Vail MacMillan Bloom is an American actress and producer. She portrayed the character Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless, for which she received a Daytime Emmy nomination.^[1] Bloom has also appeared in television guest roles, independent films, and reality television series Vanderpump Rules. Bloom graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor's Degree in architecture.

Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Connecticut and Florida.^[2] The daughter of a high school counselor and businessman/college professor,^[2] Bloom graduated from Princeton University in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree in architecture.^[3]

In 2003, Bloom placed third in Maxim's list of "Hometown Hotties".^[4][3] She became interested in acting when a fellow student at Princeton asked her to star in a short film.^[5]

Bloom played the role of assistant district attorney Heather Stevens on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, a role for which she received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2008.^[1] In March 2009, she appeared on the web series Angel of Death.^[6]

Bloom appeared in the 2015 film Too Late.^[7]

In 2014, Bloom admitted that she had a drug problem during her years on The Young and the Restless.^[8][9] “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.^[10]

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.^[11][12]

Bloom has two children, Charlie (born in August 2018)^[13][14] and Jack (born in January 2020).