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{{Short description|British actress (born 1931)}}
'''Claire Bloom''' (born '''Patricia Claire Blume''' on [[February 15]] [[1931]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actor|actress]].
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| name = Claire Bloom
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|CBE}}
| image = Claire Bloom - Karamazov - B.jpg
| caption = Bloom in 1958
| birth_name = Patricia Claire Blume
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|2|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Municipal Borough of Finchley|Finchley]], [[Middlesex]], England
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| education = [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]]<br />[[Central School of Speech and Drama]]
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1946–present
| spouse = {{ubl
| {{marriage|[[Rod Steiger]]|1959|1969|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|[[Hillard Elkins]]|1969|1972|end=divorced}}
| {{marriage|[[Philip Roth]]|1990|1995|end=divorced}}
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| children = [[Anna Steiger]]
| relatives = [[John Bloom (film editor)|John Bloom]] (brother)
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'''Patricia Claire Bloom''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born 15 February 1931) is an English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two [[BAFTA Awards]] and a [[Drama Desk Award]] as well as nominations for a [[Primetime Emmy Award]], a [[Grammy Award]] and a [[Tony Award]]. She was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.


After a childhood spent in various places in England and Florida, Bloom studied drama in London. She debuted on the London stage when she was sixteen and took roles in various [[Shakespeare]] plays. They included ''[[Hamlet]],'' in which she played [[Ophelia]] alongside [[Richard Burton]]. She rose to prominence playing leading roles in stage productions of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]],'' ''[[A Doll's House]]'', and ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]''. She made her [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] debut in the play ''[[Richard II]]'' (1956). She received a [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play]] nomination for her role in ''[[Electra]]'' (1999).
She was born in the [[North London]] suburb of [[Finchley]], to Edward Blume (the son of [[Jewish]] immigrants, originally named Blumenthal, from [[Russia]] and [[Latvia]]) and Elizabeth Grew (a descendant of [[Jewish]] immigrants from [[Poland]] originally named Griewki).


Bloom made her film debut in ''[[The Blind Goddess (1948 film)|The Blind Goddess]]'' (1948). Her breakthrough came with a leading role acting opposite [[Charlie Chaplin]] in [[Limelight (1952 film)|''Limelight'']] (1952) where she was nominated for the [[BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles|BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer]]. She went on to act in films such as ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard III]]'' (1955), ''[[Alexander the Great (1956 film)|Alexander the Great]]'' (1956), ''[[The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)|The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1958), ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)|The Haunting]]'' (1963), ''[[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came In from the Cold]]'' (1965), ''[[Charly (1968 film)|Charly]]'' (1968), ''[[A Doll's House (1973 Garland film)|A Doll's House]]'' (1973), ''[[Clash of the Titans (1981 film)|Clash of the Titans]]'' (1981), and ''[[Shadowlands (1985 film)|Shadowlands]]'' (1985). She later acted in the [[Woody Allen]] films ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]'' (1989) and ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]'' (1995), and portrayed [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] in historical drama ''[[The King's Speech]]'' (2010).
She is known for playing Shakespearean roles, as well as for appearing in [[motion picture|movie]]s, for example [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s movie [[Limelight]], [[Laurence Olivier]]'s ''[[Richard III (1955 movie)|Richard III]]'' and [[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]] with [[Richard Burton]].


During her film career, she has starred alongside numerous major actors, including [[Richard Burton]], [[Laurence Olivier]], [[John Gielgud]], [[Paul Scofield]], [[Ralph Richardson]], [[Yul Brynner]], [[George C. Scott]], [[James Mason]], [[Paul Newman]], [[Julie Harris]], [[Anthony Hopkins]], [[Rod Steiger]] and [[Jerry Lewis]].
She was married to both [[Academy Award]] winning [[actor]] [[Rod Steiger]] and the [[American]] [[author]] [[Philip Roth]], both of which marriages ended in divorce. In her memoir, ''Leaving a Doll's House'', she claims Roth's sexual promiscuity ended their marriage.


== Early life and education ==
She has a daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, by her marriage to the late [[Rod Steiger]].
[[File:Claire Bloom - Karamazov-1.jpg|left|thumb|170px|Bloom in ''[[The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)|The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1958)]]


Bloom was born on 15 February 1931 as Patricia Claire Blume in [[Finchley]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Bloom, Claire (1931–) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/bloom-claire-1931 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |publisher=[[Cengage]] |access-date=November 26, 2022}}</ref> then part of [[Middlesex]] (now a suburb of [[North London]]), the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, a "not very successful" salesman.<ref name="thejc.com">{{cite news|last=Frazer|first=Jenni|url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/claire-bloom-a-star-who-lives-up-to-her-name-1.430246|title=Interview: Claire Bloom|newspaper=[[The Jewish Chronicle]]|date=6 January 2017|access-date=23 April 2023}}</ref> Her paternal grandparents, originally named Blumenthal, as well as her maternal grandparents, originally named Gravitzky, were Jewish emigrants from Byten in the [[Grodno]] region of Russia, now in [[Belarus]], Eastern Europe.<ref name="LDH">{{cite book|last=Bloom|first=Claire|title=Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir|publisher=[[Back Bay Books]]|date=April 1998|isbn= 978-0316093835}}</ref>{{rp|1–2}}<ref>{{cite news|first=Nate |last=Bloom |author-link=Nate Bloom |title=Jewish Stars 1/21 |newspaper=[[Cleveland Jewish News]]|date=January 21, 2011|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/jewish-stars/article_e18fd01c-f10f-5765-8708-bc3311fa7e6d.html}}</ref>


Bloom's education was "somewhat haphazard"; she was sent to the independent [[Badminton School]] in Bristol, but when her father encountered financial difficulties the family relocated to Cornwall, where she attended the local village school. She later studied stage acting at the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]], London,<ref name="jeffries" /> and continued her studies under [[Elsie Fogerty]] at the [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama|Central School of Speech and Drama]], then based in the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London.<ref>V&A, Theatre and Performance Special Collections, Elsie Fogerty Archive, THM/324</ref>
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After the Luftwaffe began bombing London during [[the Blitz]] in 1940 her family had a number of narrow escapes as bombs dropped close to their home. While their father remained in England, she and her brother [[John Bloom (film editor)|John]] went with their mother to the United States, where she spent a year living in [[Florida]] with a paternal uncle's family; during this time her mother worked in her aunt's dress shop, "but she proved to be a dreadful saleswoman".<ref name="Claire Bloom">{{cite web |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bloom-claire |title=Claire Bloom |first=Natasha|last=Lehrer |work=Jewish Women's Archive |others=Updated by JWA Staff |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="thejc.com"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Hubbard|first=Kim|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20142613,00.html|title=Life with Portnoy: Claire Bloom Has a Few Complaints of Her Own|date=28 October 1996|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=46|issue=18|others=Contributed to by Nina Biddle|quote=She and her younger brother John (now 60 and a film editor) were closer to their mother|access-date=28 May 2015}}</ref> She recalls, "It was 1941; I was ten, John was nearly six. We were to sail from [[Glasgow]] in a convoy, on a ship that was evacuating children."<ref name="Bloom">{{cite book|last=Bloom|first=Claire|title=Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|year=1982|isbn=978-0060149260|url=https://archive.org/details/limelightaftered00bloo}}</ref>{{rp|26}} During her year's stay in Florida, she was asked by the [[British War Relief Society]] to help raise money by entertaining at various benefits, which she then did for a number of weeks. "Thus I broke into show business singing", she writes.<ref name="Bloom" />{{rp|30}} Bloom, along with her mother and brother, next lived in New York with their mother's cousin for another eighteen months before returning to England. It was in New York that she decided to become an actress, after her mother took her to see the Broadway play ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' for her twelfth birthday:
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{{blockquote|From then on I thought only of going into the theatre and playing in [[Chekhov]]. ... Chekhov was ''moving''. That's what I was looking for—something more moving even than my own plight as a little English girl driven from my home by the Gods of War.<ref name="Bloom" />{{rp|36}}}}
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They returned to England in 1943, and due to her father's improved business lived in Mayfair, but her parents' marriage ended shortly afterwards – so her father could marry his girlfriend – and she had no contact with him for many years.<ref name="Claire Bloom"/><ref name="thejc.com"/>

