Helena Bonham Carter
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Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Known for her roles in blockbusters and independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received various awards and nominations, including a British Academy Film Award and an International Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards.
Bonham Carter rose to prominence by playing Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the title character in Lady Jane (1986). Her early period roles saw her typecast as a virginal "English rose", a label with which she was uncomfortable.<ref name="Wilted rose"/> She is best known for her eccentric fashion and dark aesthetic and for often playing quirky women.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her other films include Hamlet (1990), Howards End (1992), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Fight Club (1999), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), the Harry Potter series (2007–2011), Great Expectations (2012) as Miss Havisham, Les Misérables (2012), Cinderella (2015), Ocean's 8 (2018), and Enola Holmes (2020). Her collaborations with director Tim Burton include Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows (2012).
For her role as children's author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four biographical film Enid (2009), she won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her other television films include Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993), Live from Baghdad (2002), Toast (2010), and Burton & Taylor (2013). From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed Princess Margaret in seasons three and four of Netflix's The Crown earning two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Early life and educationEdit
Bonham Carter was born in Islington, London.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, who came from a prominent British political family, was a merchant banker and served as the alternative British director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, during the 1960s.<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist who is of Spanish and mostly Bohemian and French-Jewish background, and whose parents were diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón from Spain and painter Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer.<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref name="JJ"/> Bonham Carter's paternal grandmother was politician and feminist Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the first half of the First World War.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter has two older brothers; Edward and Thomas. They were brought up in Golders Green, and she was educated at South Hampstead High School, and completed her A-levels at Westminster School.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bonham Carter applied to King's College, Cambridge, but was rejected "because officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue an acting career."<ref name="scotsman1">Template:Cite news</ref>
When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a serious nervous breakdown, from which she needed three years to recover. Soon afterwards, her mother's experience in therapy led her to become a psychotherapist herself. Bonham Carter has since paid her to read her scripts and deliver opinions on the characters' psychological motivations.<ref name="globemail1">Liam Lacey, "'English rose' blossoms into other roles", 18 January 1996, The Globe and Mail, D1</ref> Five years after her mother's recovery, her father was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. He suffered complications during an operation to remove the tumour, which led to a stroke, leaving him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair.<ref name="times1">Valerie Grove, "How Helena Grew Up in a Violet Shadow", The Times, 10 May 1996</ref> With her brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help her mother cope. She later studied her father's movements and mannerisms for her role in The Theory of Flight.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He died in January 2004.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
AncestryEdit
PaternalEdit
Template:See also Bonham Carter's paternal grandparents were British Liberal politicians Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter and Lady Violet Bonham Carter. Sir Maurice was descended̄ from John Bonham Carter, Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. Violet was a daughter of H. H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith and Prime Minister of Britain 1908–1916. Violet's brother was Anthony Asquith, English director of such films as Carrington V.C. and The Importance of Being Earnest Helena is also a first cousin of the economist Adam Ridley<ref>L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), p. 16</ref> and of politician Jane Bonham Carter.
Bonham Carter is a distant cousin of actor Crispin Bonham-Carter. Her other prominent distant relatives include Lothian Bonham Carter, who played first-class cricket for Hampshire, his son, Vice Admiral Sir Stuart Bonham Carter, who served in the Royal Navy in both world wars, and pioneering English nurse Florence Nightingale.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
MaternalEdit
Template:See also Her maternal grandfather, Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during the Second World War, for which he was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations,<ref name=YadVashem>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and posthumously received the Courage to Care Award from the Anti-Defamation League.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His own father was a Bohemian Jew, and his wife, Helena's grandmother, was a Jewish convert to Catholicism.<ref name="Pfefferman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=YadVashem /> He later served as Minister-Counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Her maternal grandmother, Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer, was from an upper-class Jewish family; she was the daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer (a French banker descended from the Ephrussi family and the Fould dynasty) and Marie-Cécile von Springer (whose father was Austrian-born industrialist Baron Gustav von Springer, and whose mother was from the de Koenigswarter family).<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref name="08ref1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Hélène Fould-Springer converted to Catholicism after the Second World War.<ref name="Pfefferman"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Hélène's sister was the French philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003), the wife of Baron Élie de Rothschild, of the prominent Rothschild family (who had also married within the von Springer family in the 19th century);<ref>Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3415. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.</ref> Liliane's other sister, Therese Fould-Springer, was the mother of British writer David Pryce-Jones.<ref name="08ref1" />
CareerEdit
Early work and breakthrough (1980s–1990s)Edit
Bonham Carter, who has had no formal acting training,<ref name="telegraph">Template:Cite news</ref> entered the field winning a national writing contest in 1979, and used the money to pay for her entry into the actors' Spotlight directory. She made her professional acting debut at the age of 16 in a television commercial. She also had a minor part in the 1983 TV film A Pattern of Roses.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter's first lead film role was as Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1986), which was given mixed reviews by critics. Her breakthrough role was as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985), an adaptation of E. M. Forster's 1908 novel, which was filmed after Lady Jane, but released two months earlier. She also appeared in episodes of Miami Vice as Don Johnson's love interest during the 1986–87 season, and then in 1987 with Dirk Bogarde in The Vision, Stewart Granger in A Hazard of Hearts, and John Gielgud in Getting It Right. Bonham Carter was originally cast for the role of Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves, but backed out during production owing to "the character's painful psychic and physical exposure", according to Roger Ebert.<ref name="ebert1">Roger Ebert, "British Film Likely to Win The Top Award at Cannes", Chicago Sun-Times, 20 May 1996, p. 40</ref> The role went to Emily Watson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Her early films led to her being typecast as a "corset queen" and "English rose", playing pre- and early 20th century characters, particularly in Merchant Ivory films.<ref name="Wilted rose">Template:Cite news</ref> Uncomfortable with this image, she states: "I looked, as someone said, like a bloated chipmunk".<ref name="Wilted rose"/> In 1994, Bonham Carter appeared in a dream sequence during the second series of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, as Edina Monsoon's daughter Saffron, who was normally played by Julia Sawalha. Throughout the series, references were made to Saffron's resemblance to Bonham Carter.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter, who speaks French fluently, starred in a 1996 French film titled Portraits chinois. That same year, she played Olivia in Trevor Nunn's film version of Twelfth Night. One of the high points of her early career was her performance as the scheming Kate Croy in the 1997 film adaption of The Wings of the Dove, which was highly acclaimed internationally and saw her receive her first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Then followed Fight Club in 1999, in which she played Marla Singer, a role for which she won the 2000 Empire Award for Best British Actress.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Worldwide recognition and blockbuster films (2000s–2020s)Edit
In August 2001, she was featured in Maxim. She played her second Queen of England when she was cast as Anne Boleyn in the ITV1 miniseries Henry VIII; however, her role was restricted, as she was pregnant with her first child at the time of filming.<ref name="express1">"Day & Night," Kathryn Spencer, Julie Carpenter and Kate Bohdanowicz, 24 September 2003, The Express, p 36</ref> In 2005, she voiced Lady Tottingham, a wealthy aristocratic spinster in the 2005 stop-motion animated comedy Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Starring alongside Ralph Fiennes and Peter Sallis, the film serves as part of the Wallace & Gromit series.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
She was a member of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival jury that unanimously selected The Wind That Shakes the Barley as best film.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In May 2006, Bonham Carter launched her own fashion line, "The Pantaloonies", with swimwear designer Samantha Sage. Their first collection, called Bloomin' Bloomers, is a Victorian style selection of camisoles, mob caps, and bloomers. The duo worked on Pantaloonies customised jeans, which Bonham Carter describes as "a kind of scrapbook on the bum".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter played the evil witch Bellatrix Lestrange in the final four Harry Potter films (2007–2011). While filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, she accidentally perforated the eardrum of Matthew Lewis (playing Neville Longbottom) when she stuck her wand into his ear canal.<ref name="daly">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Bonham Carter received positive reviews as Bellatrix, described as a "shining but underused talent".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="daly" /> She played Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd's (Johnny Depp) amorous accomplice, in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Burton.