Rachel Bloom
Biography
Life Story
Rachel Bloom is best known for co-creating and starring in the tv series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" for which she has won a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice and TCA Award. She was born in 1987 and hails from Manhattan Beach, California. Rachel attended NYU, Tisch School of the Arts in New York City for theater. After graduating from NYU in 2009 with a B.F.A. in drama, Rachel continued to study improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NY. In 2010, Rachel released her first Internet music video, "F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury", which went viral and was nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form." While working as a tv writer in Los Angeles she continued to make Internet music videos which eventually caught the eye of Rachel's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" co-creator, Aline Brosh McKenna.
Family
Trivia
Her favorite book by Ray Bradbury is "The Martian Chronicles".
Attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
She is of Ukrainian Jewish, Russian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish descent.
Her college roommate was Ilana Glazer.
She has been diagnosed with and spoken openly about her experiences with Depression, Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
(September 14, 2019) After winning an Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), Bloom announced she is 3 months pregnant with her first child with husband Dan Gregor.
Personal Quotes
[on her attraction to Ray Bradbury] The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
