Helena Bonham Carter - Hollywood Life Home › Celebs › Helena Bonham Carter Helena Bonham Carter Date of Birth: May 26, 1966 Hometown: London, United Kingdom “I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.” “I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.” “If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.” Bio: Helena Bonham Carter (born Helena Bonham Carter in Golders Green, London on May 26, 1966) is an actress best known for starring in films like: A Room With A View, Fight Club, The Kings Speech and as Belatrix in the Harry Potter films. She has starred in several of her longtime partner, Tim Burton’s films: Sweeney Todd, Dark Shadows and Big Fish. Best Known For: Best known for starring in Richard Burton’s films and being married to the famous director. Personal Life: Helena met Tim Burton in 2001 when they were filming Planet of the Apes. Together they have two children, Billy Raymond Burton and Nell Burton.

In December of 2014 it was reported that they had decided to separate. Helena Bonham Carter - Biography - IMDb Helena Bonham Carter Jump to: Overview (2) | Mini Bio (1) | Trade Mark (6) | Trivia (55) | Personal Quotes (15) Overview (2) 5' 2" (1.57 m) Mini Bio (1) Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful. Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker. Through her father, she is the great-granddaughter of former Prime Minister Herbert H. Asquith, and her blue-blooded family tree also contains Barons and Baronesses, diplomats, and a director, Bonham Carter's great-uncle Anthony Asquith , who made Pygmalion (1938) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), among others.

Cousin Crispin Bonham-Carter is also an actor. Her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejón, was a Spanish diplomat who was awarded the honorific Righteous Among the Nations, by Israel, for helping save Jews during World War II (Eduardo's own father was a Czech Jew). Helena's maternal grandmother, Hélène Fould-Springer, was from an upper-class Jewish family from France, Austria, and Germany, and later converted to her husband's Catholic faith. 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 directory "Spotlight." She soon had her first agent and her first acting job, in a commercial, at age sixteen.

She then landed a role in the made-for-TV movie A Pattern of Roses (1983), which subsequently led to her casting in the Merchant Ivory films A Room with a View (1985), director James Ivory 's tasteful adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, and Lady Jane (1986), giving a strong performance as the uncrowned Queen of England. She had roles in three other productions under the Merchant-Ivory banner (director Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant , and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ): an uncredited appearance in Maurice (1987), and large roles in Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) and Howards End (1992). Often referred 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 (1997) and Shakespearian damsels to the dark and neurotic anti-heroines of Fight Club (1999).

Her acclaimed performance in The Wings of the Dove (1997) earned her a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination, a BAFTA Best Actress nomination, and a SAG Awards Best Actress nomination. It also won her a Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Boston Society Film Critics, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Texas Society of Film Critics, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association. In the late 1990s, Bonham Carter embarked on the next phase of her career, moving from capable actress to compelling star. Audiences and critics had long been enchanted by her delicate beauty, evocative of another time and place.

Her late '90s and early and mid 2000s roles included Mick Jackson 's Live from Baghdad (2002), alongside Michael Keaton , receiving a nomination for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe; Paul Greengrass ' The Theory of Flight (1998), in which she played a victim of motor neurone disease; Trevor Nunn 's Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996), in which she played Olivia; opposite Woody Allen in his Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Mort Ransen 's Margaret's Museum (1995); Kenneth Branagh 's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994); and Franco Zeffirelli 's Hamlet (1990). Other notable credits include her appearance with Steve Martin in Novocaine (2001), Tim Burton 's remake of Planet of the Apes, in which she played an ape, Thaddeus O'Sullivan 's The Heart of Me (2002), opposite Paul Bettany , and Big Fish (2003), her second effort with Tim Burton, in which she appeared as a witch.

In between her films, Helena has managed a few television appearances, which include her portrayal of Jacqui Jackson in Magnificent 7 (2005), the tale of a mother struggling to raise seven children - three daughters and four autistic boys; as Anne Boleyn in the two parter biopic of Henry VIII starring Ray Winstone; and as Morgan Le Fey, alongside Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson, in Merlin. Earlier television appearances include Michael Mann's Miami Vice (1984) as Don Johnson's junkie fiancée, and as a stripper who wins Rik Mayall's heart in Dancing Queen (1993). Helena has also appeared on stage, in productions of Trelawney of the Wells, The Barber of Seville, House of Bernarda Alba, The Chalk Garden, and Woman in White. Bonham Carter was nominated for a Golden Globe for the fifth time for her role in partner Tim Burton's film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), for which Burton and co-star Johnny Depp were also nominated.

