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Claire Bloom: New York
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Award-winning legend of stage, screen and television, Claire Bloom made her first stage appearance at the age of 16. Her most notable stage roles at the Old Vic have included Juliet, Orphelia, Miranda, and Cordelia; in London she has appeared in Ivanov, A Doll's House, and A Streetcar Named Desire. In New York she has had leading roles in Hedda Gabler, Rashomon, Vivat! Vivat! Regina! and the stage version of Henry James' A Turn of the Screw.
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Synopsis: Laurie Weltz directed this period drama, set in 1959 at a seaside New Jersey town where former silent-screen actress Lulu Fraker (Claire Bloom) runs Lulu's Look Out, a women's rooming house. Teen Maddy Hawkins (Aleksa Palladino of Manny & Lo), employed at a local garage, feels abandoned after theRead More
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In New York, Ms. Bloom has been seen in leading roles in “A Doll’s House,” “Hedda Gabler,” “Rashomon,” “Vivat! Vivat! Regina!,” the stage version of Henry James’ “Turn of the Screw” and, most recently, “Electra” (as Clytemnestra), a performance that earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nomination. Ms. Bloom ... appeared as Katherine of Aragon in “Henry VIII,” as Queen Gertrude in “Hamlet,” as Lady Constance in “King John,” and as the Queen in “Cymbeline” for the BBC Shakespeare television series. Her many other television appearances include “Brideshead Revisited,” in which she and Laurence Olivier played Lord and Lady Marchmain, Philip Roth’s “The Ghost Writer,” and “Shadowlands,” for which she won Britain’s BAFTA Award for the best television actress of the year. Recent television appearances include “The Lady in Question,” “The Camomile Lawn,” “The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side,” “Village Affairs,” “Family Money,” and “What the Deaf Man Heard.”
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In 1969 Bloom was divorced from Steiger, and remarried Hillard Elkins the same year. By 1979, her marriage to Elkins was over. In more recent years she appeared in fine supporting roles in Stephen Frears Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995). In 1990, she married author Philip Roth, but the marriage only lasted five years. Throughout her successful career Bloom has played many of Shakespearian women, performing in the Old Vic, London’s West End and New York. On television she has appeared in Brideshead Revisited, The Ghost Writer, Shadowlands and The Camomile Lawn.
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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 ... performed in a one woman show that included monologues from several of her stage performances.
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The original series was filmed at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, starring Claire Bloom and Sir Laurence Olivier. The role of Charles Ryder, Sebastian’s very romantic school chum who was infatuated but evidently straight was played by Jeremy Irons and made him a star.
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