Does Helena Bonham Carter smoke?: Yes.Does Helena Bonham Carter drink alcohol?: Yes.Helena belongs to a political family. H. H. Asquith was Helenas paternal great-grandfather, who was 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.Helenas grandfather Sir Maurice Bonham Carter was an English Liberal politician, civil servant, and first-class cricketer.Helena is the great-niece of Asquiths son, Anthony Asquith, legendary English director.Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, was a merchant banker and served as the alternative British director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s.Helena is the first cousin of the economist Adam Ridley and politician Jane Bonham Carter.Her maternal grandfather, Eduardo Propper de Callejn was a Spanish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, for which he was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.At the time of her schooling, Helena was denied admission to Kings College, Cambridge, not because of her academic performance, but because college officials were afraid that she would leave during the course to pursue her acting career.When Helena was five, her mother had faced a serious nervous breakdown, from which it took her three years to recuperate.