For the role, she was awarded Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2008. Other 2000s work includes playing Mrs Bucket in Tim Burton's massive hit Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), providing the voices for the aristocratic Lady Campanula Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and for the eponymous dead heroine in Tim Burton's spooky Corpse Bride (2005), and co-starring in Conversations with Other Women (2005) opposite Aaron Eckhart . Since their meeting while filming Planet of the Apes (2001), Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have made seven movies together. They live in adjoining residences in London, sharing a connecting hallway, and have two children: Billy Ray Burton, 4, and Nell Burton, who was born December 15, 2007. Ironically, a mutual love of Sweeney Todd was part of the initial attraction for the pair. Despite that, Bonham Carter has said in numerous interviews that her audition process for the role of Mrs.

Lovett was the most grueling of her career and that, ultimately, it was Sondheim who she had to convince that she was right for the role. Often works with director Tim Burton , Timothy Spall and Johnny Depp Often plays eccentric characters Often plays pre-20th century characters Curvaceous figure Wild messy hair and dark makeup Unique offbeat style of dress with lots of black clothing Trivia (55) (1994 - September 1999) Lived with Kenneth Branagh . Carter is descended from a very distinguished family. She is the great-granddaughter of H.H. Asquith , British Prime Minister (1908-1916) and her great-grandmother is Violet Bonham Carter , a British activist who was, at one time, engaged to one of her father's protégées, Winston Churchill . When Churchill decided to marry his ultimate wife Clemintine, Violet was involved in a fall off a cliff, the circumstances of which have been questioned for a century. However, she did survive and went on to a distinguished political career, including advisor to Churchill. Carter is also the grand-niece of distinguished British director Anthony Asquith .

She is a first cousin of Baroness Jane Bonham-Carter , and only a distant cousin of Crispin Bonham-Carter : Crispin's father, Peter Malcolm Bonham-Carter, is a third cousin of Helena Bonham Carter. The first ancestors that Crispin and Helena have in common, are John Bonham-Carter (1788-1838) and his wife Joanna Maria Smith (1791-1884). Her father was severely paralyzed by botched brain surgery in the 1980s. Speaks French fluently. She was denied admission to King's College, Cambridge University, not because of her grades or her test scores but because school officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue her acting career. Because of Cambridge's rejection, Helena decided to concentrate fully on acting. She is the granddaughter of Violet Bonham Carter , a Life Peeress in her own right, and the niece of Mark Bonham-Carter , who was created a Life Peer in his own right as well. Her half-Spanish mother 'Elena Propper de Callejon' is niece of Baroness Liliane de Rothschild, née Fould-Springer.

As of May 2014, Carter has been cast to play her grandmother in Oliver Hirschbiegel 's adaptation of Barbara Tuchman history of World War I, The Guns of August . Planned to return to the West End with an appearance in "Rubenstein's Kiss"; however, the play was delayed because of her busy schedule. The production, also set to star Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet fame, was due to open in November 2004 but has now been postponed. In 2005, her voice appeared in two stop-motion animated films. They were Corpse Bride (2005) and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). Both films were nominated for the Academy award for best animated film. The award went to Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. In May 2006, she launched her own fashion line, "The Pantaloonies," with swimwear designer Samantha Sage. Their first collection, called Bloomin' Bloomers, is a Victoriana style selection of camisoles, mop caps and bloomers.

The duo are now working on Pantaloonies customized jeans which Helena describes as "a kind of scrapbook on the bum.". Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. Turned down the role of Bess in Breaking the Waves (1996) due to the sexual content. The role went to Emily Watson who was nominated for an Oscar for that role. She is the daughter of a prominent British banker and the great-granddaughter of Asquith, the Liberal prime minister. Her brother Edward is married to TV presenter Victoria Studd . Is close friends with Johnny Depp , who often works with her fiancé, Tim Burton . In fact, Depp is the godfather of her child with Burton, Billy Ray. Was cast as Bellatrix Lestrange after Helen McCrory became pregnant, and would have been nearly full-term when her scenes were shot. She returned to the role for one scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), opposite McCrory as her sister Narcissa Malfoy. Ironically, Carter was able to be in this scene because it was scheduled to be filmed after she gave birth to her own child.

