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Claire Bloom Biography

original name Claire Blume

(1931 - )

Related Works

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.