Editing Helena Bonham Carter (section)

==Early life and education==
Bonham Carter was born in [[Islington]], [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVWQ-NZVB|title=Helena Bonham Carter|work=familysearch.org|access-date=3 October 2015|archive-date=5 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005084829/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVWQ-NZVB|url-status=live}}</ref> Her father, [[Raymond Bonham Carter]], who came from a prominent [[Bonham Carter family|British political family]], was a [[merchant bank]]er and served as the alternative British director representing the [[Bank of England]] at the [[International Monetary Fund]] in Washington, DC, during the 1960s.<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Helena Bonham Carter|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio|access-date=13 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628201600/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio|archive-date=28 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist who is of Spanish and mostly [[History of the Jews in the Czech lands|Bohemian]] and [[History of the Jews in France|French]]-[[Jewish]] background, and whose parents were diplomat [[Eduardo Propper de Callejón]] from Spain and painter [[Fould family|Baroness Hélène Fould-Springer]].<ref name="Costa2006-11-03" /><ref name="JJ"/> Bonham Carter's paternal grandmother was politician and feminist [[Violet Bonham Carter]], daughter of [[H. H. Asquith]], the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] during the first half of the [[First World War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Revealed: Helena Bonham Carter's lovestruck ancestor begged Winston Churchill to call off his wedding |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/revealed-helena-bonham-carters-lovestruck-1797085 |access-date=30 June 2019 |work=Daily Record |archive-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115213513/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/revealed-helena-bonham-carters-lovestruck-1797085 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Bonham Carter has two older brothers; [[Edward Bonham Carter|Edward]] and Thomas. They were brought up in [[Golders Green]], and she was educated at [[South Hampstead High School]], and completed her [[A-level]]s at [[Westminster School]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio |title=Helena Bonham Carter Biography – Yahoo! Movies |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=15 April 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628201600/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio |archive-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref> Bonham Carter applied to [[King's College, Cambridge]], but was rejected "because officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue an acting career."<ref name="scotsman1">{{cite news| url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/scruffs-up-nicely-1-728157| title=Scruffs up nicely| newspaper=The Scotsman| date=20 July 2005| access-date=21 March 2015| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144226/http://www.scotsman.com/news/scruffs-up-nicely-1-728157| archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a serious [[nervous breakdown]], from which she needed three years to recover. Soon afterwards, her mother's experience in therapy led her to become a psychotherapist herself. Bonham Carter has since paid her to read her scripts and deliver opinions on the characters' psychological motivations.<ref name="globemail1">Liam Lacey, "'English rose' blossoms into other roles", 18 January 1996, ''The Globe and Mail'', D1</ref> Five years after her mother's recovery, her father was diagnosed with [[acoustic neuroma]]. He suffered complications during an operation to remove the tumour, which led to a stroke, leaving him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair.<ref name="times1">Valerie Grove, "How Helena Grew Up in a Violet Shadow", ''The Times'', 10 May 1996</ref> With her brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help her mother cope. She later studied her father's movements and mannerisms for her role in ''[[The Theory of Flight]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Helena Bonham Carter Biography |publisher=Tiscali |url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/helena_bonham_carter_biog.html |access-date=7 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126045307/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/helena_bonham_carter_biog.html |archive-date=26 January 2009 }}</ref> He died in January 2004.<ref>{{cite news |title=Raymond Bonham Carter |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1452428/Raymond-Bonham-Carter.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1452428/Raymond-Bonham-Carter.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=30 June 2019 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>