Claire Bloom at 90: the star's stage and screen career – in pictures
On her 90th birthday, look back at some of the British actor’s great roles in the West End, on Broadway and in film and TV
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The Blind Goddess, 1948, with Michael Denison
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
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Limelight, 1952, with Charlie Chaplin
Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar
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The Man Between, 1953, with James Mason
Photograph: British Lion Film Corp/Studiocanal/Allstar
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Richard III, 1955, as Lady Anne
Photograph: Ronald Grant
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The Brothers Karamazov, 1958, with Yul Brynner
Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar
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Look Back in Anger, 1959, with Richard Burton and Gary Raymond
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
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Rashomon, 1959, on Broadway, with Rod Steiger
Photograph: Bettmann
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The Chapman Report, 1962, with Glynis Johns, Jane Fonda and Shelley Winters
Photograph: Entertainment Pictures/Alamy
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With Rod Steiger and their daughter Anna in 1963
Photograph: Keystone Press/Alamy
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Bloom in 1965
Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965, with Richard Burton
Photograph: Paramount/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
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The Illustrated Man, 1969
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
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A Doll’s House, 1973, at the Criterion theatre
Photograph: Reg Wilson/Rex/Shutterstock
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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1974, with Joss Ackland
Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock
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Brideshead Revisited, 1981, with Diana Quick
Photograph: Ronald Grant
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With husband Philip Roth in 1990
Photograph: Ian Cook/the Life Images Collection/Getty
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, 2006, at Theatre Royal Haymarket, with Billy Zane
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian
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The King’s Speech, 2010, as Queen Mary
Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy
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Claire Bloom in 2016
Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian
