Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, CBEis an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech. Her other film roles include A Room with a View, Howards End, Fight Club, and playing Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth26 May 1966
CityLondon, England
Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.
I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing.
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.
Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.
My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.
I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.