==Acting career==
===1946–1969: Early roles and breakthrough ===
[[File:Claire Bloom - Juliet - 1957.jpg|thumb|right|With [[John Neville (actor)|John Neville]] in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1957)]]
Bloom made her debut on [[BBC]] radio programmes. She made her stage debut in 1946 when she was 15 with the [[Oxford]] Repertory Theatre. Bloom debuted aged 16 at the [[Shakespeare Memorial Theatre]] as Ophelia to Paul Scofield's Hamlet; [[Robert Helpmann]] alternated playing the prince. Bloom has written that during the production she had a crush on Scofield. As Scofield was married and the father of a son, Bloom hoped only, "to be flirted with and taken some notice of". She later recalled, "I could never make up my mind which of my two Hamlets I found the more devastating: the openly homosexual, charismatic Helpmann, or the charming, shy young man from Sussex."<ref name="LDH" />{{rp|43}} When asked about Bloom years later, Scofield recalled, "Sixteen years old I think—so very young and necessarily inexperienced, she looked lovely, she acted with a daunting assurance which belied entirely her inexperience of almost timid reticence. She was a very good Ophelia."<ref>{{cite book|first=Garry|last=O'Connor|title=Paul Scofield: An Actor for All Seasons|publisher=[[Applause Books]]|year=2002|page=[https://archive.org/details/paulscofieldacto0000ocon/page/76 76]|isbn=978-1557834997|url=https://archive.org/details/paulscofieldacto0000ocon/page/76}}</ref>

Her London stage debut was in 1947 in the [[Christopher Fry]] play ''[[The Lady's Not For Burning]]'', which starred Sir John Gielgud and [[Pamela Brown (actress)|Pamela Brown]] and featured a young Richard Burton. It also played on Broadway in New York City. It was during the rehearsals for the play that Burton and Bloom began a long love affair. The following year she received acclaim for her portrayal of Ophelia in ''Hamlet'', starring Burton. Although Burton was at that time married to [[Sybil Christopher]], fellow actor and friend of Burton, [[Stanley Baker]], seeing how attracted he was to Bloom, commented that he "thought that this might be the time when Rich actually left Sybil."<ref name="Munn" /> In his later years, Burton told his biographer, Michael Munn, "'I only ever loved two women before [[Elizabeth Taylor|Elizabeth]],' Sybil was one, Claire Bloom the other."<ref name="Munn">{{cite book|last=Munn|first=Michael|title=Richard Burton: Prince of Players|publisher=[[Skyhorse Publishing]]|year=2008|isbn=978-1602393554|url=https://archive.org/details/richardburtonpri00munn}}</ref>{{rp|52, 85}} Of her Juliet in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (1957), critic [[Kenneth Tynan]] stated it was "the best Juliet I've ever seen". After she starred as [[Blanche DuBois]] in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', its playwright, [[Tennessee Williams]], stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom".

[[File:Chaplin - Bloom - 1952-1.jpg|left|thumb|170px|With Charlie Chaplin in ''Limelight'' (1952)]]
Bloom's first film role was in the 1948 film ''[[The Blind Goddess (1948 film)|The Blind Goddess]]''.<ref name="bfi">{{cite news| url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/claire-bloom | work=[[Screenonline]] | title=Claire Bloom at 90: a new interview with the veteran of British stage and screen | first=Alex | last=Ramon | date=15 February 2021 | access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> She trained at the [[Rank Organisation]]'s [[The Company of Youth|charm school]]<ref name="jeffries">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/23/screen-gods-guilt-and-glamour-actor-claire-bloom-on-her-life-in-the-limelight | work=[[The Guardian]] | title=Screen gods, guilt and glamour: actor Claire Bloom on her life in the limelight | first=Stuart | last=Jeffries | date=23 December 2016 | access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref> but did not stay with that company for long. Her international screen debut came in the 1952 film ''Limelight'', when she was chosen by Charlie Chaplin, who also directed, to co-star alongside him. The film catapulted Bloom to stardom.<ref name="bfi" /> Biographer Dan Kamin states that ''Limelight'' is a similar story to Chaplin's ''[[City Lights]]'', made twenty years earlier, in which Chaplin also helps a heroine overcome a physical handicap. In this film, Bloom plays a suicidal ballerina who "suffers from [[Conversion disorder|hysterical paralysis]]".<ref name=Kamin>{{cite book|last=Kamin|first=Dan|title=The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion|publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]]|year=2011|pages=94, 191|isbn=978-0810877801|others=Foreword by Scott Eyman}}</ref>

The film had personal meaning for Chaplin as it contained numerous references to his life and family: the theatre where he and Bloom performed in the film was the same theatre where his mother gave her last performance;{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Bloom was directed by Chaplin to wear dresses similar to those his mother used to wear; Chaplin's sons and his half-brother all had parts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kohn|first=Ingeborg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3Qq-3nT8t4C&q=Bloom|title=Charlie Chaplin, Brightest star of silent films|publisher=Portaparole|year=2005|page=76|isbn=9788889421147|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref> Bloom states that she felt one of the reasons she got the part was because she closely resembled his young wife, [[Oona O'Neill]].<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcG6Ffb9SUg|title=Claire Bloom talks about 'Limelight' and Charlie Chaplin|date=9 October 2012|publisher=YouTube|medium=Video|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOJu4wgUcjk|title=Tony Earnshaw in conversation with Claire Bloom|date=25 March 2011|medium=Video|publisher=YouTube|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref><ref name="bfi" /> In his autobiography, Chaplin writes that he had no doubt the film would be a success: "I had fewer qualms about its success than any picture I had ever made."<ref name=Kamin/> Chaplin explains his decision to make Bloom co-star despite this being her first film:

