Birthday of Helena Bonham Carter
On May 26, 1966, in London, in the family of Raymond Bonham Carter and his wife Elena, a third child was born - a girl who was named Helena. Raymond Bonham Carter was a banker who over the years held senior positions at the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, the UK Department of Industry and Trade. The mother of the future actress, Elena (nee Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist with Spanish-Czech-Russian-French-Austro-Jewish roots, was the daughter of the Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón and Baroness Helen Fould-Springer.
The origin of the double surname of the actress is interesting. In the 17th century, two daughters of the brewer William Pike, Anne and Susan, were married. Anne married John Bonham, a major landowner in Hampshire, and Susan married John Carter, the son of a shipbuilder and timber merchant. John Carter himself was elected mayor of the city of Portsmouth seven times. The Bonham family had four children, but none of them survived to adulthood. The Carter family also had four children, but of them only one boy, named John. After the death of his parents, as well as aunt Susan and uncle John Bonhams, John became the sole heir to two families, including the significant Bonham land holdings and their surnames. This is how the surname Bonham Carter was formed.
One of the descendants of John Bonham Carter was Maurice Bonham Carter - Raymond's father. And Raymond's mother was Lady Violet Asquith, Baroness Yarnbury, daughter of Herbert Henry Asquith, Earl of Oxford, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1908 to 1916. This is the pedigree of the current hero of the day. It can be assumed that it was precisely such a pedigree that allowed Helena to achieve the desired goals with fewer problems and with less time and effort. It is known that at the age of 13 she made the decision to become an actress. And at the age of 14, she won a competition among young poets and spent the monetary prize that accompanied this victory to have her name included in the register of actors. Although, it is clear that she did not have any acting education by this time. However, she did not receive this education even later.
The status of an actress allowed her to appear in commercials, and the fame in television circles, acquired through advertising, led to the fact that at the age of 16 she played her first role in the television movie "The Pattern of Roses". The role in this film, although small, turned out to be quite successful. Helena satisfied her desire to become an actress and was getting ready to go to university, but then she received two offers of the main roles at once: in the film "Lady Jane" from director Trevor Nunn and in the film "Room with a View" from director James Ivory. What a study here! The premiere of the film "Room with a View" (1985) took place 2 months earlier than the premiere of "Lady Jane" (1986). Therefore, we will consider the role in the film by James Ivory as the first role of Helena Bonham Carter in a full-length feature film.
For her 57th birthday, Helena Bonham Carter has 49 feature film roles in her filmography. And that's not counting the many roles in television, video and short films. 5 of these 48 films entered the Golden Thousand including "The King's Speech" and "Les Misérables" by Tom Hooper, "Fight Club" by David Fincher, "Big Fish" by Tim Burton, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by David Yates.Thanks to this indicator and thanks to her special, one might say, infernal, beauty, Helena Bonham Carter is included in the list of the 100 most beautiful and sexy Actresses in world cinema, compiled by FilmGourmand. As for the infernal beauty of Helena Bonham Carter, the Encyclopedia Britannica agrees with our assessment, defining it as "actress whose dark aesthetic brought flair to roles ranging from period pieces to modern fantasy."
On the birthday of the Actress, we want to remind her fans of shots from the best films with her participation.
