Verna Bloom


Verna Frances Bloom was an American actress.

Career

On Broadway, 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 and Blanche Morton in Brighton Beach Memoirs. 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 was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and attended the School of Fine Arts in Boston University, graduating with a BFA in 1959. She also studied at the HB Studio in New York City. She was Jewish.
Verna Bloom died aged 80 on January 9, 2019 in Bar Harbor, Maine of complications of dementia.

Filmography

Film

Television