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Helena Bonham Carter was born in London on May 26, 1966, to a banker father and a psychotherapist mother. Her young life was rough: When she was five, her mother suffered a nervous breakdown (later to recover), and when she was around 13, her father became paralyzed after complications arose during brain surgery. While her father was still in the hospital, she won a poetry contest and used the money to get her picture in a casting catalog. Not long after, she hired an agent who helped her get her marvelous career underway.
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Bonham Carter has two brothers, Edward and Thomas, and is a cousin of actor Crispin Bonham-Carter. When she was five, her mother suffered a nervous breakdown and became bedridden for a year.[10] When she was 10, her father became ill and later suffered a stroke during an operation to remove a benign brain tumour, and was subsequently confined to a wheelchair.[10] Bonham Carter was educated at the South Hampstead High School, a girls' independent school in Hampstead, London and later at Westminster School, a co-educational independent school near the Palace of Westminster. She is a first cousin thrice removed of Florence Nightingale.[11]
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Bonham Carter was born in Golders Green, London, England. Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, was a merchant banker and the alternate UK director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s. Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), was a psychotherapist.[1][2][3] Bonham Carter's father came from a famous British political family, being the son of Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury the daughter of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, H. H. Asquith, and Maurice Bonham Carter.
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Born and raised in London, Bonham Carter was educated at one of that city's foremost schools, Westminster. Befitting her double-barreled family name, Bonham Carter is a descendant of the British aristocracy -- both social and cinematic -- the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Lord Herbert Asquith and the grandniece of director Anthony Asquith.
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