Claire Bloom

Patricia Claire Bloom (born February 15, 1931) is a retired English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

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Known For

Midsomer Murders

1997 • as Matilda Stowe

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001 • as Marion Whitney

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 • as Self

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 • as Aunt Ada

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950 • as Queen Victoria

Tony Awards

1956 • as Self - Presenter

Filmography

2025

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

as Self

Movie - Released: 11/10/2025

2022

Remembers…

as Self

TV - Released: 6/29/2022

2019

Chaplin vs the FBI

as Self

Movie - Released: 12/5/2019

Summer of Rockets

as Aunt Mary

TV - Released: 5/22/2019

2018

Miss Dalí

as Maggie

Movie - Released: 4/6/2018

2016

Max Rose

as Eva Rose

Movie - Released: 9/2/2016

2014

Chaplin - The Legend of the Century

as Self

Movie - Released: 5/13/2014

2012

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

as Rosa Cristofori

Movie - Released: 10/11/2012

And While We Were Here

as Grandma Eves

Movie - Released: 4/21/2012

2010

The King's Speech

as Queen Mary

Movie - Released: 11/26/2010

2008

Fiona's Story

as Helen

Movie - Released: 8/31/2008

House of Life: A Jewish Cemetary in Prague

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 1/1/2008

2006

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring Renee Fleming and Claire Bloom

as Self

Movie - Released: 10/12/2006

The Chatterley Affair

as Older Helena

Movie - Released: 3/20/2006

Kalamazoo?

as Eleanor

Movie - Released: 4/7/2006

The Ten Commandments

as Rani

TV - Released: 4/10/2006

2005

Movie

2005 - Renee Fleming & Claire Bloom

as Self

Movie - Released: 12/2/2005

Jericho

as Marie Hewitt

TV - Released: 10/16/2005

2004

Daniel and the Superdogs

as Claire Martin

Movie - Released: 10/27/2004

New Tricks

as Helen Brownlow

TV - Released: 1/1/2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Aunt Ada

TV - Released: 12/12/2004

2003

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

as Self

Movie - Released: 5/1/2003

Chaplin Today: Limelight

as Self

Movie - Released: 7/1/2003

Imagining Argentina

as Sara Sternberg

Movie - Released: 9/13/2003

2002

The Book of Eve

as Eva Smallwood

Movie - Released: 9/1/2002

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Marion Whitney

TV - Released: 9/30/2001

2000

Yesterday's Children

as Maggie

Movie - Released: 10/15/2000

On Cukor

as Self

Movie - Released: 11/22/2000

Love and Murder

as Nina Love

Movie - Released: 4/16/2000

1999

Shakespeare's Women and Claire Bloom

as self

Movie - Released: 1/1/1999

The Lady in Question

as Emma Sachs

Movie - Released: 12/12/1999

1998

Wrestling with Alligators

as Lulu Fraker

Movie - Released: 1/18/1998

Imogen's Face

as Elinor

Movie - Released: 7/2/1998

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

as Self

Movie - Released: 5/10/1998

1997

What the Deaf Man Heard

as Mrs. Tynan

Movie - Released: 11/23/1997

Midsomer Murders

as Matilda Stowe

TV - Released: 3/23/1997

1996

Daylight

as Eleanor Trilling

Movie - Released: 12/6/1996

1995

Mighty Aphrodite

as Amanda's Mother

Movie - Released: 9/13/1995

A Village Affair

as Cecily Jordon

Movie - Released: 4/17/1995

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

as Liz Stringer

Movie - Released: 6/2/1995

1994

Movie

Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 5/13/1994

1993

It's Nothing Personal

as Evelyn Whitloff

Movie - Released: 2/1/1993

Remember

as Anne Deveraux Rawlings

Movie - Released: 10/24/1993

1992

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

as Marina Gregg

Movie - Released: 12/27/1992

The Camomile Lawn

as Sophy (older)

TV - Released: 3/5/1992

Love at First Sight

as Maria Cruz

TV - Released: 2/12/1992

1991

The Princess and the Goblin

as Great Great Grandmother Irene (voice)