{{blockquote|In casting the girl's part I wanted the impossible: beauty, talent, and a great emotional range. After months of searching and testing with disappointing results, I eventually had the good fortune to sign up Claire Bloom, who was recommended by my friend [[Arthur Laurents]].<ref name="KF" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Chaplin|first=Charles|title=Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|year=1964|page=458|isbn= 9780140025507}}</ref>}}
[[File:Claire Bloom Richard Burton Alexander the Great.jpg|thumb|right|Claire Bloom as [[Barsine]], with Richard Burton as [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]], in ''Alexander the Great'' (1956)]]
She was subsequently featured in a number of "costume" roles in films such as ''[[Alexander the Great (1956 film)|Alexander the Great]]'' (1956),<ref name="jeffries" /> ''[[The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)|The Brothers Karamazov]]'' (1958),<ref>{{Cite web|title="The Brothers Karamazov." AFI Catalog.|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/52490|access-date=2023-07-10}}</ref> ''[[The Buccaneer (1958 film)|The Buccaneer]]'' (1958),<ref name="shelden" /> and ''[[The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm]]'' (1962).<ref>{{Cite web|title="The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm." AFI Catalog.|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23382|access-date=2023-07-10}}</ref> Bloom also appeared in Laurence Olivier's film version of ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard&nbsp;III]]'' (1955), in which she played Lady Anne,<ref name="bfi" /> [[Ibsen]]'s ''[[A Doll's House (1973 Garland film)|A Doll's House]]'' (1973) for which she won Best Actress award at [[Taormina International Film Festival]],{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} ''[[The Outrage]]'' (1964) with Paul Newman and [[Laurence Harvey]],<ref>{{Cite web|title="The Outrage." AFI Catalog.|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/23312|access-date=2023-07-10}}</ref> as well as the films ''[[Look Back in Anger (1959 film)|Look Back in Anger]]'' (1959) and ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'' (1965), both with [[Richard Burton]].<ref name="bfi" /> Of Bloom's character in ''Spy'', novelist [[David Plante]] writes that "Claire's refined beauty appears to be one with the refinement of a culture she represents as an actress."<ref>{{cite book|last=Plante|first=David|title=Becoming a Londoner: A Diary|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|year=2013|page=491|isbn=978-1408839751}}</ref> In a 2002 interview with [[Michael Shelden]], Bloom said of Burton, "He had it all: intelligence, physical beauty, an incredible voice. There was no one else like him. When we were at the Old Vic, he proved that a working-class actor could make it, and I was proud of him. I thought he set a great example in a society that was, and still is, so preoccupied with class and accent."<ref name="shelden">{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4727506/Theres-more-to-life-than-men.html | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | title='There's more to life than men' | first=Michael | last=Shelden | author-link=Michael Shelden | date=18 March 2002 | access-date=1 July 2017}}</ref>

=== 1970–1989: Theatre roles and acclaim ===
[[File:Claire Bloom - 1971.jpg|thumb|left|170px|In Broadway stage play ''Hedda Gabler'', 1971]]
Bloom has appeared in a number of plays and theatrical works in both London and New York. Those works include ''[[Look Back in Anger]]''; ''[[Rashomon (play)|Rashomon]]''; 'Duel of Angels' (by [[Jean Giraudoux]]), co-starring with [[Vivien Leigh]], in 1958;<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dycks.com/vivienleigh/theatrel.htm |title=Vivien Leigh: The Later Years – Theatre, 1950s & 1960s |year=2003 |publisher=The Vivien Leigh Pages |work=Dycks.com/vivienleigh |access-date=2 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729084132/http://www.dycks.com/vivienleigh/theatrel.htm |archive-date=29 July 2012 }}</ref> and Bloom's favourite role, that of Blanche DuBois, in a revival of the [[Tennessee Williams]] play, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', which played in London in 1974. Critic [[Clive Barnes]] described the play as a "notable example of what the classic revival should be&nbsp;– well groomed, but thoughtful, expressive, illuminating."<ref name="Kolin">{{cite book|last=Kolin|first=Philip C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=duVcT5J4qWIC&q=Clive+Barnes|title=Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2000|page=97|isbn=9780521626101|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref> Another critic writes that Bloom's portrayal of Blanche featured "remarkable layers of vitality and tenderness", and playwright Williams stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom."<ref name= "Kolin" /> Bloom has also performed in one-woman shows that included monologues from several of her stage performances.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/21/books/women-triumphant-in-claire-bloom-series.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Women Triumphant In Claire Bloom Series | date=21 February 1989 | access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="franco">{{cite news|last=Franco|first=Jose|url=https://eu.goupstate.com/story/news/2000/05/02/claire-bloom-knows-shakespeare-and-she39s-not-afraid-to-act-on-it/29621023007/|title=Claire Bloom knows Shakespeare and she's not afraid to act on it|newspaper=[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal]]|date=2 May 2000|access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref> She also starred in the 1976 Broadway revival of ''[[The Innocents (play)|The Innocents]]''.<ref name="roth">{{cite news| url=https://www.vulture.com/article/philip-roth-biography-blake-bailey-excerpt.html | work=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] | title=Novelist Philip Roth's Unsettled Marriage to Claire Bloom | first=Blake | last=Bailey | author-link=Blake Bailey | date=6 April 2021 | access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> In the 1960s she began to play more contemporary roles, including an unhinged housewife in ''[[The Chapman Report]]'',<ref name="bfi" /> a psychologist opposite Cliff Robertson's Oscar-winning role in ''[[Charly (1968 film)|Charly]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title="Charly." AFI Catalog.|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23761|access-date=2023-07-10}}</ref> and Theodora in ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)|The Haunting]]''.<ref name="thejc.com" /> She played [[Hera]] in ''[[Clash of the Titans (1981 film)|Clash of the Titans]]'', reuniting her with Olivier who played [[Zeus]].

Bloom has appeared in numerous roles on television such as her portrayal of Lady Marchmain in ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)|Brideshead Revisited]]'' (1981).<ref name="bfi" /> In 1996, she wrote, "I still find it puzzling when I am told I played a manipulative and heartless woman; that is not how I saw her. Lady Marchmain is deeply religious, and her dilemma includes trying to raise a wilful brood of children on her own, while instilling them with her rigid observance of the Catholic code. Sebastian is both an alcoholic and a homosexual, and from her point of view, he lives in a state of [[mortal sin]]. She has to fight for his soul by any means in her power, with the knowledge that her efforts may lead to his destruction. A born crusader, the Marchioness confronts her difficult choices head on; her rigidity of purpose, which I don't in any way share, is understandable in context. The aspect that rings most true is her sense of being an outsider, a Catholic in Protestant England. Not such a leap from being a Jew in Protestant England as one would imagine."<ref name="LDH" />{{rp|162}}

Other work includes two prominent [[BBC Television]] productions for director [[Rudolph Cartier]]: co-starring with [[Sean Connery]] in ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' (1961),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7947501/Lost-BBC-period-drama-of-Anna-Karenina-found-starring-Sean-Connery.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7947501/Lost-BBC-period-drama-of-Anna-Karenina-found-starring-Sean-Connery.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lost BBC period drama of Anna Karenina found starring Sean Connery|date=17 August 2010|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|department=TV and Radio|access-date=28 May 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and playing [[Catherine Earnshaw|Cathy]] in ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' with [[Keith Michell]] as [[Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)|Heathcliff]] (1962).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1181098/index.html|title=Cartier, Rudolph (1904–1994)|first=Oliver|last=Wake|website=[[Screenonline]]|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref> She also appeared as First Lady [[Edith Wilson]] in ''[[Backstairs at the White House]]'' (1979);<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dcwritershomes.wdchumanities.org/lillian-rogers-parks/|title=Lillian Rogers Parks|website=DC Writers' Homes|date=23 August 2017 |access-date=2023-07-11}}</ref> as [[Joy Gresham]], the wife of [[C.S. Lewis]] in ''[[Shadowlands (1985 film)|Shadowlands]]'' for which she received the BAFTA Award as Best Actress (1985).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1986/television/actress|title=BAFTA {{!}} Television {{!}} Actress in 1986|website=bafta.org|access-date=2023-04-23}}</ref>

