Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter movies and is one of the U.K.’s most successful actresses, is taking her attention to parenting classes to help raise her kids.
Bonham Carter and director Tim Burton have a 7-year-old son Billy Raymond, and a daughter Nell, who is nearly 3.
The actress says she is currently not working and is taking parenting classes.
“I need to be a mom,” she said recently in an interview with Eonline. “It’s much harder being a mom than an actress.”
“You know, no one taught me what to do,” she said about being a parent.
Describing the classes as “fun,” she said: “They’re teaching me some really interesting things, like it’s not your job to know everything ... You’ve got to get them to think for themselves.”
“What a relief,” she added in the interview. “I don’t have to know everything.”
And there is every chance she’ll be as good with her parenting skills as she is as an actress.
Bonham Carter, 44, will be honored at the 13th British Independent Film Awards on Dec. 5, the BBC reported. She will receive the Richard Harris Award.
She has also been nominated for supporting actress for The King’s Speech.
In 2008, Bonham Carter was awarded Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for her starring role as Mrs. Lovett alongside Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd.
