Full Name | Claire Bloom |
Net Worth | $1.2 Million |
Date Of Birth | February 15, 1931 |
Place Of Birth | Finchley, London, England, UK |
Height | 1.65 m |
Occupation | Actress |
Profession | Actor |
Education | Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Badminton School |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Philip Roth, Hillard Elkins, Rod Steiger |
Children | Anna Steiger |
Parents | Edward Max Blume, Elizabeth Grew |
Siblings | John Bloom |
Nicknames | Claire Bloom, Bloom, Claire |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0001954 |
Awards | British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Other Awards |
Nominations | Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie |
Movies | Limelight, The Haunting, Clash of the Titans, The King's Speech, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Alexander the Great, Charly, The Brothers Karamazov, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Buccaneer, Look Back in Anger, Daylight, Richard III, A Doll's House, The Chapman Report, And While We Were Here, The ... |
TV Shows | Brideshead Revisited, Ellis Island, Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, The Ten Commandments, Backstairs at the White House, The Camomile Lawn, Remember, Imogen's Face, Poetry Hall of Fame Collection |
Star Sign | Aquarius |
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1 | She played Helena Bonham Carter in Mighty Aphrodite (1995) and her mother-in-law in The King's Speech (2010). |
2 | She worked with Alec Clunes in Richard III (1955) and his son Martin Clunes in Doc Martin (2004). |
3 | Although she played Derek Jacobi's mother in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980), she is only seven years his senior. |
4 | Won the prestigious London Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her stage performance as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. |
5 | She played Laurence Olivier's wife in both Richard III (1955) and Clash of the Titans (1981). |
6 | Her parents were both from Ashkenazi Jewish families (from Russia and Latvia). Her family's original surname was "Blumenthal". |
7 | Release of her book, "Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir". [1996] |
8 | Currently appearing in "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket London from 29th November 2006 - 27 February 2007. [November 2006] |
9 | Filming a major cameo in The Doctor Who Christmas special [April 2009] |
10 | London SW6, England: Actress [June 2013] |
11 | Starring in "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks" with Billy Zane on the West End in London. [March 2006] |
12 | Release of her book, "Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress". [1982] |
13 | She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. |
14 | According to Richard Burton's biography "And God Created Burton" he was responsible for taking Bloom's virginity in 1949 when they began an affair days after the actor's wedding to Sybil Williams; the affair carried on intermittently until 1957. |
15 | Her second book, "Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir" was published in 1996, and went into greater details about her personal life; she discussed not only her failed marriages, to the dismay of a disgruntled Philip Roth, but her romantic relationships with Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier. |
16 | Was nominated for Broadway's 1999 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Electra." |
17 | An Associate Member of RADA. |
18 | She won rave reviews for her performances as Blanche Du Bois ("A Streetcar Named Desire") in London, Nora ("A Doll's House") on Broadway, and Madame Ranevskaya ("The Cherry Orchard") at Boston's prestigious American Repertory Theatre. |
19 | Daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, by her ex-husband, actor Rod Steiger. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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A Doll's House | 1973/I | | Nora Helmer |
Red Sky at Morning | 1971 | | Ann Arnold |
A Severed Head | 1970 | | Honor Klein |
Three Into Two Won't Go | 1969 | | Frances Howard |
The Illustrated Man | 1969 | | Felicia |
Charly | 1968 | | Alice Kinnian |
Late Night Horror | 1968 | TV Series | Amelia Lornan |
The Bell Telephone Hour | 1967 | TV Series | |
Soldier in Love | 1967 | TV Movie | Queen Anne |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1967 | TV Series | Margaret Chapman |
ITV Play of the Week | 1966 | TV Series | Sasha |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | | Nan Perry |
Camera Three | 1964 | TV Series | |
The Outrage | 1964 | | Wife |
High Infidelity | 1964 | | Laura (segment "Peccato nel pomeriggio") |
Il maestro di Vigevano | 1963 | | Ada |
The Haunting | 1963 | | Theodora |
80,000 Suspects | 1963 | | Julie Monks |