Ranked #99 on the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture". Given indefinite leave from the set of Terminator Salvation in New Mexico after her relatives were on a South African safari holiday on Wednesday, 20 August, 2008, when the minibus they were travelling in spun out of control and flipped after a tyre burst. Helena's cousin, Fiona Bonham Carter, 51, escaped with a broken shoulder but Fiona's son Marcus Egerton-Warburton, 14; mother Brenda, 74; stepfather Francis Kirkwood, 75; and sister-in-law Kay Boardman, 54, all died. Tested for the role of Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy (1986). She based her performance of Marla Singer in Fight Club (1999) on Judy Garland in the later stages of her life. To help her get into the mindset, director David Fincher would often call her Judy on-set. A fight between her and Gary Oldman in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) was cut from the final film.

She had been training for three weeks for the fight. Describes her character in the Harry Potter films, Bellatrix Lestrange, as a sadist and a racist, obsessed with blood purity. Underwent extensive vocal lessons and studied baking in preparation for her role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Was originally going to appear as a cyborg in Terminator Salvation (2009) which would match her former choices of eccentric characters. However, the script was leaked online and her character got rewritten and her screen time significantly cut down, and her character changed. Returned to work two months after giving birth to her daughter Nell in order to begin filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). Returned to work eight months after giving birth to her son Billy Ray in order to begin filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Became romantically involved with her director Tim Burton after their Planet of the Apes (2001) wrapped. Instead of moving in with her in her Hampstead home in London, Burton bought two next-door houses which the couple both share today (2010).

In 1992, she was starring in "Trelawny of the Wells" on stage, when the Independent theatre critic Paul Taylor said that he would have been able to have appreciated her performance more from a restricted-viewing seat. Bonham Carter calmly wrote him a letter suggesting that the next time he came to see her he ought to let her know, so she might ensure that was the case. In 2009, The Times named her one of the Top 10 British Actresses of all-time. Close friends with Liberal Democrat leader and politician Nick Clegg since their days at Westminster School, London, England. Spent 2010/11 New Year's Eve with her husband Tim Burton at England's Premier David Cameron home Chequers, the official country residence of British Prime Ministers since 1921. Was two months pregnant with her daughter Nell when she completed filming on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Helena's father was of English ancestry.

Helena's maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejon, was a half-Jewish/half-Catholic Spanish diplomat who helped thousands of Jews to escape Nazi-occupied France during World War II (Eduardo's maternal grandmother, who was from New Orleans, had Irish and French ancestry). Helena's maternal grandmother, Hélène Fould-Springer, was from a Jewish family (from Germany, Austria, France, Bohemia, and Ukraine). Was a potential candidate for the role of Sarah in Labyrinth (1986) before the role went to Jennifer Connelly. Her grandmother, Violet Bonham Carter, was friends with Prime Minister Winston Churchill . In The King's Speech (2010), Helena acts opposite Churchill, as played by Timothy Spall . Became the fifth actor to appear in 2 films to gross $1 billion with Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011). She is the first woman to achieve this feat. Was in a relationship with Tim Burton from 2001 to 2014. They have 2 children.

Gave birth to her first child at age 37, a son Billy Raymond Burton on October 4, 2003. Child's father is her now ex-boyfriend, Tim Burton . Gave birth to her second child at age 41, a daughter Nell Burton on December 15, 2007. Child's father is her now ex-boyfriend, Tim Burton . She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2012 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama. A distant cousin of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge . She lived with her parents in the family home until her early thirties. She claimed it was simply because she had a very good relationship with them. She and her partner Tim Burton were amazed at the ability for football their son Billy displayed at a very young age as neither of them is particularly athletic. She has played the mothers of both England's Queen Elizabeths. She played Anne Boleyn in the TV production of "Henry VIII" and then Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, in the 2010 film "The King's Speech".

British actress Natalie Dormer also played both these parts in different productions. She has played two Tudor queens who were decapitated for treason. Lady Jane Grey in Trevor Nunn's film about the tragic nine day queen, "Lady Jane" and later Anne Boleyn, in the TV production of "Henry VIII" in 2003. Hampstead, London, England [December 2011] Attended school at Westminster. As of 2014, she has appeared in 19 movies that have all received at least one Academy Award nomination. She has made six films with Johnny Depp : Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Dark Shadows (2012) and The Lone Ranger (2013).

