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Claire Bloom

Acting

Born February 15, 1931 · Finchley, Middlesex, England, UK

Also known as Patricia Claire Blume · Клэр Блум

Biography

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.

Awards & recognition

  • BAFTA AwardMost Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles · 1953
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Evening Standard Theatre AwardBest Actress
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actress in a Play · 1999 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Brideshead Revisited

1981as Teresa Flyte

Limelight

1952as Thereza 'Terry' Ambrose

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004as Aunt Ada

The King's Speech

2010as Queen Mary

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001as Marion Whitney

Midsomer Murders

1997as Matilda Stowe

Promises to Keep

1985as Sally

Yesterday's Children

2000as Maggie

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989as Miriam Rosenthal

Shadowlands

1985as Joy Gresham

Jericho

2005as Marie Hewitt

New Tricks

2004as Helen Brownlow

80,000 Suspects

1963as Julie Monks

Richard III

1955as The Lady Anne

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1965as Nancy 'Nan' Perry

The Haunting

1963as Theodora

The Man Between

1953as Suzanne Mallison

Love and Murder

2000as Nina Love

Clash of the Titans

1981as Hera

The Dick Cavett Show

1968as Self - Guest

Mighty Aphrodite

1995as Amanda's Mother

Look Back in Anger

1959as Helena Charles

Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna

as Czarina Alexandra

Summer of Rockets

2019as Aunt Mary

Separate Tables

1983as Miss Cooper

The Brothers Karamazov

1958as Katya

Islands in the Stream

1977as Audrey

The Buccaneer

1958as Bonnie Brown

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Beauty

What the Deaf Man Heard

1997as Mrs. Tynan

Déjà Vu

1985as Eleanor Harvey

Hamlet

1980as Gertrude

Daylight

1996as Eleanor Trilling

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

1988as Lady Delamere

The Outrage

1964as Wife

Alexander the Great

1956as Barsine

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1962as Dorothea Grimm

The Camomile Lawn

1992as Sophy (older)

Miss Dalí

2018as Maggie

And While We Were Here

2012as Grandma Eves

The Ten Commandments

as Rani

Max Rose

2016as Eva Rose

Imagining Argentina

2003as Sara Sternberg

A Doll's House

1973as Nora Helmer

The Illustrated Man

1969as Felicia

The Lady and the Highwayman

1988as Lady Emma Darlington

The Chapman Report

1962as Naomi Shields

A Village Affair

1995as Cecily Jordon

Hold the Dream

as Edwina, Lady Dunvale

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

1995as Liz Stringer