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RECENT CREDITS

Ned Rorem: Word and Music (FILM) Apr. 26, 2008

Jericho 2 (TV) Jun. 3, 2007

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (TV) Jun. 18, 2006

The Ten Commandments (ABC) (TV) Apr. 11, 2006

Kalamazoo? (FILM) Apr. 7, 2006

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HIGHLIGHTS

2000 Led the cast of "Conversations After a Burial", produced in London

1998 Portrayed a former silent movie star running a New Jersey rooming house in Laurie Weltz's "Wrestling With Alligators"

1998 Had stage triumph as Clytemnestra in a staging of Sophocles' "Electra", starring Zoe Wanamaker; garnered Tony nomination

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Kalamazoo? 2006 -Eleanor

Actor

Film

Clash of the Titans 2010 -Hera

Actor

Film

Ned Rorem: Word and Music 2008 -Cast

Actor

Film

Jericho 2 2007 -Marie Hewitt

Actor

By the Pricking of My Thumbs 2006 -Aunt Ada

Actor

The Ten Commandments (ABC) 2006 -Rani

Actor

Part 2 (2006) -Rani

Actor

TV Episode

Part 1 (2006) -Rani

Actor

TV Episode

Evening at Pops: Keith Lockhart's 10th Anniversary Special 2004

Actor

Imagining Argentina 2004 -Mrs. Sternberg

Actor

Film

The Republic of Love 2004 -Onion

Actor

Film

Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2001 -Marion Whitney

Actor

Unrequited (2004) -Marion Whitney

Actor

TV Episode

On Cukor 2000 -Interviewee

Actor

Criminal Instinct: Love & Murder 2000 -Nina Love

Actor

Lady in Question 1999 -Emma Sachs

Actor

Brush Up Your Shakespeare 1999

Actor

Shakespeare's Women With Claire Bloom 1999 -Host

Actor

Imogen's Face 1999 -Elinor

Actor

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life 1998 -Interviewee

Actor

Man-Eaters of India 1997 -Narration

Narrator

What the Deaf Man Heard 1997 -Mrs Tynan

Actor

Wrestling With Alligators 1997 -Lulu Fraker

Actor

Film

Daylight 1996 -Eleanor Trilling

Actor

Film

Mighty Aphrodite 1995 -Amanda's Mother

Actor

Film

The Princess and the Goblin 1994 -of Irene's Great Great Grandmother

Voice

Film

Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed 1994 -Narration

Narrator

Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Remember" 1993 -Anne Devereaux

Actor

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd 1993 -Marina Gregg

Actor

It's Nothing Personal 1993 -Evelyn Whitloff

Actor

The Story of Anna Akhmatova 1991 -of Anna Akhmatova

Voice

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond 1990

Actor

Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 -Miriam Rosenthal

Actor

Film

The Lady and the Highwayman 1989 -Lady Darlington

Actor

The Theban Plays 1988 -Jocasta

Actor

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun 1988 -Lady Florence Delamere