Stated in an interview that she kept one of the wands belonging to her character, Bellatrix LeStrange, and as a joke on her son's friends, whenever they decided to make noise or trouble in the house, or if she didn't like one of them, she would get the wand and act as Bellatrix to frighten them back into line. She has two roles in common with Jean Simmons : (1) Simmons played Ophelia in Hamlet (1948) while Bonham Carter played her in Hamlet (1990) and (2) Simmons played Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1989) while Bonham Carter played her in Great Expectations (2012). Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple' | Film | The Guardian Helena Bonham Carter Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple' The actor talks about life with Tim Burton, their latest spectacular, Alice in Wonderland – and being branded a 'disastrous dresser' 'I was like the corset bimbo,' Bonham Carter says of her early days in film.

Photograph: Gustavo Papaleo Friday 5 February 2010 19.05 EST First published on Friday 5 February 2010 19.05 EST Share on Messenger Close Helena Bonham Carter fancies a drink. So she orders a double ­espresso. And a glass of fizzy water. And an apple smoothie. She looks rather ­worried when I order just a coffee. "Is that all you want?" she asks gently. Multiple drinking, she explains, is the way to a balanced diet. She admits her theory is not based on pure science. We are in the cafe just down the road from her north London home. She says she's got something to show me, and produces a freaky cardboard ­cutout of a little woman with a huge, hydro­encephalised head. "I've brought myself. It's me… in Alice." Alice In Wonderland is the ­latest movie she has made with her partner, ­director Tim ­Burton . This is their sixth ­collaboration, and ­possibly the grandest ­(it's certainly the most ­expensive, at an estimated $250m).

It's classic Burton territory – a fairytale world where adulthood is never quite attained, and innocence trails a ghoulish stench. Bonham Carter is playing nasty – a cross between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. She holds up her cardboard self and ­addresses it. "She's got Tourette's. She just says, 'Off with their heads!' all the time." Bonham Carter has not yet seen the film. ­No one has. It's a closely guarded secret. But then, you won't get far asking her about any film she's been in. In recent years, she has boycotted them. She can't stand watching herself. Nor can Johnny Depp , Burton's prettier alter ego, who plays the Mad Hatter in Alice. "Johnny doesn't watch ­anything he's in. That's slightly comforting. You think if Johnny Depp can't watch himself…" You don't look your best in Alice, I say. "No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty." Bonham Carter's career divides neatly into two ages – pre-Burton and Burton.

She seems so different from the 19-year-old who emerged in A Room With A View , and went on to be a poster girl for EM Forster, English roses and the corset ­industry. The past decade has been Burton time – increasingly wacky characters in increasingly wacky movies, from Big Fish to Charlie And The Chocolate Factory . In Sweeney Todd , she is ­wonderful as Mrs Lovett, the most adorable ­serial-killer ­sidekick in movie history. The white petticoats have long gone, replaced by black lace, black hats and black frocks; black everything. The luxuriant, pre-Raphaelite hair has become a bird's nest and the pallid complexion ghostly white. "Ageing has helped hugely," she says. "There's no question I'm a better actor, and you leave ­behind a certain typecasting. I was like the corset bimbo." She stops, has a slurp of smoothie, a bite of toastie and starts again. "Well, not quite bimbo, but you know what I mean. The corset sex symbol, I suppose.

Now I'm not going to be the sex symbol, I'm going to be the granny." She changes her mind by the mouthful. "Well, not quite granny." In those early films she came across like an ­incredibly posh, terribly British Nastassja Kinski . The irony is that she is the ultimate hybrid – as well as the Englishness, she is also part Spanish, French, Austrian, Czech and Russian. Her ­perplexed mother would ask where everybody got this notion of the highly bred British family. The answer was simple: Bonham Carter's great-grandfather was the Liberal prime minister ­Herbert Asquith . But even then, she says, people got it wrong – Asquith wasn't posh, just a clothes manufacturer with a bit of wedge. As for the ­Bonham Carters, they were old-fashioned liberals. Yes, there was once a country house, but that went decades ago when they fell on hard times. Her childhood looks privileged from a distance, but the reality was somewhat different. Her mother had a breakdown when Helena was five and didn't recover for three years (she went on to work as a psychotherapist).

