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Name: Claire Bloom
Field:
Actor
Productions:
Shakespeare's Characters- Claire Bloom
Jane Eyre- Claire Bloom
Biography: Claire Bloom, acclaimed British actress, brings her range of one woman shows to UK audiences from a successful US tour.
What the critic’s say
‘Ms Bloom gave transfixing, fully characterised readings, consistently rich in colour and texture’ The New York Times
‘Claire Bloom’s show is elegantly intimate, heartbreakingly beautiful … she shows remarkable versatility’ The Boston Globe
Born in the North London suburb of Finchley. Bloom attended Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art before making her stage debut in 1946.
She made her film debut in The Blind Goddess (1948). Her first London appearance was in John Gielgud's production of The Lady's Not for Burning, opposite Richard Burton. On television she has appeared in Brideshead Revisited, The Ghost Writer, Shadowlands and The Camomile Lawn
She received international acclaim when cast as a ballerina in her second film, Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (1952). This success led to her being offered another major film role as Lady Anne in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1954). Bloom’s success on the stage continued, but she was next cast opposite her friend Richard Burton in Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger (1958).
In more recent years she appeared in fine supporting roles in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995). .
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