The Chapman Report | 1962 | | Naomi Shields |
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | 1962 | | Dorothea Grimm |
Wuthering Heights | 1962 | TV Movie | Cathy |
Anna Karenina | 1961 | TV Movie | Anna Karenina |
Checkmate | 1961 | TV Series | Gina Burton |
Brainwashed | 1960 | | Irene Andreny |
Playhouse 90 | 1959 | TV Series | Hypatia |
Look Back in Anger | 1959 | | Helena Charles |
The Buccaneer | 1958 | | Bonnie Brown |
The Brothers Karamazov | 1958 | | Katya |
Shirley Temple's Storybook | 1958 | TV Series | Beauty |
Robert Montgomery Presents | 1957 | TV Series | Queen Victoria |
Goodyear Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | Rose |
Producers' Showcase | 1955-1957 | TV Series | Juliet Cleopatra Roxane |
As the World Turns | 1956 | TV Series | Orlena Grimaldi (aka Lena Smythe) #1 (1993-1995) |
Alexander the Great | 1956 | | Barsine |
Richard III | 1955 | | The Lady Anne |
The Man Between | 1953 | | Susanne Mallison |
Innocents in Paris | 1953 | | Susan Robbins |
Limelight | 1952 | | Thereza |
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird | 1952 | | Sheperdess (English version, voice) |
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Martine |
The Marvellous History of St. Bernard | 1952 | TV Movie | Marguerite de Miolans |
The Blind Goddess | 1948 | | Mary Dearing |
Midsomer Murders | 2015 | TV Series | Matilda Stowe |
Doc Martin | 2005-2013 | TV Series | Margaret Ellingham |
Casualty | 2013 | TV Series | Helen Barber |
Max Rose | 2013 | | Eva Rose |
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 | 2012 | | Rosa Cristofori |
And While We Were Here | 2012 | | Grandma Eves |
The King's Speech | 2010 | | Queen Mary |
The Bill | 2010 | TV Series | Jill Peters |
Doctor Who | 2009-2010 | TV Series | The Woman |
Fiona's Story | 2008 | TV Movie | Helen |
New Tricks | 2008 | TV Series | Helen Brownlow |
Trial & Retribution | 2006-2007 | TV Series | Helen Masters |
The Ten Commandments | 2006 | TV Mini-Series | Rani |
Kalamazoo? | 2006 | | Eleanor |
The Chatterley Affair | 2006 | TV Movie | Older Helena |
Agatha Christie's Marple | 2006 | TV Series | Aunt Ada |
Jericho | 2005 | TV Series | Marie Hewitt |
Daniel and the Superdogs | 2004 | | Claire Martin |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | 2004 | TV Series | Marion Whitney |
Imagining Argentina | 2003 | | Sara Sternberg |
The Republic of Love | 2003 | | Onion |
The Book of Eve | 2002 | | Eva Smallwood |
Yesterday's Children | 2000 | TV Movie | Maggie |
Love and Murder | 2000 | TV Movie | Nina Love |
Tales from the Madhouse | 2000 | TV Mini-Series | Pilate's Wife |
The Lady in Question | 1999 | TV Movie | Emma Sachs |
Imogen's Face | 1998 | TV Series | Elinor |
Wrestling with Alligators | 1998 | | Lulu Fraker |
What the Deaf Man Heard | 1997 | TV Movie | Mrs. Tynan |
Family Money | 1997 | TV Series | Fran Pye |
Daylight | 1996 | | Eleanor Trilling |
Mighty Aphrodite | 1995 | | Amanda's Mother |
Mad Dogs and Englishmen | 1995 | | Liz Stringer |
A Village Affair | 1995 | TV Movie | Cecily Jordan |
American Masters | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
The Poetry Hall of Fame | 1993 | TV Movie | Emily Dickinson |
Remember | 1993 | TV Movie | Anne Deveraux Rawlings |
The Age of Innocence | 1993 | uncredited | |
It's Nothing Personal | 1993 | TV Movie | Evelyn Whitloff |
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | 1992 | TV Movie | Marina Gregg |
The Camomile Lawn | 1992 | TV Mini-Series | Sophy (older) |
The Princess and the Goblin | 1991 | | Great Great Grandmother Irene (voice) |
Pas de deux | 1990 | Short | Maria Cruz |
Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | | Miriam Rosenthal |
The Lady and the Highwayman | 1989 | TV Movie | Lady Emma Darlington |
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | 1988 | TV Movie | Lady Delamere |
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | 1987 | | Alice |
Intimate Contact | 1987 | TV Series | Ruth Gregory |
Queenie | 1987 | TV Series | Vicky Kelley |
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna | 1986 | TV Movie | Czarina Alexandra |
Hold the Dream | 1986 | TV Movie | Edwina, Lady Dunvale |
The Theban Plays by Sophocles | 1986 | TV Series | Jocasta |
Liberty | 1986 | TV Movie | Madame Bartholdi |
Ann and Debbie | 1986 | TV Movie | Debbie |
Shadowlands | 1985 | TV Movie | Joy Davidman |
Time and the Conways | 1985 | TV Movie | Mrs. Conway |
Time for Murder | 1985 | TV Series | Lady Penwarden |
Promises to Keep | 1985 | TV Movie | Sally |
Déj | 1985 | | Eleanor Harvey |
Florence Nightingale | 1985 | TV Movie | Fanny Nightingale |
The Life and Death of King John | 1984 | TV Movie | Constance |
Ellis Island | 1984 | TV Mini-Series | Rebecca Weiler |
American Playhouse | 1984 | TV Series | Hope |
Separate Tables | 1983 | TV Movie | Miss Cooper |
Cymbeline | 1982 | TV Movie | Queen |
