Vail 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.
Early life and education
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.
Career
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 Restless as attorney Heather Stevens. She played the role from 2007 to 2010 and received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2008.
After leaving The Young and the Restless, Bloom appeared in projects including A Valentine's Date, Angel of Death, Cold Case, Hollywood Heights, and Hello Ladies.
In 2014, Bloom appeared as herself in the third season of the Bravo reality series Vanderpump Rules.
Bloom appeared in the films Too Late in 2015, Surviving the Wild, The Ghost Beyond, and Orphan Horse. She was also credited as an executive producer on Surviving the Wild and as a producer on Style Queens.
In 2023, Bloom returned to the Young and the Restless as Heather Stevens. She exited the role again in 2024 after the character was killed off.
In 2023, Bloom appeared in the television film How to Frame a Family. In 2026, she appeared in My Granddaughter Has Your Son's Face.
Personal life
In 2014, Bloom admitted that she had a drug problem during her years on The Young and the Restless. "I was on The Young and the Restless for just under three years and I was starting to get into this whole like… what seemed like the Hollywood lifestyle, and I was starting to get into a little bit of trouble with drugs," Bloom said in an episode of Vanderpump Rules.
In February 2018, Bloom filed for a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend Hayes Stuppy. Bloom claimed that she only dated Stuppy for three weeks in 2017 and that the reason for the restraining order was because he had sent her several unwanted emails and has a history of stalking.
