Verna Bloom

Actor: Verna Bloom

Born: Aug 07, 1939 in Lynn, Massachusetts
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-'80s
Major Genres: Drama, Western
Career Highlights: National Lampoon's Animal House, Medium Cool, The Last Temptation of Christ
First Major Screen Credit: Medium Cool (1969)

Biography

Trained for an acting career by Uta Hagen and Herbert Bergdorf, Verna Bloom burst onto the Broadway scene in the role of psychotic somnambulist Charlotte Corday in the American production of Marat/Sade. Her first film was Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, playing the mother of incipient radical Mark Blankenship. She has since played character roles ranging from shopping-bag ladies to supercilious socialites in such films as High Plains Drifter (1971), Heroes (1977), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and After Hours (1985). In Martin Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ, Verna was seen as a decidedly careworn Virgin Mary. Verna Bloom's television credits include several made for TV movies, including Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975) and Playing for Time (1980). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Verna Bloom
In High Plains Drifter, 1973
Born	August 7, 1939 (1939-08-07) (age 69) Lynn, Massachusetts

Verna Bloom (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress. She co-starred in the 1973 film High Plains Drifter with Clint Eastwood and the 1974 made for TV movie Where Have All The People Gone? with Peter Graves and Kathleen Quinlan. She has had roles in more than 30 films and television episodes since the 1960s, including playing Mary, mother of Jesus, in The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988 and Marion Wormer in Animal House in 1978.

Bloom was born in Lynn, Massachusetts^[1] and attended the School of Fine Arts in Boston University, graduating with a BFA. She also studied at the HB Studio in New York City.^[2] She is Jewish.^[3]

Filmography

References

^ Verna Bloom Biography ((?)-)
^ Verna Bloom Biography - Yahoo! Movies
^ Cullen, Jim (2001). Restless in the Promised Land: Catholics and the American Dream. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 129. ISBN 1580510930.

External links

Verna Bloom at the Internet Movie Database
Verna Bloom at Allmovie

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NAME	Bloom, Verna
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DATE OF BIRTH	1939-08-07
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lynn, Massachusetts
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