Brideshead Revisited | 1981 | TV Mini-Series | Lady Marchmain |
Clash of the Titans | 1981 | | Hera |
CBS Library | 1981 | TV Series | Beauty |
Beauty and the Beast | 1981 | Short | Beauty (voice) |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | 1980 | TV Movie | Gertrude |
Henry VIII | 1979 | TV Movie | Katharine of Aragon |
Oresteia | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Athene |
Backstairs at the White House | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Mrs. Edith Galt Wilson |
Islands in the Stream | 1977 | | Audrey |
In Praise of Love | 1976 | TV Movie | Lydia Cruttwell |
A Legacy | 1975 | TV Series | Sarah Merz |
Aquarius | 1974 | TV Series | Stage actress |
Great Mysteries | 1974 | TV Series | Sheila Pennell |
Wessex Tales | 1973 | TV Mini-Series | Ella |
The Going Up of David Lev | 1973 | TV Movie | Hannah |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Un jour, une histoire | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
British Legends of Stage and Screen | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
BBC Look North: Yorkshire and North Midlands | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
Seitenblicke | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Stars of the Silver Screen | 2011 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague | 2009 | Documentary | Narrator |
Mia zoi, mia epohi - Mihalis Kakogiannis | 2008 | Documentary | Herself |
Breakfast | 2006 | TV Series | Herself |
John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship | 2006 | Video | Herself |
The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2004 | 2004 | TV Special | Herself |
CBS News Sunday Morning | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | 2003 | Documentary | Herself - Actress / Star of 'Limelight' |
Chaplin Today: Limelight | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Man-Eaters of India | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
American Masters | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Evening at Pops | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Shakespeare's Women & Claire Bloom | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Herself Juliet Lady Anne ... |
The 53rd Annual Tony Awards | 1999 | TV Special | Herself - Nominee: Best Featured Actress in a Play |
Biography | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Irish in America: Long Journey Home | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary | |
Omnibus | 1974-1997 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon | 1994 | Video documentary | Narrator (voice) |
1071 Fifth Avenue: Frank Lloyd Wright & the Guggenheim Museum | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Hilla Rebay |
Fear and the Muse: The Story of Anna Akhmatova | 1991 | Documentary | Akhmatova (voice) |
The Late Show | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Interviewee |
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Everyman | 1989 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Narrator |
Night of One Hundred Stars | 1980 | TV Movie | Herself |
Hollywood Greats | 1979 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Second Annual West End Theatre Awards | 1977 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
Arena | 1976 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Parkinson | 1973 | TV Series | Herself |
The 26th Annual Tony Awards | 1972 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
The 24th Annual Tony Awards | 1970 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
The David Frost Show | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Herself |
The Joe Namath Show | 1969 | TV Series | Herself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Tattooed Steiger | 1969 | Documentary short | Herself |
The Skitch Henderson Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
The 40th Annual Academy Awards | 1968 | TV Special | Herself - Co-Presenter: Writing Awards |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1968 | TV Series | Herself |
Stars for Israel | 1967 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Match Game | 1967 | TV Series | Herself - Team Captain |
The Merv Griffin Show | 1967 | TV Series | Herself |
Charlie Chaplin: Mennesket, klovnen og instruktøren | 1967 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Eamonn Andrews Show | 1965 | TV Series | Herself |
Girl Talk | 1964 | TV Series | Herself |
Juke Box Jury | 1962 | TV Series | Herself - Panellist |
Festival of Arts | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
The Tonight Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
The Jo Stafford Show | 1961 | TV Series | Herself |
Person to Person | 1959 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z | 1958 | TV Series | Herself |
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