Vail Bloom

About

Vail MacMillan Bloom is an American actress and producer. She played Heather Stevens on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, a role for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2008. Bloom has also appeared in films and television series including Finishing the Game, Las Vegas, Cold Case, Castle, Too Late, Surviving the Wild, Orphan Horse, and Vanderpump Rules. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in architecture.

Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Connecticut and Florida. She attended Princeton University, where she studied architecture and was a member of the diSiac Dance Company. She graduated in 2004 with a degree in architecture.
During her Sophomore year at Princeton, Bloom became interested in acting after a roommate asked her to appear in a student film. After graduating, she moved to California, hired a manager, and began attending acting classes.

Bloom’s early acting credits included a guest role on Las Vegas and a role in the 2007 independent film Finishing the Game. In 2007, she joined the CBS soap opera The Young and the…