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Claire Bloom

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Actress

The Resume

    (February 13, 1931- )
    Birth name is Patricia Claire Blume
    Acted in 'Limelight (1952),' 'Richard III (1955),' 'Alexander the Great (1956),' 'The Haunting (1963),' 'The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1969),' 'A Doll's House (1973),' 'Henry VIII (1979),' 'Hamlet (1980),' 'Clash of the Titans (1980),' 'Brideshead Revisited (1981),' 'Cymbeline (1982),' 'Queenie (1987),' 'Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987),' 'Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989),' 'The Age of Innocence (1993),' 'As the World Turns (1993-1995)' and 'Mighty Aphrodite (1995)'

Why she might be annoying:

    She is vain.
    She divorced three times.
    She slept with many of her co-stars, including Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn and Yul Brynner.
    She says she deliberately seeks out men who will treat her badly.
    She criticizes men who cheat, yet brags about her affair with Richard Burton while he was married.
    She wrote a memoir that was a thinly veiled attack on her ex-husband, the novelist Philip Roth.
    In her memoir, she claimed she wrote parts of Roth's books.
    She let Roth to push her daughter out of her life.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her father abandoned her family when she was a girl.
    She is a celebrated stage actress.
    Her interpretations of Shakespeare and Ibsen are critically acclaimed.
    She has aged well.
    Philip Roth was cruel and mentally abusive to her.
    Roth responded to her memoir with a vicious caricature of her in a new novel.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 13 Votes: 23.08% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 36 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 73 Votes: 42.47% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 59 Votes: 59.32% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 21 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 98 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 30 Votes: 43.33% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 50 Votes: 38.00% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 180 Votes: 43.89% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 114 Votes: 60.53% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 177 Votes: 59.89% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 101 Votes: 51.49% Annoying