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her performance. She won the Best Actress award in the 2007 Evening Standard British Film Awards for her performances in Sweeney Todd and Conversations With Other Women, along with another Best Actress award at the 2009 Empire Awards. Bonham Carter also appeared in the fourth Terminator film, entitled Terminator Salvation, playing a small but pivotal role as a personification of Skynet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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In 2009, Bonham Carter was the mother squirrel narrator in the 30-minute animated film adaptation of the best-selling children's book The Gruffalo, which was broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bonham Carter joined the cast of Tim Burton's 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland, as the Red Queen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She appears alongside Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Crispin Glover, and Harry Potter co-star Alan Rickman. Her role was an amalgamation of the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In early 2009, Bonham Carter was named one of The TimesTemplate:'s top-10 British Actresses of all time, along with fellow actresses Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Julie Andrews, and Audrey Hepburn.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2010, Bonham Carter played Queen Elizabeth in the film The King's Speech. Template:As of, she had received numerous plaudits and praise for her performance, including nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<ref name=KingsSpeech>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> She won her first BAFTA Award, but lost the Academy Award to Melissa Leo for The Fighter.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter signed to play author Enid Blyton in the BBC Four television biopic, Enid. It was the first depiction of Blyton's life on the screen; she starred with Matthew Macfadyen and Denis Lawson.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> She received her first Television BAFTA Nomination for Best Actress, for Enid. In 2010, she starred with Freddie Highmore in the Nigel Slater biopic Toast, which was filmed in the West Midlands<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and received a gala at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She received the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year from BAFTA LA in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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In 2012, she appeared as the eccentric, jilted bride Miss Havisham—one of the most potent figures in Victorian gothic fiction—in Mike Newell's adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In April 2012, she appeared in Rufus Wainwright's music video for his single "Out of the Game", featured on the album of the same name.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She co-starred in a film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables, released in 2012. She played the role of Madame Thénardier.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 17 May 2012, Bonham Carter was announced to be appearing in the 2013 adaptation (entitled The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet) of Reif Larsen's book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her casting was announced alongside that of Kathy Bates, Kyle Catlett and Callum Keith Rennie, with Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She also appeared in a short film directed by Roman Polanski for the clothing brand Prada. The short was entitled A Therapy and she appeared as a patient of Ben Kingsley's therapist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2013, she played Red Harrington, a peg-legged brothel madam, who assists Reid and Tonto in locating Cavendish, in the movie The Lone Ranger. Also that year, Bonham Carter narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an interactive anthology of love literature developed by Allie Byrne Esiri.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Also in 2013, Bonham Carter appeared as Elizabeth Taylor, alongside Dominic West as Richard Burton, in BBC4's Burton & Taylor, which premiered at the 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She played the Fairy Godmother in the 2015 live-action re-imagining of Walt Disney's Cinderella.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In 2016, Bonham Carter reprised her role of the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass. In June 2018, she starred in a spin-off of the Ocean's Eleven trilogy, titled Ocean's 8, alongside Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, and Sarah Paulson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She plays an older Princess Margaret—whom Bonham Carter knew in person through her uncle Mark<ref name="murison20191102">Template:Cite news</ref>—for the Netflix series The Crown, replacing Vanessa Kirby, who played a younger version for the first two seasons. Her performance earned her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. She was also a part of the ensemble cast that won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2019 and 2020. In 2020, Bonham Carter starred as Eudoria Holmes in the Netflix film Enola Holmes, which is based on the Sherlock Holmes adaptation, The Enola Holmes Mysteries.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
In August 2008, four of Bonham Carter's relatives were killed in a safari bus crash in South Africa,<ref name="relative">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> and she was given indefinite leave from filming Terminator Salvation, returning later to complete filming.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In early October 2008, Bonham Carter became the first patron of the charity Action Duchenne, the national charity established to support parents and sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.<ref>"Action Duchenne patron honoured with CBE" Template:Webarchive. Action Duchenne. Retrieved 7 May 2012</ref>
In August 2014, Bonham Carter was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2016, Bonham Carter said she was keen on the UK remaining in the European Union in regard to the referendum on that issue.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2022 Bonham Carter was appointed to the honorary position of the London Library’s president, making her their first female president. She has been a member of the London Library since 1986.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
RelationshipsEdit
In 1994, Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh met while filming Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. They began an affair while Branagh was still married to Emma Thompson.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> At the time, Thompson's career was soaring, while Branagh was struggling to make a success of his first big-budget film.<ref name=":0" /> Following the affair, Branagh and Thompson divorced in 1995.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1999, after five years together, Bonham Carter and Branagh separated.<ref name="forgave">Template:Cite news</ref>
Thompson has said she has "no hard feelings" towards Bonham Carter, calling her affair with Branagh "blood under the bridge".<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> She explained: "You can't hold on to anything like that. It's pointless. I haven't got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago. She's a wonderful woman."<ref name=":1" /> Thompson, Branagh, and Bonham Carter all later went on to appear in the Harry Potter series (none of them shared any scenes); Thompson and Bonham Carter both appeared in Order of the Phoenix.
