Claire Bloom Biography

original name Claire Blume

(1931 - )

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  • Films
  • 1952 Limelight
  • 1953 The Man Between
  • 1955 Richard III
  • 1956 Alexander The Great
  • 1958 The Brothers Karamazov
  • 1958 The Buccaneer
  • 1959 Look Back in Anger
  • 1962 The Chapman Report
  • 1963 The Haunting
  • 1963 Eighty Thousand Suspects
  • 1964 The Outrage
  • 1966 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  • 1968 Charly
  • 1969 Three Into Two Won't Go
  • 1970 A Severed Head
  • 1970 Red Sky at Morning
  • 1977 Islands in the Stream
  • 1981 The Clash of the Titans
  • 1987 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
  • 1990 Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • 1995 Mighty Aphrodite
  • 1996 Daylight
  • 1999 Wrestling with Alligators
  • 2006 Kalamazoo?
  • Television
  • 1975 A Legacy
  • 1981 Brideshead Revisited
  • 1983 The Ghost Writer
  • 1985 Shadowlands
  • 1985 Time and the Conways
  • 1986 Oedipus the King
  • 1986 The Belle of Amherst
  • 1987 Intimate Contact
  • 1988 Shadow on the Sun
  • 1992 The Camomile Lawn
  • 1992 The Mirror Crack'd
  • 1993 Remember
  • 1994 A Village Affair
  • 1997 Family Money
  • 1998 Imogen's Face
  • BBC Television Shakespeare
  • 1979 Henry VIII
  • 1980 Hamlet
  • 1983 Cymbeline
  • 1983 King John
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(born February 15, 1931, London) English dramatic actress noted for her moving portrayals of Shakespearean heroines. She also played on stage, in television, and in motion pictures.

She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. At age 14 she tried out for the part of Juliet with the company of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon; in 1948 at Stratford she was cast as Ophelia in Hamlet, Blanche in King John, and Perdita in A Winter's Tale. She won praise for her early motion-picture role as a ballet dancer, playing opposite Charles Chaplin in the film Limelight (1952). She performed with the Old Vic company (1952–53) and subsequently successfully combined a stage career with films. Some of her more notable movies include Richard III (1955), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965), Charly (1968), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). She continued to star in films and on television into the 21st century. An autobiography, Limelight and After, appeared in 1982.


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