=== 1990–present: Television work and later roles ===
[[File:GuyPearceClaireBloomJan11.jpg|thumb|Bloom with [[Guy Pearce]], a fellow actor in ''The King's Speech'', January 2011]]
She also appeared in the [[Woody Allen]] films ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]'' (1989) and ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]'' (1995).<ref name="franco" /> She appeared in the [[Sylvester Stallone]] film ''[[Daylight (1996 film)|Daylight]]'' (1996).<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/15/movies/daylight.html | work=[[New York Times]] | title=Daylight | first=Peter M. | last=Nichols | date=December 15, 1996 | access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref> Later appearances in films included her portrayal of [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] in the 2010 Oscar winning British film ''[[The King's Speech]]'' and her portrayal of Eva Rose opposite Jerry Lewis in the 2016 film ''[[Max Rose (film)|Max Rose]]''.<ref name="Claire Bloom" /><ref name="KF">{{cite news|last=Fujishima|first=Kenji|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/05/25/charlie-chaplin-is-the-father-claire-bloom-never-had/|title=Charlie Chaplin Is the Father Claire Bloom Never Had|date=25 May 2011|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|department=Speakeasy|access-date=28 May 2015}}</ref> In television she acted in ''[[The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side|The Mirror Crack'd]]'', the last of the BBC [[Miss Marple (TV series)|Miss Marple]] adaptations in 1992;<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/swansong-for-miss-marple-1560939.html | work=[[The Independent]] | title=Swan Song for Miss Marple? | date=2 December 1992 | access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref> and as the older Sophy in the serial ''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]'' (1992) on Britain's [[Channel 4]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1295276/index.html |title=Camomile Lawn, The (1992) |first=Sergio|last=Angelini |work=[[Screenonline]] |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref> Recent mini-series work includes ''[[The Ten Commandments (2006)]]'' and ''[[Summer of Rockets]]''.<ref name="Claire Bloom" /> On continuing television series, she has appeared on the New York-based ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]''. From 1994 to 1995, she portrayed villainess Orlena Grimaldi on the daytime drama ''[[As the World Turns]]''.<ref name="KF" /> She also had major roles in several of the ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare]]'' presentations<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/526970/index.html |title=Henry VIII (1979) |first=Michael|last=Brooke |work=[[Screenonline]] |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/527101/index.html |title=Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) |first=Michael|last=Brooke |work=[[Screenonline]] |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/527675/index.html |title=Cymbeline (1983) |first=Michael|last=Brooke |work=[[Screenonline]] |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref> and has led workshops on Shakespearean performance practices.<ref name="franco" />

In 2003, Bloom did a stage reading of [[John Milton|Milton's]] ''[[Samson Agonistes]]'' along with actor [[John Neville (actor)|John Neville]] at [[Bryn Mawr College]] at the behest of poet [[Karl Kirchwey]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Karen|last=Heller|title= Bryn Mawr shows creative side as it makes way for arts|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=1 May 2003|url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/2003/05/01/bryn-mawr-shows-creative-side-as-it-makes-way-for-arts/|access-date= 26 May 2015}}</ref> In December 2006, she appeared on the London stage in [[Arthur Allan Seidelman]]'s production of ''[[Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks]]'' by [[Richard Alfieri]], a two-hander in which she co-starred with [[Billy Zane]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/dec/01/theatre|title = Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks|first = Michael|last = Billington|date = 2 December 2006|access-date = 29 September 2016|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In October 2007, she appeared opposite [[Peter Bowles]] in ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'' at the [[Théâtre Princesse Grace]], [[Monte Carlo]], directed by [[Marc Sinden]], as part of his British Theatre Season, [[Monaco]]. In 2008, she guest starred in ''[[New Tricks (TV series)|New Tricks]]'' as actress Helen Brownlow. The story concerned the murder of Brownlow's husband whilst they were in a play together.<ref>{{Cite web|title="New Tricks: Series 5, Final Curtain." bbc.co.uk.|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmylf|access-date=2023-07-16}}</ref>

In December 2009 and January 2010, she appeared in the two-part ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story [[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|"The End of Time"]] as a mysterious [[Time Lord]] credited only as "The Woman". Series executive producer [[Russell T Davies]] revealed in his 2010 book ''[[Russell T Davies#The Writer's Tale|The Writer's Tale]]'' that the character is supposed to be [[The Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor's]] mother. In 2010, she guest starred as Jill Peters in ''[[The Bill]]'' in the episode "Taking a Stand" and played [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] in ''[[The King's Speech]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7901374/What-is-Claire-Bloom-doing-in-The-Bill-review.html|title = What is Claire Bloom doing in The Bill?|first = Benji|last = Wilson|date = 20 July 2010|access-date = 11 July 2023|newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref name="Claire Bloom" /> In September 2012, she appeared in concert at the [[Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall]], [[Baltimore]], Maryland, as the narrator in a performance of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s [[Symphony No. 3 (Bernstein)|Kaddish]], with the [[Baltimore Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Marin Alsop]].<ref>[http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559742 BERNSTEIN, L.: Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish"]</ref> In 2013, Bloom appeared in the sixth series of ITV's [[Doc Martin]] as the estranged mother of the title character. In 2015 she appeared as Matilda Stowe in ITV's ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode 17.4, "A Vintage Murder". In 2019, she appeared as Aunt Mary in the [[Stephen Poliakoff]] BBC TV mini-series, ''[[Summer of Rockets]]''. In 2022, she appeared as Margaret Ellingham (deceased mother of Dr. Martin Ellingham) in the last episode (10.9) of the ITV series Doc Martin.

==Personal life==
=== Marriages ===
Bloom has married three times.<ref name="thejc.com" /> Her first marriage, in 1959, was to actor [[Rod Steiger]], whom she met when they both performed in the play ''[[Rashomon (play)|Rashomon]]''.<ref name="steigerobit">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jul/10/guardianobituaries.filmnews1 | work=[[The Guardian]] | title=Obituary: Rod Steiger | first=Brian | last=Baxter | date=10 July 2002 | access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> Their daughter is opera singer [[Anna Steiger]].<ref name="steigerobit" /><ref name="roth" /> Steiger and Bloom divorced in 1969.<ref name="roth" /> In that same year, Bloom married producer [[Hillard Elkins]].<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,898568,00.html | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | title=Milestones: Aug. 22, 1969 | date=22 August 1969 | access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> The marriage lasted for three years, and the couple divorced in 1972.{{cn|date=July 2023}} Bloom's third marriage on 29 April 1990, was to writer [[Philip Roth]], her longtime companion.<ref name="BB_PR_biog">{{cite book |last1=Bailey |first1=Blake |title=Philip Roth: The Biography |date=2021 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |isbn=9780224098175 |pages=533–535}}</ref> They divorced in 1995.<ref name="jeffries" />

=== Memoir ===
Bloom has written two memoirs about her life and career. The first, ''Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress'', was published in 1982 and was an in-depth look at her career and the film and stage roles she had portrayed.<ref name="roth" /> Her second book, ''[[Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir]]'', published in 1996, went into greater details about her personal life; she discussed not only her marriages but also her affairs with Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, and Yul Brynner.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/reviews/leavingadollshouse.htm | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | title=What She Did For Love | first=Jonathan | last=Yardley | author-link=Jonathan Yardley | date=20 October 1996 | access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> The book created a stir when Bloom described her former marriage to Roth. Soon after, Roth wrote a "revenge novel" ''[[I Married a Communist]]'' (1998), in which the character of Eve Frame appeared to represent Bloom.<ref>{{cite news|last=Grant|first=Linda|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1998/oct/03/fiction.philiproth|title=The Wrath of Roth|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 October 1998|department=Books|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Rachelle|last=Thackray|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/roth-takes-novel-revenge-on-exwife-claire-bloom-1177502.html|title=Roth takes novel revenge on ex-wife Claire Bloom|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=11 October 1998|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref>

