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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 Griewski). North London is that part of London which is north of the River Thames. ... Finchley is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, London, England. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...

Career

After training at the Guildhall School and the Central School of Speech and Drama, Bloom made her debut on BBC radio programmes. She made her stage debut in 1946, when she was 15, with the Oxford Repertory Theatre. Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in the City of London, UK. The first Guildhall School was housed in an old warehouse in Aldermanbury, but these premises soon proved too small. ... The Central School of Speech and Drama is a United Kingdom government funded higher education college in London. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...

Stage roles

Her London stage debut was in 1947 in the Christopher Fry play The Lady's Not For Burning; the following year, she received great acclaim for her portrayal of Ophelia in Hamlet, the first of many works by William Shakespeare that Bloom would appear in. Christopher Fry (born December 12, 1907; died June 30, 2005) was an English playwright. ... The third quarto of Hamlet (1605); a straight reprint of the 2nd quarto (1604) The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

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, and Bloom's favorite role, that of Blanche in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. Bloom has also performed in a one woman show that included monologues from several of her stage performances. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width {{{WidthUS}}} miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Tennessee Williams (1965) Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... A Streetcar Named Desire is a famous American play written by Tennessee Williams. ...

Film roles

Bloom's first film role was in 1948, for the film The Blind Goddess. She was chosen by Charlie Chaplin in 1952 to appear in his film Limelight, which catapulted Bloom to stardom, and remains one of her most memorable roles. The Blind Goddess is a 1926 film by Victor Fleming. ... For other people named Chaplin, see Chaplin (disambiguation). ... Limelight is a 1952 film written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with a guest appearance by Buster Keaton. ...

She was subsequently featured in a number of "costume" roles in films sych as Alexander The Great, The Brothers Karamazov, The Buccaneer, and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Bloom also appeared in Laurence Olivier's Richard III, Ibsen's A Doll's House, as well as the films The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Look Back In Anger, both with Richard Burton. Alexander the Great was a 1956 movie starring Richard Burton, who played as Alexander the Great. ... For other uses, see The Brothers Karamazov (disambiguation). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin, who had a long career throughout his life with movies such as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) and the television series Knots Landing in the late 1970s and early 1990s. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeares play Richard III. The film also contains elements of Shakespeares Henry VI, part 3. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Dolls House A Dolls House (original Norwegian title: Et dukkehjem) is a 1879 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. ... The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an espionage novel by John le Carré, which tells the story of Alec Lemas, a British spy, who resigns from the Circus (as the British Secret Service is known in John le Carrés books) and defects to East Germany. ... Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man, his middle-class, impassive wife, her snooty best friend and an amiable Welsh lodger. ... Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ...

In the 1960s she began to play more contemporary roles, including an unhinged housewife in The Chapman Report, a psychiatrist in the Oscar winning film Charly, and a lesbian in The Haunting. She also appeared in the 1989 Woody Allen film Crimes and Misdemeanors. Her most recent appearance in a Hollywood film was in the 1996 Sylvester Stallone film Daylight. Categories: Movie stubs | 1968 films | Science fiction films | Best Actor Oscar (film) ... The Haunting is a 1963 horror film directed by Robert Wise and adapted by Nelson Gidding from the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. ... Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... Crimes and Misdemeanors is a film written and directed by Woody Allen. ... ... Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American Academy Award-nominated film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Daylight is an action film, released on Friday, December 6, 1996, starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by Rob Cohen. ...

Television

Bloom has appeared in several films, series and miniseries for television, including playing First Lady Edith Wilson in Backstairs at the White House.She also appeared as Cathy in Wuthering Heights with Keith Michell as Heathcliffe. She also appeared as Lady Marchmain Brideshead Revisited, Shadowlands, and The Camomile Lawn. Her most recent appearance in a miniseries was in the 2006 version of The Ten Commandments. White House portrait Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (October 15, 1872–December 28, 1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. ... Television miniseries from 1979. ... Brideshead Revisited, the Sacred and Profane Memories of Capt. ... Shadowlands is a play, TV drama and film written by William Nicholson. ... Produced by Channel 4 Television Corporation in 1992 this was a vivid and lively television drama of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins. ... The Ten Commandments was a 2006 television mini-series depicting the biblical story of Moses and the the Exodus. ...

On continuing television series, she has appeared on the New York-based Law & Order: Criminal Intent. From 1991 to 1993, she portrayed villainess Orlena Grimaldi on the daytime drama As The World Turns. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a United States crime drama television series that began in 2001. ... As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera, airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm. ...

Personal life and memoirs

Bloom was married three times. Her first marriage was in 1959 to actor Rod Steiger, whom she had met when they both performed in the play Rashomon. Their daughter, opera singer Anna Steiger, was born in 1960. Steiger and Bloom divorced in 1969. Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor. ...

In that same year, Bloom married producer Hillard Elkins. The marriage lasted three years and the couple divorced in 1972. Silly old person. ...

Bloom's third marriage was to writer Philip Roth in 1990; the couple divorced in 1995. Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. ...

Bloom wrote two memoirs about her life and career. The first, Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress, was released in 1982 and was an in-depth look at her career and the film and stage roles she had portrayed.

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 marriages but her romantic relationships with Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier. Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ...

The book created a stir when Bloom detailed the highly complicated relationship between her and Philip Roth during their marriage. The details Bloom shared were unflattering to Roth, and created a controversy regarding the true nature of their relationship. The character of Eve Frame in Roth's 1998 novel I Married a Communist is clearly intended as a retort. In the book, Frame is constantly bullied by her daughter, a professional harpist, and their relationship slowly ruins Frame's marriage to her third husband. She then destroys the reputation of her former husband by publishing her memoirs accusing him of being a communist spy. Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. ... I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, known as Iron Rinn. ...

External link

• Claire Bloom at the Internet Movie Database