In 2001, Bonham Carter began a relationship with American director Tim Burton, whom she met while filming Planet of the Apes. Burton cast her in a number of his other films, including Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. After their separation, Bonham Carter said, "It might be easier to work together without being together anymore. He always only cast me with great embarrassment."<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter and Burton lived in adjoining houses in Belsize Park, London. She owned one of the houses; Burton later bought the other, and they connected the two. In 2006, they bought the Mill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire.<ref name="Mill House"/> It was previously leased by her grandmother, Violet Bonham Carter, and owned by her great-grandfather H. H. Asquith.<ref name="Mill House">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bonham Carter and Burton have a son and daughter together.<ref>"Helena Bonham Carter- Biography". Yahoo.com. Retrieved 7 May 2012. Template:Webarchive</ref><ref name="nell">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="JJ">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She told The Daily Telegraph of her struggles with infertility and the difficulties she had during her pregnancies. She said that before the conception of her daughter, she and Burton had been trying for a baby for two years and, although they conceived naturally, they were considering in vitro fertilisation.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
On 23 December 2014, the two announced that they had "separated amicably" earlier that year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Of the separation, Bonham Carter told Harper's Bazaar: "Everyone always says you have to be strong and have a stiff upper lip, but it's okay to be fragile. ...You've got to take very small steps, and sometimes you won't know where to go next because you've lost yourself." She added: "With divorce, you go through massive grief—it is a death of a relationship, so it's utterly bewildering. Your identity, everything, changes."<ref name=":2" />
Since 2018, Bonham Carter has been in a relationship with art historian Rye Dag Holmboe.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Holmboe is 21 years her junior. Regarding their age gap, Bonham Carter told The Times in 2019: "Everybody ages at a different rate. My boyfriend is unbelievably mature. He's an old soul in a young body, what more could I want? People are slightly frightened of older women, but he isn't. Women can be very powerful when they're older."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Public imageEdit
Bonham Carter is known for her unconventional and eccentric sense of fashion.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> British Vogue described her dark style in clothing and acting as "quirky and irreverent".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Vanity Fair named her on its 2010 Best-Dressed List<ref name=vanity/> and she was selected by Marc Jacobs to be the face of his Autumn/Winter 2011 advertising campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has cited Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette as her main style influences.<ref name=vanity>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In May 2021, Bonham Carter featured in a commercial for British furniture retailer Sofology, taking viewers through the quirks and stylistic flourishes of her home.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2021, she wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar on the influence of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on her life since she first read the book as a child: "As far back as I can remember, I’ve been a wannabe Alice", adding, "everywhere I look at home, every view has some reference to Alice: frog footman candlesticks, teacup constructions, a teapot lamp, a chessboard teapot, an oversized pocket watch, undersized doors, bunnies, internal windows that look like mirrors, and mirrors that look like windows".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Acting creditsEdit
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Accolades and honoursEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Bonham Carter has been the recipient of a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, an International Emmy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as receiving further nominations for two Academy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. She has received other prestigious awards such as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and two National Board of Review awards.<ref name="KingsSpeech"/>
Bonham Carter was made a CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours list for services to drama,<ref name="CBE">Template:Cite news</ref> and Prime Minister David Cameron announced that she had been appointed to Britain's new national Holocaust Commission in January 2014.<ref name="Dysch">Template:Cite news</ref>
See alsoEdit
- List of British actors
- List of British Academy Award nominees and winners
- List of Jewish Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of actors with Academy Award nominations
- List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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