Helena Bonham Carter Height, Weight, Age, Boyfriends, Family, Biography, Facts & More

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Helena Bonham Carter
Nickname	Helena
Profession	Actress
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 157 cm in meters- 1.57 m in feet inches- 5’ 2”
Weight (approx.)	in kilograms- 55 kg in pounds- 121 lbs
Figure Measurements (approx.)	35-26-34
Eye Colour	Dark Brown
Hair Colour	Dark Brown (Dyed Blonde)
Personal Life
Date of Birth	26 May 1966
Age (as in 2018)	52 Years
Birthplace	Islington, London, England
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Gemini
Nationality	British
Hometown	London
Schools	South Hampstead High School, London Westminster School, London
College/University	Not Known
Educational Qualification	Not Known
Debut	Film: A Pattern of Roses (1983) TV: Miami Vice (1987)
Religion	Not Known
Food Habit	Non-Vegetarian
Political Inclination	Conservative
Address (FanMail)	Conway Van Gelder Grant Ltd. 8-12 Broadwick Street 3rd Floor London W1F 8HW UK
Hobbies	Rafting, Reading Books, Traveling, Listening to Music
Awards, Honours, Achievements	Academy Award Nominated Best Actress for 'The Wings of the Dove' Nominated Best Supporting Actress for 'The King's Speech' Golden Globe Award Nominated Best Actress for 'The Wings of the Dove' Nominated Best Actress for 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' BAFTA Award Won Best Actress Award for 'The King's Speech' Nominated Best Supporting Actress for 'Howards End'
Boys, Affairs and More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Affairs/Boyfriends	Kenneth Branagh (1994-1999) Rufus Sewell (1999) Steve Martin (2000-2001) Tim Burton (2001-2014)
Family
Husband/Spouse	N/A
Children	Son- 1 Daughter- 1
Parents	Father- Raymond Bonham Carter (Former Director of Bank of England at IMF) Mother- Elena Propper de Callejón (Psychotherapist)
Siblings	Brothers- Edward and Thomas Sister- None
Favourite Things
Favourite Food	Italian Cuisine
Favourite Fashion Designing Company	Marithé et François Girbaud
Favourite Destination	Florence (Italy)
Style Quotient
Cars Collection	Lincoln Navigator, BMW X1, Range Rover Vogue, Audi RS6, Mini Countryman
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$30 million

Some Lesser Known Facts About
Helena Bonham Carter

• Does Helena Bonham Carter smoke?: Yes

• Does Helena Bonham Carter drink alcohol?: Yes

• Helena belongs to a political family. H. H. Asquith was Helena’s paternal great-grandfather, who was 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

• Helena’s grandfather Sir Maurice Bonham Carter was an English Liberal politician, civil servant, and first-class cricketer.

• Helena is the great-niece of Asquith’s son, Anthony Asquith, legendary English director.

• Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, was a merchant banker and served as the alternative British director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s.

• Helena is the first cousin of the economist Adam Ridley and politician Jane Bonham Carter.

• Her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejón was a Spanish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the  Holocaust during World War II, for which he was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.

• At the time of her schooling, Helena was denied admission to King’s College, Cambridge, not because of her academic performance, but because college officials were afraid that she would leave during the course to pursue her acting career.

• When Helena was five, her mother had faced a serious nervous breakdown, from which it took her three years to recuperate.

• Five years after her mother’s recovery, Helena’s father was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. He bore complications undergoing an operation to remove a tumour, which resulted in a stroke that left him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair.

• During the filming of ‘Planet of the Apes,’ Helena was romantically hooked up with director Tim Burton, who bought two next door houses to her Hampstead house in London. The two reportedly shared the next door house until their separation in 2014.

• In August 2008, four of her relatives died in a safari bus crash in South Africa, and she was given indefinite leave from filming ‘Terminator Salvation’, returning later to complete filming.

• In early October 2008, Helena reportedly became a patron of the ‘Action Duchenne’, the national charitable foundation established to support parents and sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

• In 2009, TIME magazine listed Helena among the “Top 10 British Actresses of All-Time“.

• For her services to drama, Helena was bestowed upon ‘Commander of the Order of the British Empire‘ (CBE) in the 2012 Queen’s New Years Honours List.

• Helena is famous for her unconventional and eccentric sense of fashion. In spite of her often controversial fashion choices, Vanity Fair named her on its 2010 Best-Dressed List.

• Helena is the first female actress to have appeared in two films that grossed over $1 billion; 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland,” and 2011’s “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2.”