Helena Bonham Carter

He has a reputation for being weirder than a green dog. The leftover “grounge” look, when she’s not dressed and made up for the cameras, gives that impression. Like many of the quirky background in modern bohemia, she carries a certain half-price highbrow air about her. But reality does justice to it beyond mere appearances. In it the extremes of her touch, and on the other side of her is a sensitive, cultured and atypically attractive woman. Her sad china doll face has been the quintessential Victorian beauty in films based on the EM Forster stories . Hand in hand with James Ivory , she entered the aristocracy through the front door ( A Room with a View , Return to Howards End ,Maurice ). Perhaps, because such environments are not completely alien to him.

Traces of his great-grandfather remain in his genes: none other than the English Prime Minister Helbert Asquith. From his great-uncle, director Anthony Asquith , he got his artistic streak. He luckily he threw this inheritance over to him; in politics it would surely have been an incorrect example.

Helena Bonham Carter was born on May 26, 1966, in London. From a Spanish mother and the daughter of an English banker graduated from Harvard, she was applying as a brilliant university student when Trevor Nunn convinced her not to take the Oxbridge exam – entrance exam to Oxford and Cambridge – in exchange for starring in Lady Jane .. She, delighted with life. Among other reasons because she was already looking for a representative in the yellow pages since she was thirteen years old. Her film debut as a teenage queen in the English Reformation era was promising and foreboding. The big screen welcomed her with open arms at the age of 17. At the same time, she began an acting career aboard a time machine from which she has rarely been seen leaving. In stories set in the past, she has embroidered the tragic Ophelia from Hamlet , the gothic bride of Frankenstein and an ambitious elitist from the early 20th century in the magnificent The Wings of the Dove.. It moves so well in this territory that it has sometimes manifested, not without a certain tinnitus, to be a genre in itself. “When a new period film is announced and I’m not included, critics write: ‘And the role of Helena Bonham Carter is played by Whore’…”, says the actress with a sneer.

However, when he has taken his feet out of the pot he has not done badly in contemporary plots. In Fight Club he is the third vertex of a disconcerting love triangle where sparks fly from punches, and in Novocaine he surprises with an intelligent comic vision that cannot be lost. He already left stupendous displays of his comedic talent in Mighty Aphrodite . Being directed by Woody Allen was a long-cherished dream, as is following in the footsteps of Nicole Kidman .in a musical in the purest style of golden Hollywood since, he affirms, “I don’t sing well only under the shower”. It could be a new impetus to his career, after working in independent cinema and on TV films, trying out films like the French ( Portraits chinois ) and the Italian ( Francesco , The Mask ), after hiding the mask behind a thick makeup to be the cutest doctor from the futuristic Planet of the Apes . Her passage through this film left something more than the traces of her role; also the blow to the heart of Tim Burton who broke her marriage to be with her, as at the time she did with Kenneth Branagh , when he was happily married toEmma Thompson .

Intimate affairs at sea, Bonham Carter is interested above all for having an estimable filmography of which very few can boast at 35 years of age. We will meet her again in Novocaine , Football and as a ghost in Till Human Voices Wakes Us . Of course, with or without a corset, à la Bonham Carter you always have to see it from your preferred seat.