theOscarSite Facts:
Birthplace:
  • Golders Green, London, England, UK
Education:
  • Westminster School, London, England
  • She was rejected admission to King's College, Cambridge University - not because of her grades or her test scores, but because school officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue her acting career. Because of Cambridge's rejection, she, ironically, decided to concentrate fully on acting.
Significant Other(s):
  • Tim Burton, director; worked together on PLANET OF THE APES; announced engagement 2001
  • Kenneth Branagh, actor; together since 1994; he was married to Emma Thompson at the time; co-starred in MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) and THEORY OF FLIGHT
Relatives:
  • Father: Raymond Bonham Carter, former merchant banker; was alternate UK director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC for two years in the 1960s; became ill when Bonham Carter was around 10 years old; suffered a stroke while undergoing an operation to remove a benign brain tumor; subsequently confined to a wheelchair
  • Mother: Elena Bonham Carter (née Propper de Callejón); Psychotherapist, Half-Spanish, half-French; reportedly had a nervous breakdown when Bonham Carter was five years old
  • Brothers: Thomas Bonham Carter, Soldier; served in the Irish Guards; older; Edward Bonham Carter, Merchant banker; older
  • Uncle: Mark Bonham Carter, Life Peer
  • Great-Grandfather: H. H. Asquith, British Prime Minister (1908-1916)
  • Son: Billy Ray born 2003 (father: Tim Burton)
Quote:
  • "...I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life." -- Entertainment Weekly, April 3, 1992
Major Film Credits:
  • A ROOM WITH A VIEW, LADY JANE (1986)
    HAMLET (1990)
    HOWARDS END (1992)
    MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994)
    MIGHTY APHRODITE (1995)
    THE WINGS OF THE DOVE (1997)
    FIGHT CLUB (1999)
    NOVOCAINE, FOOTBALL (2001)
    HEART OF ME, TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US (2002)
    BIG FISH (2003)
    CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WOMEN, WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (voice), CORPSE BRIDE (2005)
    SIXTY SIX (2006)
    HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
    HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2008)
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