Is Helena Bonham Carter related to Kate Middleton?

Helena Bonham Carter is related to Kate Middleton. The Duchess of Cambridge and the actress share a great-great-great grandfather making them distant cousins.

Helena Bonham Carter CBE was born on May 26, 1966, in Golders Green, London, United Kingdom. Helena Bonham Carter was born to Raymond Bonham Carter and Elena Propper de Callejón.

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress best known for her excellent performance in her roles in blockbusters and period dramas. For her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997), Helena Bonham Carter received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Helena Bonham Carter got her breakthrough role as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985), an adaptation of E. M. Forster’s 1908 novel. She got further recognition for portraying the title character in Lady Jane (1986).

Helena Bonham Carter was made a CBE in the 2012 New Year Honors list for services to drama.

Prime Minister David Cameron declared that Helena Bonham Carter had been appointed to Britain’s new national Holocaust Commission in January 2014.