Verna Frances Bloom (August 7, 1938 – January 9, 2019) was an American actress.
Early life and education
Verna Frances Bloom, born on August 7, 1938, in Lynn, Massachusetts, grew up in a Russian Jewish family
where her father, Milton, operated a grocery store. Her mother, Sara (Damsky) Bloom, initially focused on managing their household. After Milton and Sara divorced, Sara took charge of the family grocery business and later transitioned to bookkeeping for a trucking company.
She attended the School of Fine Arts at Boston University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1959.
She also studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio for actors in New York City.
Career
On
Broadway theatre, Bloom portrayed
Charlotte Corday in
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1967) and Blanche Morton in
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983).
She made her film debut in
Medium Cool, and then co-starred in
Clint Eastwood's 1973 film,
High Plains Drifter and in the 1974 made-for-TV movie
Where Have All The People Gone? with Peter Graves and
Kathleen Quinlan. Bloom also had roles in more than 30 films and
television episodes beginning the 1960s, including playing Mary, mother of
Jesus, in
The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988 and Marion Wormer in
Animal House in 1978.
Personal life and death
Bloom married Richard Collier, but they separated by 1969. They began the Trident Theater in Denver Colorado, which operated from 1963 to 1965.
In 1972 she married film critic
Jay Cocks. They had a son, Sam, born in 1981. The couple remained married until her death.
Bloom died aged 80 on January 9, 2019, in Bar Harbor, Maine, from complications of dementia.
Filmography
Film
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Television
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| Episode: "The Screaming Woman" |
| Episode: "The Fence" |
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| Episode: "Pilot" |
| Episode: "The Ten Year Honeymoon" |
| TV movie |
| Episode: "Pilot" |
| TV movie |
| Episode: "Payment Deferred" |
| Episode: "On the Edge" |
| Episode: "The Dancing Bear" |
| Episode: "Christmas" |
| Episode: "A Case History" |
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| Episode: "No Vacancy" |
| Episode: "Target of Choice" |
| Episode: "Race Traitors" |
| Episode: "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" |
| Episode: "The Long Goodbye" |
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