Then, when she was 13, her father, a ­successful banker, suffered a stroke that left him severely disabled. As a little girl, Bonham Carter was old beyond her years. Just after her father's stroke, she found herself an agent. "I just went and got an agent ­because I thought I can create my own world – you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control." It's strange she chose acting, she says, "because I was intensely shy". She must have been confident in some way to phone an agent? "I had a determination to make things right. I was quite stubborn, and I believed that I had to become self-sufficient, to look after myself now." Was there enough money? "Well, there was, but only just. I was a mixture of ­being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. Looking back, I'd been staying ­because of my dad – to try to make it better in some way.

I thought, crazily, somehow, if I remain a child, I will make up for what happened to Dad." She made her professional debut at 16, in a TV ­commercial. Three years later, she was a film star. But she felt a fraud. She was acting alongside the likes of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith , she'd had no training and she was waiting to be exposed. "I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I thought, fuck, I can't do this. I felt I was totally bluffing it. Now I'm much easier with it because I'm ­fundamentally happy." She made films, then she'd return home, refusing to make the leap into adulthood. "I was married to my parents." In the late 1990s she starred in Fight Club , a film that changed the public's perception of her. Suddenly, the English rose was a disturbed ­American, dressed in black, blowing louche smoke rings, playing dangerous games with bad boys Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. The film was hysterically booed when it premiered at the ­Venice film festival, which she attended with her mother.

"David [Fincher, the director] was so ­depressed by the reaction, which was really ­violent, but he was cheered by Mum saying, don't you worry, it's going to be a cult film." It became a huge success. She often relies on her mother's judgment – when she gets a script, she'll give it her to read, to help her make sense of her character. She took the part in Fight Club just after her only Oscar nomination, for The Wings Of The Dove . "It was Brad's idea for me to be in it. In the six weeks when you're up for an Oscar, there's a little ­window where you're offered everything. Seventh week, when you haven't got it, you're fucked. Forget it. So you have to get in there. I was offered so many nice parts, and I went for Fight Club." I admit that Fight Club didn't make sense to me (just when we're almost done, we discover that Edward Norton's nihilistic buddy Brad Pitt is, in fact, Edward Norton). "To be honest, I didn't completely get the script," she says. "I thought, oh God, this thing could really backfire and spawn all these fight clubs.

It's not a great philosophy, not a very mature one." She stops, and says she tries to be polite about everybody she has worked with. But in the end she's just a little too honest for that. We talk about the four Harry ­Potter films she's been in, and I tell her I find them hard to ­follow, too. She nods. "To be honest, I think it's a hell of a lot of plot to fit into two hours." When she was 30, she finally felt ready to move out of her parents' Golders Green home. She stayed in north London, moving a few miles away to Hampstead. She'd had plenty of boyfriends, ­including Kenneth Branagh , but had never lived with anybody. "I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr Right moved in next door?'" Eventually, he did. During the filming of Planet Of The Apes , the first time she worked with ­Burton, Bonham Carter barely talked to him.

The only thing she remembers him saying to her is that he knew he wanted her as one of his apes, and that he had once lived in Hampstead and it was the only place in the world he'd felt at home. After the film was finished, when she was 35, they began a relationship and he bought the house next door. Actually, the two houses next door. They have two children, six-year-old Billy Ray and two-year-old Nell. ­Burton still lives next door. Once she got together with Burton, Bonham Carter's image was transformed. They were often photographed together in black, their complexions equally pale, hair equally scruffy. She'd be snapped pushing the kids up the hill looking as if she'd just stepped out of bed. After giving birth, she was happy to have photographs released showing the saggy bits. It became de rigueur to be rude about her appearance. But however unkempt or flabby she was, she still looked lovely. "I'm ­often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!" I think she half likes it – it's an escape from the pretty-prettiness of her youth. She's not so sure.

