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Claire Bloom
Birth at
15 February 1931
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Dark-haired, graceful Claire Bloom has long retained the title of one of the most refined, refined actresses of British cinema. Her full name is Patricia Claire Bloom (or Blume, the name her father used). She was born on February 15, 1931 in the London suburb of Finchley. Since childhood, her main hobbies were theater and classical literature and in 1945, when she was 14 years old, she entered the Central School of Diction and Dramatic Art. Soon she was offered a job at the BBC, where she began
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Dark-haired, graceful Claire Bloom has long retained the title of one of the most refined, refined actresses of British cinema. Her full name is Patricia Claire Bloom (or Blume, the name her father used). She was born on February 15, 1931 in the London suburb of Finchley. Since childhood, her main hobbies were theater and classical literature and in 1945, when she was 14 years old, she entered the Central School of Diction and Dramatic Art. Soon she was offered a job at the BBC, where she began to participate in various radio plays and broadcasts. In 1946, she made her theatre debut in Oxford, and a year later she played Ophelia in Hamlet in a production of Stradfor Theatre. She played on the same stage with the rising stars of the English theater Richard Barton and Paul Scofield.
It was with Barton, with whom she for many years had a strong friendship, she achieved her first major success in the play "She should not be burned" by Christopher Fry. The Broadway production of this performance attracted the attention of Charles Chaplin, who invited Bloom to play the role of ballerina Terry in his film "Ramp Lights" (1952). This role was her first notable work in cinema (before that she starred in Harold French’s not very successful drama The Blind Goddess of Justice in 1948). In 1955, she played Lady Anna in Richard III by Laurence Olivier, who was personally involved in the selection of actors for his Shakespearean adaptations. This was followed by several roles in costume films Alexander the Great (1956, Robert Rossen), The Brothers Karamazov (1958, Richard Brooks), Pirates (1958, Anthony Quinn), but her most significant film of this period was Tony Richardson's social drama Look Back in Anger (1958), in which she was paired with her old friend Richard Barton. In 1959, Bloom married actor Rod Steiger, with whom she played in the play Rasemon. The following year, their daughter Anna was born. Subsequently, she was married to producer Hillard Elkins (from 1969 to 1972) and writer and screenwriter Philip Roth (from 1990 to 1995).
Despite the fact that she strengthened the fame of theatrical actress of the classical repertoire, in the movie Bloom repeatedly played in films on modern themes, in which she played a variety of, sometimes quite psychological roles, such as, for example, sexually obsessed housewife Naomi Shields in Chapman's Report (1962, dir. George Kincordy), in the film Elizabeth's repsy (1963), a specialist in "Elikranny's" with "Elikranny's repsy" (1963). She also played a number of memorable supporting roles in "Sammy and Rosie Go to Bed" (1987) with Stephen Frears, and Woody Allen in "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989) and "The Great Aphrodite" (1995).
Throughout her creative career, Claire Bloom never left the stage - she played in the Old Vic, theaters in London's West End and New York and over many years of work in the theater earned a reputation as one of the best performers of female roles in Shakespeare plays. In 1999, the video released the documentary "Shakespeare women and Claire Bloom", composed of archival fragments of the performances of the actress.
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