Brooke Bloom

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Brooke Bloom is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Ronah in the drama film She's Lost Control (2014).{{cite web|title=FNC: She's Lost Control explores sexual surrogacy|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movies/shes-lost-control-explores-sexual-surrogacy-at-fnc|website=Montreal Gazette|accessdate=December 29, 2016|date=October 15, 2014}}

Career

Her first on-screen appearance was a role as Grunge Girl in the episode "Team Play" of CBS's medical drama television series Chicago Hope.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/brooke-bloom/credits/224938|title=Brooke Bloom {{!}} TV Guide|website=TVGuide.com|language=en|access-date=May 28, 2019}} In 1999, she appeared in several guest starring television roles, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, Felicity, Popular and Wasteland. She portrayed Teenage Usher in the romantic comedy film Forever Lulu (2000). She has also appeared in films All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Over Her Dead Body (2008), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), Gabi on the Roof in July (2010) and Ceremony (2010). She portrayed Ronah in the dark drama film She's Lost Control (2014), written and directed by Anja Marquardt.{{Citation|last=Filmwax Radio|title=BRIC TV / BK Live Interview: Anja Marquardt & Brooke Bloom (SHE'S LOST CONTROL)|date=July 17, 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTYaoQXEUc|access-date=May 28, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/nydn-entertainment-movies-lost-control-review-1-2155482-story.html|title='She's Lost Control' review: Brooke Bloom rivets as a sex surrogate who deals with wounded souls|last=Neumaier|first=Joe|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 28, 2019|archive-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529021602/https://www.latimes.com/nydn-entertainment-movies-lost-control-review-1-2155482-story.html|url-status=dead}} Bloom won the Best Actress award at the 2014 Thessaloniki International Film Festival for her performance in the film.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=607&newsid=2048|title=55th TIFF: The Awards|publisher=filmfestival.gr|accessdate=March 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311184428/http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=607&newsid=2048|archive-date=March 11, 2016|url-status=dead}} Marc Adams of Screen International said that he found "much to admire in Marquardt’s control and precision as well as a well sustained lead performance by lead actress Brooke Bloom (...) Brooke Bloom is impressive..."{{cite web|url=http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/shes-lost-control/5068518.article|title=Review: 'She's Lost Control'|date=May 9, 2014}}

She portrayed Cynthia Wells in 16 episodes of the police procedural drama television series CSI: Miami. She also had roles in television series Jack & Bobby, Everwood, JAG, In Justice, Good Wife, In Plain Sight, Law & Order, Carpoolers, Person of Interest and The New Normal. In 2017, she played Rebecca Rogers in the Netflix series Gypsy.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/10/gypsy-cast-brooke-bloom-series-regular-kimberly-quinn-recur-naomi-watts-netflix-1201830806/|title='Gypsy' Casts Brooke Bloom As Series Regular, Kimberly Quinn To Recur In Netflix Drama|work=Deadline|date=October 4, 2016|accessdate=October 5, 2016}}

In 2015, Bloom won an Obie Award, presented by the American Theatre Wing, for her performance in the off-Broadway play You Got Older, written by Clare Barron.Obie Awards, [http://www.obieawards.com/2015/05/2015-obie-award-winners-announced/ 2015 Winners].