==Acting credits==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1948
| ''[[The Blind Goddess (1948 film)|The Blind Goddess]]''
| Mary Dearing
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1952
| ''[[The King and the Mockingbird]]''
| The Shepherdess
| Voice<br /> English version
|-
| ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|Limelight]]''
| Thereza
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1953
| ''[[Innocents in Paris]]''
| Susan
|
|-
| ''[[The Man Between]]''
| Susanne Mallison
|
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Richard III (1955 film)|Richard III]]''
| [[Anne Neville|Lady Anne]]
|
|-
| 1956
| ''[[Alexander the Great (1956 film)|Alexander the Great]]''
| [[Barsine]]
|
|-
| rowspan=2| 1958
| ''[[The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)|The Brothers Karamazov]]''
| Katya
|
|-
| ''[[The Buccaneer (1958 film)|The Buccaneer]]''
| Bonnie Brown
|
|-
|1959
| ''[[Look Back in Anger (1959 film)|Look Back in Anger]]''
| Helena Charles
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Brainwashed (film)|Brainwashed]]''
| Irene Andreny
|
|-
| rowspan=2| 1962
| ''[[The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm]]''
| Dorothea Grimm
|
|-
| ''[[The Chapman Report]]''
| Naomi Shields
|
|-
| rowspan=3|1963
| ''[[80,000 Suspects]]''
| Julie Monks
|
|-
| ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)|The Haunting]]''
| Theodora
|
|-
| ''[[Il maestro di Vigevano]]''
| Ada
|
|-
| rowspan=2| 1964
| ''[[Alta infedeltà]]''
| Laura
|
|-
| ''[[The Outrage]]''
| Wife
|
|-
| 1965
| ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]''
| Nan Perry
|
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Charly (1968 film)|Charly]]''
| Alice Kinnian
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1969
| ''[[The Illustrated Man (film)|The Illustrated Man]]''
|Felicia
|
|-
| ''[[Three into Two Won't Go]]''
| Frances Howard
|
|-
| rowspan=2| 1971
| ''[[A Severed Head (film)|A Severed Head]]''
| Honor Klein
|
|-
| ''[[Red Sky at Morning (1971 film)|Red Sky at Morning]]''
| Ann Arnold
|
|-
| 1973
| ''[[A Doll's House (1973 Garland film)|A Doll's House]]''
| Nora Helmer
|
|-
| 1977
| ''[[Islands in the Stream (film)|Islands in the Stream]]''<ref name="KF" />
| Audrey
|
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Clash of the Titans (1981 film)|Clash of the Titans]]''<ref name="KF" />
| [[Hera]]
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Déjà Vu (1985 film)|Déjà Vu]]''
| Eleanor Harvey
|
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Sammy and Rosie Get Laid]]''
| Alice
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Crimes and Misdemeanors]]''
| Miriam Rosenthal
|
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Princess and the Goblin (film)|The Princess and the Goblin]]''
| Great Great Grandmother Irene
| Voice
|-
| rowspan=2| 1995
| ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (film)|''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'']]''
| Liz Stringer
|
|-
| ''[[Mighty Aphrodite]]''
| Mrs. Sloan
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Daylight (1996 film)|Daylight]]''
| Eleanor Trilling
|
|-
| 1998
| ''Wrestling WIth Alligators''
| Lulu Fraker
|
|-
| 2002
| ''The Book of Eve''
| Eva Smallwood
|
|-
| rowspan=3|2003
| ''[[The Republic of Love]]''
| Onion
|
|-
| ''[[Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin]]''
| Herself
|
|-
| ''[[Imagining Argentina (film)|Imagining Argentina]]''
| Sara Sternberg
|
|-
| 2004
| ''Daniel And The Superdogs''
| Claire Martin
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Kalamazoo?]]''
| Eleanor
|
|-
| 2010
|''[[The King's Speech]]''
| [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]]
|
|-
| 2012
|''[[And While We Were Here]]''
| Grandma Eves
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Max Rose (film)|Max Rose]]''
| Eva Rose
|
|-
| 2018
| ''Miss Dalí''
| Maggie
|
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1952
| ''[[BBC Sunday Night Theatre]]''
| Martine
| Season 3 episode 19: ''Martine''
|-
| rowspan=2|1957
| ''[[Goodyear Television Playhouse]]''
| Rose
| Season 6 episode 8: "First Love"
|-
| ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]''
| Queen Victoria
| Season 8 episode 31: ''Victoria Regina''
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Shirley Temple's Storybook]]''
| Beauty
| Season 1 episode 1: "Beauty and the Beast"
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Playhouse 90]]''
| Hypatia
| Season 4 episode 3: "Misalliance"
|-
| 1961
| ''Anna Karenina''
| Anna Karenina
| TV movie
|-
| 1979
| [[Backstairs at the White House]]
| [[Edith Wilson|Edith Bolling Galt Wilson]]
| TV mini-series
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Hamlet]]''
| Gertrude
| TV movie
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)|Brideshead Revisited]]''
| Lady Marchmain
| 6 episodes
|-
| 1983
| ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]''
| Miss Cooper
| TV movie
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Ellis Island (miniseries)|Ellis Island]]''
| Rebecca Weiller
| 3 episodes
|-
| rowspan=4|1985
| ''Ann and Debbie''
| Debbie
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[Shadowlands (1985 film)|Shadowlands]]''
| Joy Davidman
| TV movie
|-
| ''Promises to Keep''
| Sally
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[Time and the Conways]]''
| Mrs Conway
| TV movie
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Oedipus Rex|Oedipus the King]]''
| Jocasta
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1987
| ''[[Queenie (miniseries)|Queenie]]''
| Vicky Kelly
| 2 episodes
|-
| ''[[Intimate Contact]]''
| Ruth Gregory
| 4 episodes
|-
| rowspan=2|1988
| ''[[The Lady and the Highwayman]]''
| Lady Emma Darlington
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun]]''
| Lady Delamere
| TV movie
|-
| 1991
| ''[[The Camomile Lawn (TV serial)|The Camomile Lawn]]''
| Older Sophy
| Mini-series
|-
| rowspan=2|1992
| ''It's Nothing Personal''
| Evelyn Whitloff
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[Miss Marple (TV series)|Miss Marple]]: [[The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side]]''
| Marina Gregg
| TV movie
|-
| rowspan=3|1994
| ''Remember''
| Anne Devereaux Rawlings
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[A Village Affair (film)|A Village Affair]]''
| Cecily Jordan
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[As The World Turns]]''
| Orlena Grimaldi
| Soap opera
|-
| 1996
| ''Family Money''
| Fran Pye
| Mini series
|--
| 1997
| ''[[What the Deaf Man Heard]]''
| Mrs. Tynan
| TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2|2000
| ''Yesterday's Children''
|Maggie
| TV movie
|-
| ''Love and Murder''
| Nina Love
| TV movie
|-
|2004
|''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''
|Marion Whitney
|Season 3 episode 12: "Unrequited"
|-
| 2005–2022
| ''[[Doc Martin]]''
| Margaret Ellingham
| 5 episodes
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Marple]]''
| Aunt Ada
| Season 2 episode 3: "By the Pricking of My Thumbs"
|-
| 2008
| ''[[New Tricks]]''
| Helen Brownlow
| Season 5 episode 2: "Final Curtain"
|-
| 2009–2010
| "[[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|Doctor Who: The End of Time]]"
| The Woman
| 2 episodes
|-
| 2010
| ''[[The Bill]]''
| Jill Peters
| Season 26 episode 25: "Taking a Stand"
|-
|2015
| ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''
| Matilda Stowe
| Season 17 episode 4: ''A Vintage Murder''
|-
| 2019
| ''[[Summer of Rockets]]''
| Aunt Mary
| Mini-series
|-
|}