"Well, no, sometimes it's really offensive, but it's kind of affectionate now. We're like the 'bonkers couple'." Today, she looks as if she could have walked straight out of a Burton film – black, flowery dress, black skirt, black, flowery, knee-length socks, black boots ripe for giving someone a kicking, and so many chains and lockets and fob watches around her neck, it's amazing she can hold her head up. She is often described as a goth, but she says she isn't sure what that means. "I don't like the music particularly, I've got no goth records. Is it the predominant black? The make-up? And the whiteness? The white thing. Yes... Tim sometimes puts grey make-up on for the press and he doesn't tell me, so afterwards I'm like, 'You're ill!' He goes, nah, it's the grey make-up. Heeheeehee!" She's still musing on their supposed gothness. "He doesn't like the music, either. But we do dress up at Halloween." Do they just stay at home in their make-up, or go out? "No, we go out and play.

I don't know... well, he likes death... It's not that he likes it, but he's considered it in his work." Sip of coffee. Water. Smoothie. She says she's a nightmare for runners on set. "Woody Allen used to poison my drinks." She corrects herself: "He ­pretended to poison them." She orders another double espresso. Bonham Carter defies Hollywood convention in every way – not least her teeth, which are yellow. "I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things – get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened." She has said in the past that she thinks Burton is autistic, but, she says, she's always getting it wrong. She tries to explain what she means. "All the auties love Nightmare Before Christmas ." Again, she apologises, this time for the word ­auties.

"I played Jacqui Jackson, a single mum with children on the autistic spectrum, and I feel partly it's OK to talk like that because I know her, know that world, and she calls them auties." It makes perfect sense what she says about ­Burton – the worlds he creates are so often herme­tically sealed from that of conventional adulthood. "I think he felt very isolated in Burbank where he was born. Edward Scissorhands is a ­version of where he was brought up. It is a bit ­Alice In Wonderland – I don't belong here." People tend to assume the couple's world is equally ­divorced from reality. I say a friend told me to ask if they were the wackiest parents in the playground. She cackles, likes the idea, but says I might be disappointed. "I once went to a ­really brilliant intuitive astrologer – I like all that stuff – and the first thing she said was, by God, he's an efficient man. I thought, how interesting, because that's the last thing people would say about Tim, but he is.

He's someone who's very creative and has a mad ­exterior, but he is funda­mentally very sane and ­practical. I don't think we're crazy at all, to be honest." As for the domestic arrangements, they are just practical. He bought the houses next door because hers was too small for them to live in (the three homes were built as ­cottages for ­artists, each with one main room), and both need their own space. Now, she says, the split is perfect – she has one house, he has ­another and the children have the third to play in with the nanny. As she talks, she's shuffling through the photos on her mobile phone, showing me pictures of the children, her mum and dad, Shelley the tortoise. "That's Bill as a pirate for his pirates party. He's so ­unbelievably patient. Nell's two, she's going to destroy everything. He's­ ­introvert, she's extrovert. He's very tender, she's much more traditionally masculine." Do she and ­Burton see each other much at home? "He always visits, which is really touching.

He's always coming over." Does he have a key to her house? "No, the houses are joined. We have a throughway. Journalists think there's an underground tunnel, gothic. It's ­actually quite above ground, lots of light." Do they sleep together? "Sometimes. There's a snoring issue... I talk, he snores. The other thing is, he's an insomniac, so he needs to watch ­television to get to sleep. I need silence." She thinks she has changed since being with ­Burton. "He's made me more aware. He thinks I overact all the time. He's got a thing about me having a very mobile face. Tim has often said I've got hyperactive eyebrows – he calls them the dancing cater­pillars. He's all for minimal ­expression. He likes to simplify things, I ­complicate them. I think we can do this or this or this, optionitis, then I get frozen because I don't know which one." Has she changed him? "People who know him say I have, and I feel really flattered. Made him talk more. He didn't ­really talk before. He's much shyer than me.

Every ­sentence was ­unfinished. I used to say he was a home for ­abandoned ­sentences. Now he actually finishes them." She sounds so chuffed, as if the thought has struck her for the first time. She is often ­described as Burton's muse, but that makes her uneasy. She says she would not be upset if in future he didn't cast her; there's always going to be a film for which she isn't right. "You can't take it personally." But what if he decided he no longer wanted her in any of his films? "Well, if it's obvious that I'm right for it, I probably will take it personally. I'll let you know when it happens." Could their ­relationship survive that? "It will be interesting. It's not without its pressures, working with Tim. It worked on Alice. Sweeney was very stressful, very hard on our relationship." Is he a boss or partner on set? "No, he's a partner in our private life, but when he's directing, he's the boss.

