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Claire Bloom is a British female actor, stage actor, film actor, and autobiographer. Born in Finchley on February 15, 1931, she holds United Kingdom citizenship. Her professional career spanned from 1948 to 2020. She received an education at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Bloom has been married to Philip Roth and Rod Steiger. She has a sibling named John Bloom. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Checkmate Run Lib/E
- Dragons in Pieces Lib/E
- Gather Her Round Lib/E
- The Wrecking Crew Lib/E
- Frontera Lib/E
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK
Patricia Claire Bloom (born February 15, 1931) is a retired English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy award as well as nominations for 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.
Known for
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius — Self2025
- Remembers… — Self2022
- Chaplin vs the FBI — Self2019
- Summer of Rockets — Aunt Mary2019
- Miss Dalí — Maggie2018
- Max Rose — Eva Rose2016
- Chaplin - The Legend of the Century — Self2014
- The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 — Rosa Cristofori2012
- And While We Were Here — Grandma Eves2012
- The King's Speech — Queen Mary2010
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 295
- Total plays
- 993
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Claire+Bloom">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 9
- Cited by
- 25
Research areas
Most cited works
- Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir1996 · 11 cit
- Success with wanderers1991 · 8 cit
- Expression of Retinoblastoma Protein in Breast Cancer Metastases to Sentinel Nodes2006 · 6 cit
- Richard III. DVD1955 · 0 cit
- Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress1984 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,904x
- Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures
· 2000 · cited 10,942x
- Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*
· 2016 · cited 10,648x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Patricia Claire Blume , ( 1931-02-15 ) 15 February 1931 (age 95) , Finchley , Middlesex , England
- Education
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama , Central School of Speech and Drama
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1946–present
- Spouses
- Rod Steiger ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1969 ) Hillard Elkins ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 ) Philip Roth ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 )
- Children
- Anna Steiger
- Relatives
- John Bloom (brother)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Patricia Claire Bloom (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 an Emmy award as well as nominations for 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).
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