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[h3]Beautiful and dark-haired Claire Bloom is a refined English actress with a classical Shakespearean training. [/h3]

Never a top star in the commercial sense, Bloom excelled in a series of performances in film, on the radio and on the stage over nearly 60 years.

Born into second generation Jewish immigrant family, with grandparents from Latvia and Germany, Bloom lived an itinerant life with her family before WW2 as her father looked for work.

As a child Bloom loved the classics of English literature and, on seeing the 1936 film of 'Romeo and Juliet', Bloom started to act.

During the war, Bloom lived with an uncle in America and at twelve started to audition for parts on stage and radio. At war’s end Bloom trained at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London. She was spotted by a theatre agent at 15 and left school to take the role of a prositute in 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater', and to work at the BBC.

Bloom was single minded in her work and had no time for parties or men. A year later she was cast as Ophelia in 'Hamlet' at Stratford. More Shakespearean roles followed.

Charlie Chaplin noticed Bloom in a magazine article and wanted her as a leading lady for his ballet film, 'Limelight'. The film was not a success, but it put Bloom’s face on the cover of Time and then Life magazines. Suddenly she was famous and remains so till today.

Bloom married three times; to Rod Steiger, with whom she had her only daughter Anna, to Hilllard Elkins and novelist Philip Roth.

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- While working at Stratford as a teenager she walked home many miles down long country roads, and she related one incident when she walked along a hedge and saw a shadowy figure on the other side of the hedge trailing her. She feared being attacked, and finally turned around to face the potential attacker, which turned out to be a cow.


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Imagining Argentina (2003) .... Mrs. Sternberg

Republic of Love, The (2003) .... Onion

Book of Eve, The (2002) .... Eva Smallwood

Yesterday's Children (2000) (TV) .... Margaret

Love and Murder (2000) (TV) .... Nina Love

Lady in Question, The (1999) (TV) .... Emma Sachs

Imogen's Face (1998) (TV) .... Elinor

Irish in America: Long Journey Home, The (1998) (mini) TV Series (voice)

Wrestling with Alligators (1998) .... Lulu Fraker

Family Money (1997) TV Series .... Frances Pye

What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) (TV) .... Mrs. Tynan

Daylight (1996) .... Eleanor Trilling

Mighty Aphrodite (1995) .... Amanda's Mother

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995) .... Stringer's Wife

Village Affair, A (1994) .... Cecily Jordan

As the World Turns (1956) TV Series .... Orlena Grimaldi

Princess and the Goblin, The (1993) (voice) .... Fairy Godmother

Remember (1993) (TV) .... Anne Deveraux Rawlings

Age of Innocence, The (1993) (uncredited)

It's Nothing Personal (1993) (TV) .... Evelyn Whitloff

Mirror Crack'd, The (1992) (TV) .... Marina Gregg

Camomile Lawn, The (1992) (mini) TV Series .... Sophy

Pas de deux (1990) .... Maria Cruz

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) .... Miriam Rosenthal

Lady and the Highwayman, The (1989) (TV) .... Lady Emma Darlington

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988) (TV) .... Lady Delamere

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) .... Alice

Queenie (1987) (TV) .... Vicky Kelley

Intimate Contact (1987) (TV) .... Ruth Gregory

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) (TV) .... Czarina Alexandra

Hold the Dream (1986) (TV) .... Edwina, Lady Dunvale

Liberty (1986) (TV) .... Madame Bartholdi

Shadowlands (1985) (TV) .... Joy Davidman

This Lightning Always Strikes Twice (1985) (TV)

Time and the Conways (1985) (TV) .... Mrs. Conway

Promises to Keep (1985) (TV) .... Sally

Déjà Vu (1985) .... Eleanor Harvey

Florence Nightingale (1985) (TV) .... Fanny Nightingale

Oedipus the King (1984) (TV) .... Jocasta

Life and Death of King John, The (1984) (TV) .... Constance

Ellis Island (1984) (mini) TV Series .... Rebecca Weiler

Ghost Writer, The (1984) (TV) .... Hope

Separate Tables (1983) (TV) .... Miss Cooper

Cymbeline (1982) (TV) .... Queen

Brideshead Revisited (1981) (mini) TV Series

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) (TV) .... Gertrude

Henry VIII (1979) (TV) .... Katharine

Shakespeare Plays, The (1979) TV Series

Oresteia (1979) (mini) TV Series .... Athene

Backstairs at the White House (1979) (mini) TV Series .... Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

Islands in the Stream (1977) .... Audrey

Doll's House, A (1973/I) .... Nora Helmer

Going Up of David Lev, The (1971) (TV) .... Hannah

Red Sky at Morning (1971) .... Ann Arnold

Severed Head, A (1970) .... Honor Klein

Three Into Two Won't Go (1969) .... Frances Howard

Illustrated Man, The (1969) .... Felicia

Charly (1968) .... Alice Kinnian

Soldier in Love (1967) (TV) .... Queen Anne

Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The (1965) .... Nan Perry

Outrage, The (1964) .... Wife

Alta infedeltà (1964) .... Laura (segment "Peccato nel pomeriggio")

80,000 Suspects (1963) .... Julie Monks

Maestro di Vigevano, Il (1963) .... Ada

Haunting, The (1963) .... Theodora

Chapman Report, The (1962) .... Naomi Shields

Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, The (1962) .... Dorothea Grimm

Anna Karenina (1961/II) (TV) .... Anna

Schachnovelle (1960) .... Irene Andreny

Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1959) (voice) .... Sheperdess

Look Back in Anger (1958) .... Helena Charles

Buccaneer, The (1958) .... Bonnie Brown

Brthers Karamazov, The (1958) .... Katya

Alexander the Great (1956) .... Barsine

Romeo and Juliet (1955/III) (TV) .... Juliet

Richard III (1955) .... The Lady Anne

Man Between, The (1953) .... Susanne Mallison

Innocents in Paris (1952) .... Susan Robbins

Limelight (1952) .... Thereza

Blind Goddess, The (1948) .... Mary Dearing
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