Helena Bonham Carter - Family and Companions

• great-grandfather Herbert Henry Asquith: was Liberal Party prime minister in England
• great-uncle Anthony Asquith: made such famous and acclaimed English features as "Pygmalion" (1938), "Quiet Wedding" (1940), "The Browning Version" (1950) and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952)
• grandmother Violet Bonham Carter:
• grandfather : maternal grandfather
• father Raymond Bonham Carter: was alternate UK director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC for two years in the 1960s; became ill when Bonham Carter was around 10 years old; suffered a stroke while undergoing an operation to remove a benign brain tumor; subsequently confined to a wheelchair
• mother Elena Bonham Carter: half-Spanish, half-French; reportedly had a nervous breakdown when Bonham Carter was five years old
• brother Thomas Bonham Carter: served in the Irish Guards; older
• brother Edward Bonham Carter: older

• Kenneth Branagh: together from c. 1994 to summer 1999; co-starred together in "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994) and "Theory of Flight" (1998)
• Tim Burton: born in 1958; directed her in "Planet of the Apes" (2001); reportedly began relationship in October 2001