Actor

Intimate Contact 1987 -Ruth Gregory

Actor

Queenie 1987 -Vicky Kelley

Actor

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987 -Alice

Actor

Film

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna 1986 -Czarina Alexandra

Actor

Shadowlands 1986 -Joy Gresham

Actor

Hold the Dream 1986 -Edwina--Lady Dunvale

Actor

Liberty 1986 -Madam Bartholdi

Actor

Promises to Keep 1985 -Sally

Actor

Florence Nightingale 1985 -Fanny Nightingale

Actor

Ellis Island 1984 -Rebecca Weiler

Actor

The Ghost Writer 1984

Actor

Separate Tables 1983 -Miss Cooper

Actor

Brideshead Revisited 1982 -Lady Marchmain

Actor

Henry VIII 1979 -Queen Katharine

Actor

Backstairs at the White House 1979 -Edith Galt Wilson

Actor

Islands in the Stream 1977 -Audrey

Actor

Film

Red Sky at Morning 1971 -Ann Arnold

Actor

Film

The Illustrated Man 1969 -Felicia

Actor

Film

Charly 1968 -Alice Kinian

Actor

Film

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 1965 -Nan Perry

Actor

Film

The Haunting 1963 -Theodora

Actor

Film

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 1962 -Dorothea Grimm

Actor

Film

Look Back in Anger 1959 -Helena Charles

Actor

Film

The Buccaneer 1958 -Bonnie Brown

Actor

Film

The Brothers Karamazov 1958 -Katya

Actor

Film

Playhouse 90 1956 -Performer

Actor

Alexander the Great 1956 -Barsine

Actor

Film

Caesar and Cleopatra 1956 -Cleopatra

Actor

Richard III 1955 -Lady Anne

Actor

Film

The Chapman Report 1952 -Naomi

Actor

Film

Limelight 1952 -Terry

Actor

Film

Mad Dogs and Englishmen -Liz Stringer

Actor

Film

The Outrage -Wife

Actor

Film

Book of Eve -Eva Smallwood

Actor

Film

Deja Vu -Eleanor Harvey

Actor

Film

A Doll's House -Nora Helmer

Actor

Film

A Severed Head -Honor Klein

Actor

Film

A Village Affair

Actor

Film

Chicago Hope

Associate Producer, Post-Production Coordinator, Post-Production Supervisor

Three Into Two Won't Go -Frances

Actor

Film

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Highlights

2000 Led the cast of "Conversations After a Burial", produced in London

1998 Portrayed a former silent movie star running a New Jersey rooming house in Laurie Weltz's "Wrestling With Alligators"

1998 Had stage triumph as Clytemnestra in a staging of Sophocles' "Electra", starring Zoe Wanamaker; garnered Tony nomination

1997 Was underutilized as the agreeably disagreeable widow Tynan in CBS' "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation "What the Deaf Man Heard"

1996 Played Mary Tyrone as an angry anything-but-a-victim in American Repertory Theatre presentation of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night"

1996 Acted the part of upper-class society doyenne Eleanor Trilling in "Daylight", starrring Sylvester Stallone

1995 Portrayed chorus role in Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite"

1995 Appeared briefly as Orlena Grimaldi on the CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns"

1989 First collaboration with Woody Allen, playing Miriam Rosenthal, wife of Judah (Martin Landau) in "Crimes and Misdemeanors"

1988 Reteamed with director Tony Richardson for CBS miniseries "Beryl Markham: A Shadow in the Sun"

1985 Co-starred in British TV production of "Shadowlands" (shown in USA in 1986 on PBS and again in 1989 on A&E)

1984 Acted in "American Playhouse" (PBS) adaptation of then-companion Philip Roth's "The Ghostwriter"

1982 Appeared as Lady Marchmain opposite Olivier in the British miniseries "Brideshead Revisited" (shown in the USA on PBS); garnered an Emmy nomination

1981 Played Hera to Olivier's Zeus in "Clash of the Titans"

1976 Last Broadway appearance for 22 years, "The Innocents", an adaptation of Henry James' "Turn of the Screw" directed by Harold Pinter; a scathing review by Clive Barnes doomed it to a short run of 10 da

1974 Acted the part of Blanche DuBois in London revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"

1973 Essayed the role of Nora opposite Anthony Hopkins in stagy film of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"; Bloom also played the role several times on stage

1972 Returned to Broadway as Mary, Quenn of Scots in "Vivat! Vivat! Regina!"

1969 Starred opposite husband Rod Steiger in two films, "Three Into Two Won't Go" and "The Illustrated Man"

1968 Portrayed sympathetic caseworker who becomes attatched to "Charly" (Cliff Robertson); role earned Robertson the Best Actor Oscar

1965 Reteamed with Burton for Martin Ritt's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"

1963 Exhibited lesbian tendencies and an extraordinary sense of ESP in Robert Wise's "The Haunting"

1959 Acted opposite Burton in Tony Richardson's film version of "Look Back in Anger"

1959 Co-starred with soon-to-be husband Rod Steiger in Broadway's "Rashomon"

1956 First film with Burton, "Alexander the Great"

1956 Broadway debut, "Romeo and Juliet"; appeared with Old Vic Company

1956 American TV debut, Roxanne opposite Jose Ferrer's "Cyrano de Bergerac" for "Producers Showcase" (NBC)

1955 Played Lady Anne to Laurence Olivier's "Richard III"

1952 Acted opposite Chaplin in "Limelight"

1952 - 1956 Was member of the Old Vic Company; appeared in numerous Shakespearean roles including Juliet, Ophelia in "Hamlet" (opposite Richard Burton) and Cordelia in "King Lear"

1950 Performed in Peter Brook's staging of Jean Anouihl's "Ring Around the Moon" (also starring Scofield), which brought her to the attention of Charlie Chaplin

1948 Feature film acting debut in "The Blind Goddess"

1948 Portrayed Ophelia opposite Paul Scofield's "Hamlet" at Stratford-on-Avon

1947 London stage debut, "The White Devil"

1946 Stage acting debut at age 15 with the Oxford Repertory Company

1943 Returned to England

1940 Brought to the USA as a war evacuee during the London blitz and lived in Florida

Toured the USA in one-person show, "These Are Women, a Portrait of Shakespeare's Heroines"

Had lead in the independent film "Book of Eve" (lensed 2001-2002)