Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter is a British actress born the May 26th 1966 with London.

Since 2001, it is promised in marriage to Tim Burton, which it met on the turning of the Planet of the monkeys , with which it had a son in 2003. It is currently pregnant of their second child.

In 2006, it is contacted for the role of Mangemort Bellatrix Lestrange for the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix of David Yates.

Small niece of the realizer Anthony Asquith, Helena Bonham Carter passes her childhood to London and attends one of the best schools of the country, Westminster. She is thirteen years old when she decides to use the money gained with a contest of poetry to make appear her photograph in a repertory of actors. She will obtain its first contract later two years: a television commercial in which she praises the merits of a household apparatus. It is Trevor Nunn which offers to him its first role with the cinema in film of time Lady Jane , evocation of the last days of a Lady assembled on the throne of England before she is decapitated.

Its meeting this same year with James Ivory is determining: it offers to him one of the main roles of Chambre with sight in 1986, then finds it the time of an appearance in Maurice and Retour to Howards End in 1992. This collaboration with the scenario writer launches his career. Its pale dye and its heroin victorienne pace enable him to appear in the casting of many films in costume like the Night of the kings , for whom it finds Trevor Nunn, Hamlet or Frankenstein , of Kenneth Branagh.

The actress works with prestigious realizers, commercial of tables at Woody Allen ( Maudite Aphrodite ), young woman reached of a serious disease falling in love in spite of it at Paul Greengrass ( Envole me ), drug addict object of all the phantasms at David Fincher ( Fight Club ). In 1997, criticism greets unanimously its service in the Wings of the dove , of Iain Softley, for which it receives a nomination with the Oscar best supporting role.

In 2001, it incarnates a primate evolved/moved in the Planet of the monkeys , of Tim Burton. It becomes been engaged then and the MUSE of the scenario writer, who makes it play a witch in Big fish , the mother of the hero of Charlie and the chocolate factory or require of him to give voice to late married in cartoon film the funeral Weddings . Strong of this experiment in doubling, it also lends its voice to Lady Tottington in Wallace and Gromit the mystery of the rabbit-garou . Not hesitating to take part in daring projects, it gives the counterpart to Aaron Eckhart in Conversation (S) with a woman , independent film using the principle of the Split screen over all its duration. In 2006, it belongs to the jury of the 59ème Cannes festival, under the presidency of Wong Kar-Wai.

Catalog of films

1983 : has off Pattern Pink , of Lawrence Gordon Clark (TV)
1985: Room with sight ( has Room with has View ), of James Ivory
1986: Lady Jane , of Trevor Nunn
1987: The Vision , of Norman Stone
1987: Maurice , of James Ivory
1987: has Hazard Hearts off, of John Hough (TV)
1988: will maschera It , of Fiorella Infascelli
1989: Getting It Right , of Randal Kleiser
1989: Francesco , of Liliana Cavani
1990: Hamlet , of Free Zeffirelli
1991: Where Angels Fear to Tread , of Charles Sturridge
1992: Return to Howards End ( Howards End ), of James Ivory
1993: Dancing Queen , of Nick Hamm (TV)
1993: Fatal Disappointment: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald , of Robert Dornhelm (TV)
1994: has Dark Adapted Eye , of Tim Fywell (TV)
1994: To ridge , of Alan Cumming (TV)
1994: Frankenstein , of Kenneth Branagh
1995: Cursed Aphrodite ( Mighty Aphrodite ), of Woody Allen
1995: Margaret' S Museum , of Dead Ransen
1996: the Night of the kings ( Twelfth Night: However What You Will ), of Trevor Nunn
1996: Chinese Portraits , of Martine Dugowson
1997: The Petticoat Forwardings , of Pepita Ferrari
1997: Wings of the dove ( The Wings off the Dove ), of Iain Softley
1997: Keep the Aspidistra Flying , of Robert Bierman
1998: Merlin , of Steve Barron (TV)
1998: Love, revenge & treason ( The Revengers' Comedies ), of Malcolm Mowbray
1998: Flies away to me ( The Theory off Flight ), of Paul Greengrass
1999: Fight Club , of David Fincher
1999: Women Talking Dirty , of Coky Giedroyc
2000: Carnivale , of Deane Taylor
2001: Football , of Gaby Dellal (short film)
2001: the Planet of the monkeys ( Planet off the Apes ), of Tim Burton
2001: Novocaine , of David Atkins
2002: The Heart off Me , of Thaddeus O' Sullivan
2002: Till Human Voices Wake Custom , of Michael Petroni
2002: Live From Baghdad , of Mick Jackson (TV)
2003: Henry VIII , of Pete Travis
2003: Big Fish , of Tim Burton
2005: Charlie and the chocolate factory ( Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ), of Tim Burton
2005: Conversations with Other Women, of Hans Canosa

2005: Wallace & Gromit: The Mystery of the rabbit-garou ( Wallace & Gromit: The Curse off the Were-Rabbit ), of Steve Box and Nick Park (voice)

2005: funeral Weddings ( Corpse Bride ), of Tim Burton (voice)

2005: Magnificent 7 , of Kenneth Glenaan (TV)

2006: Sixty Six , of Paul Weiland

2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the phoenix , David Yates

2007: Sweeney Todd of Tim Burton

External bond

Helena Bonham Carter on Internet Movie Database

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