Claire Bloom
Year Title Role
1948 The Blind Goddess Mary Dearing
1952 The King and the Mockingbird The Shepherdess ( English version )
1952 Limelight Thereza
1953 Innocents in Paris Susan
1953 The Man Between Susanne Mallison
1955 Richard III Lady Anne
1956 Alexander the Great Barsine
1958 The Brothers Karamazov Katya
1958 The Buccaneer Bonnie Brown
1959 Look Back in Anger Helena Charles
1960 Brainwashed Irene Andreny
1962 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Dorothea Grimm
1962 The Chapman Report Naomi Shields
1963 80,000 Suspects Julie Monks
1963 The Haunting Theodora
1963 Il maestro di Vigevano Ada
1964 Alta infedeltà Laura
1964 The Outrage Wife
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Nan Perry
1968 Charly Alice Kinnian
Filmography
Patricia Claire Blume, CBE (born 15 February 1931), better known by her stage name Claire Bloom, is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is known for leading roles in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll's House, and Long Day's Journey into Night, and has starred in nearly sixty films. After a childhood in England and the US, Bloom studied drama. She debuted on the London stage when she was sixteen and soon took roles in various Shakespeare plays. They included Hamlet, in which she played Ophelia alongside Richard Burton. For her Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, critic Kenneth Tynan stated it was the best Juliet I've ever seen. After she starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, its playwright, Tennessee Williams, stated, I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom. In 1952, Bloom was discovered by Hollywood film star Charlie Chaplin to co-star alongside him in Limelight. During her film career, she starred alongside numerous major actors, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Yul Brynner, George C. Scott, James Mason, Paul Newman, Cliff Robertson, Anthony Hopkins and Rod Steiger. In 2010, Bloom played the role of Queen Mary in the British film, The King's Speech. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.