Helena Bonham Carter Biography

Helena Bonham Carter was born in Golders Green in London. Her father was Raymond Bonham Carter who came from a famous British political family; she is the great-granddaughter of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Herbert Henry Asquith and members of her family are Life Peers. Her mother Elena was a psychotherapist. Her maternal grandfather was Eduardo Propper de Callejón a Spanish diplomat and former Minister-Counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C.; her maternal grandmother Helene Fould-Springer (who converted to Catholicism at marriage) was the daughter of a French-Jewish banker Baron Eugene Fould who was a friend of Marcel Proust (he took the surname Fould-Springer upon being made a Baron by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph) and Mary (Mitzi) Springer from an Austrian-based Jewish family who were also the parents of the art patron Baroness Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003) wife of Baron Elie de Rothschild.
Bonham Carter has two brothers Edward and Thomas. Her father who became ill when she was 10 suffered a stroke during an operation to remove a benign brain tumor and was subsequently confined to a wheelchair. Bonham Carter was educated at the South Hampstead High School and Westminster School.

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