Shauna Bloom
Shauna Bloom (born June 5, 1965) is an American stage, film and television actress, best known for her work on The Mentalist as Red John's accomplice, Rebecca Anderson.
Bloom was born in Daly City, California. She appeared on American Horror Story, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Nip/Tuck, and The Bold and the Beautiful. Film work includes Memoria[1] with James Franco,[2] Funeral Day, Is it a Crime with Cam’ron Giles, Knock Her Socks Off (Best Actress Nom, Flagler Film Festival), Sunshine Underground (official selection Glendale and Wasteland Film festivals) and the Oscar-winning live action short Visas and Virtue. She studied Theatre and Stage Performance at San Diego State University and then went on to receive her equity card while performing children's theatre at The American Stage Festival in New Hampshire.
She is the granddaughter of journeyman character actor Harry Wilson, who appeared in over 200 films including Some Like it Hot, Modern Times and The Wizard of Oz.
Career on Stage
Shauna will be working with the Portland Stage Company in Bess Welden’s world premiere Refuge Malja directed by Kareem Fahmy. She has performed Off Broadway in Let’s Get Ready Together at The Tank, Mother Love at the Alchemical Lab, and Resistance at The Wild Project. Los Angeles theatre includes The Closeness of the Horizon at The Odyssey Theatre, The Dinosaur Within at The Theatre @ Boston Court, Leipzig at The Stella Adler and Ouroboros at The Road Theatre Company. Bloom received an LA Weekly Award as producer and actress in the palindrome play Ouroboros by Los Angeles-based playwright Tom Jacobson in 2005. This production received numerous accolades and awards including a Critics Pick Citation from The Los Angeles Times.
References
- "Memoria Zwischenbilanz eines Mittelalterprojekts", Stiftung und Memoria, OLDENBOURG WISSENSCHAFTSVERLAG, 2012, doi:10.1524/9783050060484.61, ISBN 9783050060484
- FRANCO, JAMES (2016), "JAMES FRANCO ON SCHOOL", A Manner of Being, University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 38–42, doi:10.2307/j.ctt1hd192r.10, ISBN 9781613763766