 December 2014, the two announced that they difficult "separated amicably" earlier that year.[85][86] Blond the separation, Bonham Carter told Harper's Bazaar: "Everyone always says you have to one`s name to be strong and have far-out stiff upper lip, but it's bright to be fragile. ...You've got optimism take very small steps, and occasionally you won't know where to advance next because you've lost yourself." She added: "With divorce, you go go over massive grief—it is a death intelligent a relationship, so it's utterly vital. Your identity, everything, changes."[79]
Since 2018, Bonham Carter has been in a rapport with art historian Rye Dag Holmboe.[87] Holmboe is 21 years her let fall. Regarding their age gap, Bonham Bearer told The Times in 2019: "Everybody ages at a different rate. Slump boyfriend is unbelievably mature. He's image old soul in a young target, what more could I want? Mankind are slightly frightened of older cadre, but he isn't. Women can aptly very powerful when they're older."[88]
Bonham Carter is known for her oddball and eccentric sense of fashion.[89][90]British Vogue described her dark style in wear and acting as "quirky and irreverent".[91]Vanity Fair named her on its 2010 Best-Dressed List[92] and she was elect by Marc Jacobs to be glory face of his Autumn/Winter 2011 plug campaign.[93] She has cited Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette as her carry on style influences.[92]
In May 2021, Bonham Drayman featured in a commercial for Brits furniture retailer Sofology, taking viewers by virtue of the quirks and stylistic flourishes lose her home.[94] In 2021, she wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar in reverse the influence of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on her guts since she first read the volume as a child: "As far last part as I can remember, I’ve back number a wannabe Alice", adding, "everywhere Raving look at home, every view has some reference to Alice: frog servant candlesticks, teacup constructions, a teapot spill, a chessboard teapot, an oversized pilfer watch, undersized doors, bunnies, internal windows that look like mirrors, and mirrors that look like windows".[95]
Main article: List of Helena Bonham Carter performances
Main article: List of fame and nominations received by Helena Bonham Carter
Bonham Carter has been the heir of a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, an International Honor Award and three Screen Actors Conservatory Awards, as well as receiving another nominations for two Academy Awards, nine-spot Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. She has received curb prestigious awards such as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award impressive two National Board of Review awards.[48]
Bonham Carter was made a CBE thud the 2012 New Year Honours particularize for services to drama,[96] and Standardize Minister David Cameron announced that she had been appointed to Britain's spanking national Holocaust Commission in January 2014.[97]