And maybe I confuse that." The producer of Alice, Richard D Zanuck , said the film was "for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago". This holds true for much of the work Burton and Bonham Carter have done together. And yet, she says, at 43 she feels adult for the first time in her life, and capable of playing almost any role. She's ready for the mothers and the grannies, but that's not all. "I feel more sexy than ever, not because I'm sexually attractive, I just feel I've grown into my body." Did she feel sexy when she was a ­beautiful young thing? "No, absolutely not. ­Totally uncomfortable. It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it. When I was young, I believed in being androgynous, you can't flaunt it, you can't use it. The whole thing was just something yuck, to be ­embarrassed about. And now it's just like, 'Hey, enjoy it!' Now I feel fine about shapes and things. It's nice to have curves. To be a woman." She polishes off the last of her double espresso.

"I suppose I'm just a late developer." • Alice In Wonderland is released on 5 March. Helena Bonham Carter Tim Burton Married - Helena Bonham Carter Net Worth Helena Bonham Carter Tim Burton Married Read more... Helena Bonham Carter Helena Bonham Carter Net Worth is $24 Million. Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television; she has a net worth of $24 million. Helena Bonham Carter has earned her net worth from her film debut in K. M. Peyton's A Patte. Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (b... Helena Bonham Carter Net Worth is $24 Million. Helena Bonham Carter Net Worth is $24 Million. Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television; she has a net worth of $24 million. Helena Bonham Carter has earned her net worth from her film debut in K. M. Peyton's A Patte Helena Bonham Carter, CBE is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M.

Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, and playing the villainess Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, as well as for frequently collaborating with director and domestic partner Tim Burton in films such as Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland and the upcoming Dark Shadows. A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with six Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was appointed Commander of the Or... Helena Bonham Carter - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Producer Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker. Through her father, she is the ... See full bio » Born: Share this page: Related News a list of 22 people created 08 Sep 2011 a list of 43 people created 13 Sep 2011 a list of 42 people created 24 Jun 2013 a list of 23 people created 22 Mar 2014 a list of 49 people created 13 Dec 2014 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Helena Bonham Carter's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 42 wins & 81 nominations.

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Theresa Lyons 2013 The 85th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "One Day More") 2012 Les Misérables (performer: "Beggars At The Feast", "Castle on a Cloud", "Master of the House", "The Robbery/Javert's Intervention", "One Day More!", "The Thénardier Waltz Of Treachery", "The Wedding") 2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (performer: "The Worst Pies In London", "Poor Thing", "My Friends", "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir", "Wait", "Epiphany", "A Little Priest", "God, That's Good!", "By The Sea", "Not While I'm Around", "Toby's Finger (Searching, Part 1)", "Final Scene (Part 1)") 2005 Corpse Bride (performer: "Tears to Shed") Who is Helena Bonham Carter dating? Helena Bonham Carter boyfriend, husband Helena Bonham Carter has been engaged to Tim Burton (2001 - 2014).

She has been in relationships with Steve Martin (2000 - 2001), Rufus Sewell (1999) and Kenneth Branagh (1994 - 1999). About Helena Bonham Carter is a 50 year old British Actress. Born on 26th May, 1966 in Golders Green, London,United Kingdom and educated at Westminster School (London, England) and South Hampstead High School, she is famous for A Room With a View, The Lonely Ranger, Cinderella in a career that spans 1986–present and 1983-present and 1983–present. Her zodiac sign is Gemini. Helena Bonham Carter has been in 14 on-screen matchups, including Aaron Eckhart in Conversations with Other Women (2005), Brad Pitt in Fight Club (1999), Colin Firth in The King's Speech (2010), Edward Norton in Fight Club (1999) and Kenneth Branagh in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).

Helena Bonham Carter Favorite Accessories Mis Matched Clothing Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997). For her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She also won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role as British author Enid Blyton in the TV film Enid (2009). More about Helena Bonham Carter Less about Helena Bonham Carter 1000+ images about Helena Bonham-Carter on Pinterest | Helena bonham carter, Tim burton and Bellatrix lestrange Helena Bonham Carter. Because she is an awesome actress and has this sort of elegance that is just captivating to anyone in her presence. See More

Question: Which English actress, married to Tim Burton starred in A Room With a View and Fight Club?
Answer: HELENA Bonham Carter