Helena Bonham Carter – biography
Helena Bonham Carter is a British actress who also appears in Hollywood films. She is also known for her eccentric roles and peculiar taste in fashion. For over a decade she was the muse of her common-law spouse Tim Burton, starring in most of his works. Net worth: $60 million.
Childhood
Helena Bonham Carter was born in London on May 26, 1966. Her father Raymond is an influential capital banker, while her mother Elena is a psychotherapist. Helena has two more siblings - Edward and Thomas. Their ancestors have an impressive history: there were prominent political figures and representatives of the elite in the family. If she only desired, Helena could have stepped into her family’s shoes in any of the fields, yet she chose the arts.

After high school graduation, the future actress went to the University of Cambridge to study drama.

Acting career
After a series of small roles in secondary storylines, Helena became part of the main cast of A Room with a View (1985). Working with Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis gave her confidence in the correctness of her professional choice.


Her immediate nomination for a Golden Globe for Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) only confirmed that conclusion.


Bonham Carter starred in many of her husband’s projects: Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) with Johnny Depp playing the leading role, Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Dark Shadows (2012). She always got the roles of charismatic women, who stood out even against the background of other vivid characters in Burton’s stories.
The last collaboration of Bonham Carter and Burton was accompanied by jokes about their further work together. She said that she felt that the director was already sick of her on the set, while he said he wanted to add new blood to the cast. These words turned out to be more prophetic than the couple’s fans would have liked them to be.


In 2015 there were two very different projects where Helena appeared on the screens - a somewhat grim interpretation of the tale Cinderella (2015), with Cate Blanchett and Lily James, and Suffragette (2015), in which Bonham Carter happily agreed to talk about something very important – women's rights. Her role was first expanded and then reduced again, but this did not affect Helena’s desire to remain part of a solid story.


Another big project where the actress is involved is Ocean’s Eight (2018). Helena appears in the already classic image of quite an eccentric lady. She and the other stars of the cast, including Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett, re-enact an alternative version of the already familiar plot.

Helena Bonham Carter: personal life
Filming Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) brought Helena and Kenneth Branagh together. The couple was together for about five years, but they broke up at the initiative of Bonham Carter. It was rumored that Helena was the cause of the rupture between Bran and Emma Thompson, but all the participants of this involuntary love triangle denied it.