=== Theatre ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Venue
! class=unsortable|Ref.
|-
|1950 || ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' || || [[Gielgud Theatre]]||<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ring Around the Moon {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ring-around-moon |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1956 || ''[[Richard II]]'' || Queen to King Richard || rowspan=2|[[Winter Garden Theatre]], Broadway || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/king-richard-ii-winter-garden-theatre-vault-0000011583|title= King Richard II (Broadway, 1956)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' || [[Juliet]] || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/romeo-and-juliet-winter-garden-theatre-vault-0000011582|title= Romeo and Juliet (Broadway, 1956)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1959 || ''[[Rashomon]]'' || Wife || [[Music Box Theatre]], Broadway || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/rashomon-music-box-theatre-vault-0000002634|title= Rashomon (Broadway, 1959)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1971 || ''[[A Doll's House]]'' || Nora Helmer || rowspan=2|[[Playhouse Theater]], Broadway || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/a-dolls-house-playhouse-theatre-vault-0000013068|title= A Doll's House (Broadway, 1971)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' || [[Hedda Gabler#Characters|Hedda Tesman]] || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/hedda-gabler-playhouse-theatre-vault-0000013069|title= Hedda Gabler (Broadway, 1971)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1972 || ''[[Vivat! Vivat Regina!]]'' || [[Mary Queen of Scots]] || [[Broadhurst Theatre]], Broadway || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/vivat-vivat-regina-broadhurst-theatre-vault-0000002032|title= Vivat! Vivat! Regina! (Broadway, 1972)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1974 || ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' || [[Blanche DuBois]] || [[Piccadilly Theatre]] || <ref>{{Cite news |date=15 March 1974 |title=Claire Bloom brilliant in 'Streetcar' revival |first=John |last=Barber |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |issue=36955 |page=13}}</ref>
|-
|1976 || ''[[The Innocents (play)|The Innocents]]'' || Miss Bolton || [[Morosco Theatre]], Broadway || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/the-innocents-morosco-theatre-vault-0000002391|title= The Innocents (Broadway, 1976)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1998 || ''[[Electra (Sophocles play)|Electra]]'' || [[Clytemnestra]] || [[Ethel Barrymore Theatre]], Broadway || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/production/electra-ethel-barrymore-theatre-vault-0000004301|title= Electra (Broadway, 1998)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 14, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|}

==Awards and honours==
Bloom was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60534 |supp=y|page=7|date=15 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22904807|title=Birthday Honours: Adele joins Blackadder stars on list|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=14 June 2013|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Association
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! class=unsortable|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
|1952 || rowspan=3|[[BAFTA Award]] || [[BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles|Most Promising Newcomer]] || ''[[Limelight (1952 film)|Limelight]]'' || {{won}} || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1953/film|title= Film in 1953|website= [[BAFTA Awards|awards.bafta.org]]|accessdate= April 13, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1982 || rowspan=2|[[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] || ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV series)|Brideshead Revisited]]'' || {{nom}} || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1983/television|title= Television in 1983|website= [[BAFTA Awards|awards.bafta.org]]|accessdate= April 13, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1986 || ''[[Shadowlands (1985 film)|Shadowlands]]'' || {{won}} || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1987/television|title= Television in 1987|website= [[BAFTA Awards|awards.bafta.org]]|accessdate= April 13, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1982 || [[Primetime Emmy Award]] || [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special]] || ''Brideshead Revisited'' || {{nom}} || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.emmys.com/bios/claire-bloom|title= Claire Bloom - Emmy Awards, Nominations, and Wins|website= [[Emmy Awards]]|accessdate= April 13, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1979 || [[Grammy Award]] || [[Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording|Best Spoken Word Album]] || ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'' || {{nom}} || <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.grammy.com/artists/claire-bloom/913|title= Claire Bloom Artist|website= Grammy Awards|accessdate= April 13, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1971 || [[Drama Desk Award]] || Outstanding Performance || ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' / ''[[A Doll's House]]'' || {{won}} || rowspan=2|<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/person/claire-bloom-vault-0000104640|title= Claire Bloom (Performer)|website= Playbill|accessdate= April 13, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|1999 || [[Tony Award]] || [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play|Best Featured Actress in a Play]] || ''[[Electra (Sophocles play)|Electra]]'' || {{nom}}
|-
|}

== References ==
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* [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=Claire&amp;surname=BLOOM&amp;job=Actor&amp;pid=1254&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 Selected performances in University of Bristol Theatre Archive]

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Claire Bloom
CBE
Bloom in 1958
Born
Patricia Claire Blume

(1931-02-15) 15 February 1931 (age 93)
Finchley, Middlesex, England
EducationGuildhall School of Music and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active1946–present
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ChildrenAnna Steiger
RelativesJohn Bloom (brother)

Patricia Claire Bloom CBE (born 15 February 1931) is an English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two BAFTA Awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

After a childhood spent in various places in England and Florida, Bloom studied drama in London. She debuted on the London stage when she was sixteen and took roles in various Shakespeare plays. They included Hamlet, in which she played Ophelia alongside Richard Burton. She rose to prominence playing leading roles in stage productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll's House, and Long Day's Journey into Night. She made her Broadway debut in the play Richard II (1956). She received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her role in Electra (1999).

Bloom made her film debut in The Blind Goddess (1948). Her breakthrough came with a leading role acting opposite Charlie Chaplin in Limelight (1952) where she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She went on to act in films such as Richard III (1955), Alexander the Great (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), The Haunting (1963), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), Charly (1968), A Doll's House (1973), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Shadowlands (1985). She later acted in the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995), and portrayed Queen Mary in historical drama The King's Speech (2010).

During her film career, she has starred alongside numerous major actors, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Yul Brynner, George C. Scott, James Mason, Paul Newman, Julie Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Rod Steiger and Jerry Lewis.

Early life and education

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Bloom in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Bloom was born on 15 February 1931 as Patricia Claire Blume in Finchley,[1] then part of Middlesex (now a suburb of North London), the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, a "not very successful" salesman.[2] Her paternal grandparents, originally named Blumenthal, as well as her maternal grandparents, originally named Gravitzky, were Jewish emigrants from Byten in the Grodno region of Russia, now in Belarus, Eastern Europe.[3]: 1–2 [4]

Bloom's education was "somewhat haphazard"; she was sent to the independent Badminton School in Bristol, but when her father encountered financial difficulties the family relocated to Cornwall, where she attended the local village school. She later studied stage acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London,[5] and continued her studies under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London.[6]

After the Luftwaffe began bombing London during the Blitz in 1940 her family had a number of narrow escapes as bombs dropped close to their home. While their father remained in England, she and her brother John went with their mother to the United States, where she spent a year living in Florida with a paternal uncle's family; during this time her mother worked in her aunt's dress shop, "but she proved to be a dreadful saleswoman".[7][2][8] She recalls, "It was 1941; I was ten, John was nearly six. We were to sail from Glasgow in a convoy, on a ship that was evacuating children."[9]: 26  During her year's stay in Florida, she was asked by the British War Relief Society to help raise money by entertaining at various benefits, which she then did for a number of weeks. "Thus I broke into show business singing", she writes.[9]: 30  Bloom, along with her mother and brother, next lived in New York with their mother's cousin for another eighteen months before returning to England. It was in New York that she decided to become an actress, after her mother took her to see the Broadway play Three Sisters for her twelfth birthday:

From then on I thought only of going into the theatre and playing in Chekhov. ... Chekhov was moving. That's what I was looking for—something more moving even than my own plight as a little English girl driven from my home by the Gods of War.[9]: 36 

They returned to England in 1943, and due to her father's improved business lived in Mayfair, but her parents' marriage ended shortly afterwards – so her father could marry his girlfriend – and she had no contact with him for many years.[7][2]

Acting career

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1946–1969: Early roles and breakthrough

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With John Neville in Romeo and Juliet (1957)

