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Claire Bloom: Roles
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Shakespearean actress Claire Bloom (center) poses with Stephen F. Austin State University theatre students following a question-and-answer session she held with them prior to her recent performance of “Shakespeare’s Women” on the SFA campus. Bloom discussed her stage and film career, memorable roles and experiences, current projects and motivation for remaining active in theatre.
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Bloom has appeared in several films, series and serials for television, perhaps the most memorable of which was her portrayal of Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited (1981). Other roles included two prominent BBC Television productions for director Rudolph Cartier; co-starring with Sean Connery in Anna Karenina (1961), and playing Cathy in Wuthering Heights with Keith Michell as Heathcliffe (1962).[1] She ... appeared as First Lady Edith Wilson in Backstairs at the White House (1979); as Joy Gresham, the wife of C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands (1985), and as the older Sophy in the 1992 miniseries The Camomile Lawn on Britain's Channel 4. Her most recent appearance in a miniseries was in the 2006 version of The Ten Commandments.
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"Acting is a peculiar thing," reflects Bloom, "because when you are young enough to play these roles, you don't have enough understanding about sexual power. So that by the time you're really ready to do this you're far too old to portray convincingly a young girl. So you substitute understanding and intelligence for the fervour and passion of youth."
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