Vail Bloom

Vail Bloom is an American actress and producer known for her television and film performances. She gained widespread recognition for portraying attorney Heather Stevens on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Her performance on the series earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2008.

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. During her sophomore year at Princeton, she developed an interest in acting after a roommate asked her to appear in a student film. She graduated in 2004 with a degree in architecture. After graduating, she moved to California, hired a manager, and began taking acting classes.

Bloom's early acting work included a guest role on the television series Las Vegas and an appearance in the 2007 independent film Finishing the Game. In 2007, she joined the cast of The Young and the Restless as Heather Stevens, playing the role until 2010. She later returned to the soap opera as Heather Stevens in 2023, before exiting the role again in 2024 after her character was killed off.

Following her initial run on daytime television, Bloom appeared in a variety of television series and film projects, including Castle, Cold Case, A Valentine's Date, Angel of Death, Hollywood Heights, and Hello Ladies. In 2014, she appeared as herself in the third season of the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules.

Bloom featured in several films, including the 2015 movie Too Late, alongside Surviving the Wild, The Ghost Beyond, and Orphan Horse. In addition to acting, she served as an executive producer on Surviving the Wild and as a producer on Style Queens. Her later projects include the 2023 television film How to Frame a Family and an appearance in My Granddaughters Has Your Son's Face in 2026.

In 2014, during an episode of Vanderpump Rules, Bloom stated that she had experienced a drug problem during her initial years on The Young and the Restless. In February 2018, she filed for a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend Hayes Stuppy, stating they dated for three weeks in 2017 and alleging he sent unwanted emails and had a history of stalking. Bloom has one child, Charlie, born in August 2018.