Helena Bonham Carter Net Worth

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Net Worth of Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress who has a net worth of $60 million dollars. Bonham Carter made her big screen debut in 1985’s “A Room with a View,” though 1986’s “Lady Jane” was actually filmed earlier. Helena has gone on to appear in more than 100 film and television projects, and she is well-known for starring in the films of Tim Burton (who she was in a relationship with for over a decade), including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005), “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (2007), and “Alice in Wonderland” (2010).

Career

In 1983, Helena had a small role in the television film “A Pattern of Roses.” She then filmed the movies “Lady Jane” and “A Room with a View,” playing the lead role in both, and in 1987, she guest-starred on two episodes of “Miami Vice” and appeared in the films “Maurice” and “A Hazard of Hearts.” Bonham Carter played Ophelia in 1990’s “Hamlet and Julia in 1996’s “Twelfth Night,” and 1997’s “The Wings of the Dove” earned her critical acclaim and numerous awards. She then appeared in several high-grossing films, including 1999’s “Fight Club” ($101.2 million), 2001’s “Planet of the Apes” ($362.2 million), and 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” ($475 million). Helena voiced the title character in 2005’s “Corpse Bride” and sold the “worst pies in London” as Mrs. Lovett in the 2007 musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” She played Bellatrix Lestrange in the last four films of the “Harry Potter” series, which all grossed more than $900 million; 2011’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” is one of the most commercially successful films in history with a worldwide gross of $1.342 billion.

Personal Life

In 1994, Helena began an affair with “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” director Kenneth Branagh, who was married to actress Emma Thompson at the time. Kenneth and Emma divorced the following year, and Bonham Carter and Branagh split up in 1999. In 2001, Helena met director Tim Burton while filming “Planet of the Apes,” and they were in a relationship until 2014. They welcomed son Billy on October 4, 2003, and daughter Nell on December 15, 2007. In 2018, Bonham Carter began dating author Rye Dag Holmboe. In August 2008, four of Helena’s relatives died in a safari bus crash while visiting South Africa; Bonham Carter was filming “Terminator Salvation” in New Mexico when the tragedy occurred and was given indefinite leave so she could fly to London to be with her family. Helena became a patron of the Action Duchenne charity in October 2008, and she was appointed to Britain’s Holocaust Commission in early 2014.

Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

How is it that Helena Bonham Carter has a net worth of $60 Million? These quotes by the actor may indicate the character traits that led to her financial situation:

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

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It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

Helena Bonham Carter

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

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Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

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