Helena Bonham Carter is one of the most talentedfamous actresses. How celebrated? One might ask… Her most notable honor came in 2012, when she was named to the New Year’s Honors List for services to the theatre, making her the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (EPC). Additionally, Carter has won a handful of coveted awards, including a BAFTA award.
Helena Bonham Carter’s Bio
If she were to follow in her footsteps, Helena Bonham Carter, ancestor, born May 26, 1966 in Islington, London, could have become a political figure. His own father, Raymond Bonham Carter (1929 – 2004) was a British banker, member of a British political family and who worked at the Bank of England. Her paternal grandmother, Violet Asquith, was also a feminist icon. Asquith was the daughter of HH Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the first half of the First World War.
Although born in Islington, Helena and her two older brothers Edward and Thomas were brought up in Golders Green. She attended South Hampstead and Westminster secondary schools, where she obtained her baccalaureate. Helena wanted to attend Kings College, Cambridge, but the school authorities feared that she would drop out to pursue her passion in acting which she had pursued since primary school.
With money earned from a 1979 national write Helena who had no formal paid acting training to become a member of the Spotlight Directory. Her first professional acting job came in a TV commercial in 1982 when she was just 16, and the rest is history.
Net value
Helena Bonham Carter got her big break in 1985, two years into her professional career. His success came with the role of Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View and the British beau hasn’t looked back since. Over the years, Helena has once again proven herself to be an amazing actress. Her talent helped boost the commercial success of several films from Fight Club to the Harry Potter series where she played Bellatrix Lestrange. His net worth is estimated to be between $30-40 million.
Who is the husband?
While Helena Bonham Carter is at the time of this writing a single woman, she has had two high-profile, long-term relationships in the past. But even though she stayed with these men for a long time, she never walked down the aisle with them, so Helena Bonham Carter was never officially married to anyone.
Her first high profile boyfriend/partner was British actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh (pictured above). Helena accompanied him for five years, from 1994 to 1999. Their love attracted a lot of media attention because it resulted from an extramarital affair on Branagh’s part. When they started dating, Branagh was married to British actress Emma Thompson. Thompson and Branagh met while filming BBC Series, Fortunes of War, after which they tied the knot in 1989.
Five years later, in 1994, Branagh met Carter on the set of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and they started an affair together. A year into their romantic relationship, Branagh decided to quit the job with his wife and continued his romantic relationship with Carter. However, it was not expected to last a lifetime as they broke up in 1999.
Emma Thompson who married Greg Wise in 2003 forgave Carter for the extramarital affair she had with her then husband. The two even starred together in the Harry Potter series. In contrast, Branagh seemed to have finally found what he was looking for in director Lindsay Brunnock, art director, whom he married in 2003.
After two years of healing from her relationship with Branagh, Helena found love in the arms of ace American filmmaker Tim Burton. Like her previous relationship, it started on a movie set. Burton had cast her in his 2001 science fiction film Planet of the Apes. He would cast her in at least 6 of his films, including Alice in Wonderland
Having lived in neighboring houses in Belsize Park, London, they connected the two to form a home. Helena and Burton would be together for 13 years but were never married. Their relationship ended amicably in early 2013. Their long-term relationship has produced two children. a son named Billy Raymond Burton, born in October 2003 and a daughter Nell Burton, born in December 2007.