Verna Bloom
Verna Bloom ( born August 7, 1939 in Lynn, Massachusetts ) is an American actress.
Life
Bloom attended Boston University and graduated in 1959 her art studies with a Bachelor's degree from. Then she took in New York acting classes with Uta Hagen and Herbert Bergdorf and in 1967 a first engagement on Broadway. The late 1960s, began her film career at the side of Robert Forster in 1969, she played the female lead in Medium Cool, 1971, she starred alongside Peter Fonda and Warren Oates Western The long ride.
One of her most important roles they played in 1973 in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter. In the most commercially successful film comedy of the 1970s, I think, ' Animal House ( National Lampoon's Animal House ), she played the wife of University Dean Wormer. Your last major film role was the representation of the Virgin Mary in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988, since then it was only irregularly in television series like The Equalizer (1988 /1989), Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman (1993) and The West Wing - the West Wing (2003) to see.