Movie - Released: 6/3/1991

1990

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

as Self

Movie - Released: 10/22/1990

1989

Crimes and Misdemeanors

as Miriam Rosenthal

Movie - Released: 10/13/1989

1988

The Lady and the Highwayman

as Lady Emma Darlington

Movie - Released: 12/3/1988

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

as Lady Delamere

Movie - Released: 5/15/1988

1987

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

as Alice

Movie - Released: 10/30/1987

Queenie

as Vicky Kelley

TV - Released: 5/10/1987

Intimate Contact

as Ruth Gregory

TV - Released: 10/5/1987

Hold the Dream

as Edwina, Lady Dunvale

TV - Released: 5/5/1987

1986

Liberty

as Madame Bartholdi

Movie - Released: 6/23/1986

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

as Jocasta

Movie - Released: 9/16/1986

Ann and Debbie

as Debbie

Movie - Released: 1/1/1986

Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna

as Czarina Alexandra

TV - Released: 12/7/1986

1985

Florence Nightingale

as Fanny Nightingale

Movie - Released: 4/7/1985

Déjà Vu

as Eleanor Harvey

Movie - Released: 5/1/1985

Shadowlands

as Joy Gresham

Movie - Released: 6/15/1985

Movie

Time and the Conways

as Mrs Conway

Movie - Released: 4/7/1985

Promises to Keep

as Sally

Movie - Released: 10/15/1985

Time for Murder

as Lady Barbara Penwarden

TV - Released: 11/9/1985

1984

The Life and Death of King John

as Constance

Movie - Released: 11/24/1984

Ellis Island

as Rebecca Weiler

TV - Released: 11/11/1984

1983

Separate Tables

as Miss Cooper

Movie - Released: 1/1/1983

The Ghost Writer

as Hope Lonoff

Movie - Released: 11/12/1983

Cymbeline

as Queen

Movie - Released: 7/10/1983

1981

Clash of the Titans

as Hera

Movie - Released: 6/12/1981

Movie

Beauty and the Beast

as Beauty (voice)

Movie - Released: 3/31/1981

Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast

as Beauty (voice)

Movie - Released: 9/4/1981

Brideshead Revisited

as Teresa Flyte

TV - Released: 10/12/1981

1980

Hamlet

as Gertrude

Movie - Released: 5/25/1980

1979

Henry VIII

as Katharine of Aragon

Movie - Released: 2/25/1979

Backstairs at the White House

as Edith Galt Wilson

TV - Released: 1/29/1979

1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare

as Gertrude

TV - Released: 12/3/1978

1977

Islands in the Stream

as Audrey

Movie - Released: 3/9/1977

1973

A Doll's House

as Nora Helmer

Movie - Released: 4/10/1973

Movie

The Going Up of David Lev

as Hannah

Movie - Released: 4/25/1973

Wessex Tales

as Ella Marchmill

TV - Released: 11/7/1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as Sheila Pennell

TV - Released: 9/1/1973

1971

A Severed Head

as Honor Klein

Movie - Released: 1/21/1971

Red Sky at Morning

as Ann Arnold

Movie - Released: 5/12/1971

1969

The Illustrated Man

as Felicia

Movie - Released: 3/26/1969

3 Into 2 Won't Go

as Frances Howard

Movie - Released: 7/2/1969

Tattooed Steiger

as Herself

Movie - Released: 1/1/1969

1968

Charly

as Alice Kinian

Movie - Released: 9/23/1968

The Triumph of Death

as Amelia Lornan

Movie - Released: 5/10/1968

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

TV - Released: 6/6/1968

Late Night Horror

as Amelia Lornan

TV - Released: 4/19/1968

1967

Soldier in Love

as Queen Anne

Movie - Released: 4/26/1967

Omnibus

as Self

TV - Released: 10/13/1967

1965

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

as Nancy 'Nan' Perry

Movie - Released: 12/16/1965

1964

The Outrage

as Wife

Movie - Released: 10/7/1964

High Infidelity

as Laura

Movie - Released: 1/22/1964

1963

The Haunting

as Theodora

Movie - Released: 3/28/1963

The Teacher from Vigevano

as Ada

Movie - Released: 12/24/1963

80,000 Suspects

as Julie Monks

Movie - Released: 8/15/1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

TV - Released: 10/4/1963

1962

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

as Dorothea Grimm

Movie - Released: 8/7/1962

The Chapman Report

as Naomi Shields

Movie - Released: 10/5/1962

Wuthering Heights

as Catherine

Movie - Released: 5/10/1962

1961

Anna Karenina

as Anna Karenina

Movie - Released: 11/3/1961

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

TV - Released: 12/11/1961

1960

Brainwashed

as Irene Andreny

Movie - Released: 9/2/1960

Checkmate

as Gina Burton

TV - Released: 9/17/1960

1959

Look Back in Anger

as Helena Charles

Movie - Released: 9/15/1959

1958

The Buccaneer

as Bonnie Brown

Movie - Released: 12/11/1958

The Brothers Karamazov

as Katya

Movie - Released: 2/20/1958

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Beauty

TV - Released: 1/12/1958

1957

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

as Self

TV - Released: 7/29/1957

1956

Alexander the Great

as Barsine

Movie - Released: 3/28/1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV - Released: 4/1/1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV - Released: 4/1/1956

1955

Richard III

as The Lady Anne

Movie - Released: 12/13/1955

1954

Movie

Tonight in Britain

as Self

Movie - Released: 1/1/1954

1953

The Man Between

as Suzanne Mallison

Movie - Released: 10/19/1953

Innocents in Paris

as Susan Robbins

Movie - Released: 7/22/1953

The Oscars

as Self

TV - Released: 3/19/1953

1952

Limelight

as Thereza 'Terry' Ambrose

Movie - Released: 10/16/1952

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Anne

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Mrs. Tynan

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Queen Victoria

TV - Released: 1/30/1950

Sunday Night Theatre

as Martine

TV - Released: 1/1/1950

1948

The Blind Goddess

as Mary Dearing

Movie - Released: 9/14/1948