Bloom made her debut on BBC radio programmes. She made her stage debut in 1946 when she was 15 with the Oxford Repertory Theatre. Bloom debuted aged 16 at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre as Ophelia to Paul Scofield's Hamlet; Robert Helpmann alternated playing the prince. Bloom has written that during the production she had a crush on Scofield. As Scofield was married and the father of a son, Bloom hoped only, "to be flirted with and taken some notice of". She later recalled, "I could never make up my mind which of my two Hamlets I found the more devastating: the openly homosexual, charismatic Helpmann, or the charming, shy young man from Sussex."[3]: 43  When asked about Bloom years later, Scofield recalled, "Sixteen years old I think—so very young and necessarily inexperienced, she looked lovely, she acted with a daunting assurance which belied entirely her inexperience of almost timid reticence. She was a very good Ophelia."[10]

Her London stage debut was in 1947 in the Christopher Fry play The Lady's Not For Burning, which starred Sir John Gielgud and Pamela Brown and featured a young Richard Burton. It also played on Broadway in New York City. It was during the rehearsals for the play that Burton and Bloom began a long love affair. The following year she received acclaim for her portrayal of Ophelia in Hamlet, starring Burton. Although Burton was at that time married to Sybil Christopher, fellow actor and friend of Burton, Stanley Baker, seeing how attracted he was to Bloom, commented that he "thought that this might be the time when Rich actually left Sybil."[11] In his later years, Burton told his biographer, Michael Munn, "'I only ever loved two women before Elizabeth,' Sybil was one, Claire Bloom the other."[11]: 52, 85  Of her Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1957), critic Kenneth Tynan stated it was "the best Juliet I've ever seen". After she starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, its playwright, Tennessee Williams, stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom".

With Charlie Chaplin in Limelight (1952)

Bloom's first film role was in the 1948 film The Blind Goddess.[12] She trained at the Rank Organisation's charm school[5] but did not stay with that company for long. Her international screen debut came in the 1952 film Limelight, when she was chosen by Charlie Chaplin, who also directed, to co-star alongside him. The film catapulted Bloom to stardom.[12] Biographer Dan Kamin states that Limelight is a similar story to Chaplin's City Lights, made twenty years earlier, in which Chaplin also helps a heroine overcome a physical handicap. In this film, Bloom plays a suicidal ballerina who "suffers from hysterical paralysis".[13]

The film had personal meaning for Chaplin as it contained numerous references to his life and family: the theatre where he and Bloom performed in the film was the same theatre where his mother gave her last performance;[citation needed] Bloom was directed by Chaplin to wear dresses similar to those his mother used to wear; Chaplin's sons and his half-brother all had parts.[14] Bloom states that she felt one of the reasons she got the part was because she closely resembled his young wife, Oona O'Neill.[15][16][12] In his autobiography, Chaplin writes that he had no doubt the film would be a success: "I had fewer qualms about its success than any picture I had ever made."[13] Chaplin explains his decision to make Bloom co-star despite this being her first film:

In casting the girl's part I wanted the impossible: beauty, talent, and a great emotional range. After months of searching and testing with disappointing results, I eventually had the good fortune to sign up Claire Bloom, who was recommended by my friend Arthur Laurents.[17][18]

Claire Bloom as Barsine, with Richard Burton as Alexander, in Alexander the Great (1956)

She was subsequently featured in a number of "costume" roles in films such as Alexander the Great (1956),[5] The Brothers Karamazov (1958),[19] The Buccaneer (1958),[20] and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962).[21] Bloom also appeared in Laurence Olivier's film version of Richard III (1955), in which she played Lady Anne,[12] Ibsen's A Doll's House (1973) for which she won Best Actress award at Taormina International Film Festival,[citation needed] The Outrage (1964) with Paul Newman and Laurence Harvey,[22] as well as the films Look Back in Anger (1959) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), both with Richard Burton.[12] Of Bloom's character in Spy, novelist David Plante writes that "Claire's refined beauty appears to be one with the refinement of a culture she represents as an actress."[23] In a 2002 interview with Michael Shelden, Bloom said of Burton, "He had it all: intelligence, physical beauty, an incredible voice. There was no one else like him. When we were at the Old Vic, he proved that a working-class actor could make it, and I was proud of him. I thought he set a great example in a society that was, and still is, so preoccupied with class and accent."[20]

1970–1989: Theatre roles and acclaim

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In Broadway stage play Hedda Gabler, 1971

Bloom has appeared in a number of plays and theatrical works in both London and New York. Those works include Look Back in Anger; Rashomon; 'Duel of Angels' (by Jean Giraudoux), co-starring with Vivien Leigh, in 1958;[24] and Bloom's favourite role, that of Blanche DuBois, in a revival of the Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which played in London in 1974. Critic Clive Barnes described the play as a "notable example of what the classic revival should be – well groomed, but thoughtful, expressive, illuminating."[25] Another critic writes that Bloom's portrayal of Blanche featured "remarkable layers of vitality and tenderness", and playwright Williams stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom."[25] Bloom has also performed in one-woman shows that included monologues from several of her stage performances.[26][27] She also starred in the 1976 Broadway revival of The Innocents.[28] In the 1960s she began to play more contemporary roles, including an unhinged housewife in The Chapman Report,[12] a psychologist opposite Cliff Robertson's Oscar-winning role in Charly,[29] and Theodora in The Haunting.[2] She played Hera in Clash of the Titans, reuniting her with Olivier who played Zeus.

Bloom has appeared in numerous roles on television such as her portrayal of Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited (1981).[12] In 1996, she wrote, "I still find it puzzling when I am told I played a manipulative and heartless woman; that is not how I saw her. Lady Marchmain is deeply religious, and her dilemma includes trying to raise a wilful brood of children on her own, while instilling them with her rigid observance of the Catholic code. Sebastian is both an alcoholic and a homosexual, and from her point of view, he lives in a state of mortal sin. She has to fight for his soul by any means in her power, with the knowledge that her efforts may lead to his destruction. A born crusader, the Marchioness confronts her difficult choices head on; her rigidity of purpose, which I don't in any way share, is understandable in context. The aspect that rings most true is her sense of being an outsider, a Catholic in Protestant England. Not such a leap from being a Jew in Protestant England as one would imagine."[3]: 162 

Other work includes two prominent BBC Television productions for director Rudolph Cartier: co-starring with Sean Connery in Anna Karenina (1961),[30] and playing Cathy in Wuthering Heights with Keith Michell as Heathcliff (1962).[31] She also appeared as First Lady Edith Wilson in Backstairs at the White House (1979);[32] as Joy Gresham, the wife of C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands for which she received the BAFTA Award as Best Actress (1985).[33]

1990–present: Television work and later roles

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Bloom with Guy Pearce, a fellow actor in The King's Speech, January 2011

She also appeared in the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995).[27] She appeared in the Sylvester Stallone film Daylight (1996).[34] Later appearances in films included her portrayal of Queen Mary in the 2010 Oscar winning British film The King's Speech and her portrayal of Eva Rose opposite Jerry Lewis in the 2016 film Max Rose.[7][17] In television she acted in The Mirror Crack'd, the last of the BBC Miss Marple adaptations in 1992;[35] and as the older Sophy in the serial The Camomile Lawn (1992) on Britain's Channel 4.[36] Recent mini-series work includes The Ten Commandments (2006) and Summer of Rockets.[7] On continuing television series, she has appeared on the New York-based Law & Order: Criminal Intent. From 1994 to 1995, she portrayed villainess Orlena Grimaldi on the daytime drama As the World Turns.[17] She also had major roles in several of the BBC Television Shakespeare presentations[37][38][39] and has led workshops on Shakespearean performance practices.[27]

In 2003, Bloom did a stage reading of Milton's Samson Agonistes along with actor John Neville at Bryn Mawr College at the behest of poet Karl Kirchwey.[40] In December 2006, she appeared on the London stage in Arthur Allan Seidelman's production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri, a two-hander in which she co-starred with Billy Zane.[41] In October 2007, she appeared opposite Peter Bowles in Love Letters at the Théâtre Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo, directed by Marc Sinden, as part of his British Theatre Season, Monaco. In 2008, she guest starred in New Tricks as actress Helen Brownlow. The story concerned the murder of Brownlow's husband whilst they were in a play together.[42]

In December 2009 and January 2010, she appeared in the two-part Doctor Who story "The End of Time" as a mysterious Time Lord credited only as "The Woman". Series executive producer Russell T Davies revealed in his 2010 book The Writer's Tale that the character is supposed to be the Doctor's mother. In 2010, she guest starred as Jill Peters in The Bill in the episode "Taking a Stand" and played Queen Mary in The King's Speech.[43][7] In September 2012, she appeared in concert at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, as the narrator in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.[44] In 2013, Bloom appeared in the sixth series of ITV's Doc Martin as the estranged mother of the title character. In 2015 she appeared as Matilda Stowe in ITV's Midsomer Murders episode 17.4, "A Vintage Murder". In 2019, she appeared as Aunt Mary in the Stephen Poliakoff BBC TV mini-series, Summer of Rockets. In 2022, she appeared as Margaret Ellingham (deceased mother of Dr. Martin Ellingham) in the last episode (10.9) of the ITV series Doc Martin.

Personal life

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Marriages

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Bloom has married three times.[2] Her first marriage, in 1959, was to actor Rod Steiger, whom she met when they both performed in the play Rashomon.[45] Their daughter is opera singer Anna Steiger.[45][28] Steiger and Bloom divorced in 1969.[28] In that same year, Bloom married producer Hillard Elkins.[46] The marriage lasted for three years, and the couple divorced in 1972.[citation needed] Bloom's third marriage on 29 April 1990, was to writer Philip Roth, her longtime companion.[47] They divorced in 1995.[5]

Memoir

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Bloom has written two memoirs about her life and career. The first, Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress, was published in 1982 and was an in-depth look at her career and the film and stage roles she had portrayed.[28] Her second book, Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir, published in 1996, went into greater details about her personal life; she discussed not only her marriages but also her affairs with Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, and Yul Brynner.[48] The book created a stir when Bloom described her former marriage to Roth. Soon after, Roth wrote a "revenge novel" I Married a Communist (1998), in which the character of Eve Frame appeared to represent Bloom.[49][50]

Acting credits

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1948 The Blind Goddess Mary Dearing
1952 The King and the Mockingbird The Shepherdess Voice
English version
Limelight Thereza
1953 Innocents in Paris Susan
The Man Between Susanne Mallison
1955 Richard III Lady Anne
1956 Alexander the Great Barsine
1958 The Brothers Karamazov Katya
The Buccaneer Bonnie Brown
1959 Look Back in Anger Helena Charles
1960 Brainwashed Irene Andreny
1962 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Dorothea Grimm
The Chapman Report Naomi Shields
1963 80,000 Suspects Julie Monks
The Haunting Theodora
Il maestro di Vigevano Ada
1964 Alta infedeltà Laura
The Outrage Wife
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Nan Perry
1968 Charly Alice Kinnian
1969 The Illustrated Man Felicia
Three into Two Won't Go Frances Howard
1971 A Severed Head Honor Klein
Red Sky at Morning Ann Arnold
1973 A Doll's House Nora Helmer
1977 Islands in the Stream[17] Audrey
1981 Clash of the Titans[17] Hera
1985 Déjà Vu Eleanor Harvey
1987 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Alice
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors Miriam Rosenthal
1991 The Princess and the Goblin Great Great Grandmother Irene Voice
1995 Mad Dogs and Englishmen Liz Stringer
Mighty Aphrodite Mrs. Sloan
1996 Daylight Eleanor Trilling
1998 Wrestling WIth Alligators Lulu Fraker
2002 The Book of Eve Eva Smallwood
2003 The Republic of Love Onion
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin Herself
Imagining Argentina Sara Sternberg
2004 Daniel And The Superdogs Claire Martin
2006 Kalamazoo? Eleanor
2010 The King's Speech Queen Mary
2012 And While We Were Here Grandma Eves
2013 Max Rose Eva Rose
2018 Miss Dalí Maggie

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1952 BBC Sunday Night Theatre Martine Season 3 episode 19: Martine
1957 Goodyear Television Playhouse Rose Season 6 episode 8: "First Love"
Robert Montgomery Presents Queen Victoria Season 8 episode 31: Victoria Regina
1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook Beauty Season 1 episode 1: "Beauty and the Beast"
1959 Playhouse 90 Hypatia Season 4 episode 3: "Misalliance"
1961 Anna Karenina Anna Karenina TV movie
1979 Backstairs at the White House Edith Bolling Galt Wilson TV mini-series
1980 Hamlet Gertrude TV movie
1981 Brideshead Revisited Lady Marchmain 6 episodes
1983 Separate Tables Miss Cooper TV movie
1984 Ellis Island Rebecca Weiller 3 episodes
1985 Ann and Debbie Debbie TV movie
Shadowlands Joy Davidman TV movie
Promises to Keep Sally TV movie
Time and the Conways Mrs Conway TV movie
1986 Oedipus the King Jocasta
1987 Queenie Vicky Kelly 2 episodes
Intimate Contact Ruth Gregory 4 episodes
1988 The Lady and the Highwayman Lady Emma Darlington TV movie
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun Lady Delamere TV movie
1991 The Camomile Lawn Older Sophy Mini-series
1992 It's Nothing Personal Evelyn Whitloff TV movie
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Marina Gregg TV movie
1994 Remember Anne Devereaux Rawlings TV movie
A Village Affair Cecily Jordan TV movie
As The World Turns Orlena Grimaldi Soap opera
1996 Family Money Fran Pye Mini series
1997 What the Deaf Man Heard Mrs. Tynan TV movie
2000 Yesterday's Children Maggie TV movie
Love and Murder Nina Love TV movie
2004 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Marion Whitney Season 3 episode 12: "Unrequited"
2005–2022 Doc Martin Margaret Ellingham 5 episodes
2006 Agatha Christie's Marple Aunt Ada Season 2 episode 3: "By the Pricking of My Thumbs"
2008 New Tricks Helen Brownlow Season 5 episode 2: "Final Curtain"
2009–2010 "Doctor Who: The End of Time" The Woman 2 episodes
2010 The Bill Jill Peters Season 26 episode 25: "Taking a Stand"
2015 Midsomer Murders Matilda Stowe Season 17 episode 4: A Vintage Murder
2019 Summer of Rockets Aunt Mary Mini-series

Theatre

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Year Title Role Venue Ref.
1950 Ring Round the Moon Gielgud Theatre [51]
1956 Richard II Queen to King Richard Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway [52]
Romeo and Juliet Juliet [53]
1959 Rashomon Wife Music Box Theatre, Broadway [54]
1971 A Doll's House Nora Helmer Playhouse Theater, Broadway [55]
Hedda Gabler Hedda Tesman [56]
1972 Vivat! Vivat Regina! Mary Queen of Scots Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway [57]
1974 A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois Piccadilly Theatre [58]
1976 The Innocents Miss Bolton Morosco Theatre, Broadway [59]
1998 Electra Clytemnestra Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway [60]

Awards and honours

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Bloom was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[61][62]

Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1952 BAFTA Award Most Promising Newcomer Limelight Won [63]
1982 Best Actress Brideshead Revisited Nominated [64]
1986 Shadowlands Won [65]
1982 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special Brideshead Revisited Nominated [66]
1979 Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album Wuthering Heights Nominated [67]
1971 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Performance Hedda Gabler / A Doll's House Won [68]
1999 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play Electra Nominated

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