Orlando Bloom
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Orlando Bloom rocketed to fame through his role as Legolas, Greenleaf of the Woodland Realm, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Since then, this classically trained actor has gone from relative obscurity to major box office draw...not to mention big screen heartthrob.
Early Years
Bloom was born Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom on January 13, 1977, in Canterbury, England, to Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom. Bloom grew up believing that Harry Saul Bloom was his father, but after Harry Bloom’s death, Sonia Bloom revealed to her son that his father was actually family friend Colin Stone.
Bloom struggled in his early years of schooling, due to his dyslexia, but found his niche when he moved to London in 1993 to study acting at the National Youth Theatre. Through the theater, he was awarded a scholarship to the British American Drama Academy.
In 1997, he made his onscreen debut in the British hospital drama Casualty and later that year appeared on the big screen with Stephen Fry in Wilde, playing the character of Rentboy.
After filming Wilde, Bloom entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London to study acting and photography. His big break came in 1999 when he won the part in Lord of the Rings.
Movie Stardom
The first installment of the Lord of Rings series was hugely successful and made stars of all involved. The two sequels scored equally well in the box office and inspired a legion of obsessive fans. The movies won many awards, and Bloom won a Screen Actors’ Guild award in 2003 for Best Ensemble Cast.
Also in 2003, Bloom went from one successful franchise to another, by palying Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. That film was one of the highest grossing films of the year, and Bloom reprised his role of Will Turner in the sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The second film hit theaters in summer of 2006 and broke box office records.
Bloom found time for more moviemaking outside of his Rings and Pirates roles. In 2005, he starred in Kingdom of Heaven and Elizabethtown. While neither film made the splash of his other movies, Bloom still received critical praise for his work. He also appeared in the straight to video Calcium Kid the same year.
Other films in which he has appeared include:
- Black Hawk Down
- Ned Kelly
- Troy
The Future
Bloom working on a number of films slated for release over the next year:
- September 2006 - Haven - Bloom will play the character of Shy in this indie thriller by the people behind the Academy Award winning Crash.
- Early 2007 - Love and Other Disasters - as Hollywood Pablo
- Early 2007 - Seasons of Dust - Bloom stars as Ricky in the Depression era drama, opposite his on-again, off-again girlfriend Kate Bosworth.
- May 2007 - Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - as Willy Turner.
Orlando Bloom Trivia
- In London in 1998, Bloom fell three stories and broke his back. Doctors warned he may never walk again, but he walked out of the hospital on crutches twelve days later.
- He was People magazine’s Hottest Bachelor in 2004.
- While filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Bloom convinced the other members of the Fellowship of the Ring to get tattoos commemorating their roles. His tattoo, which is on his right wrist, is the word “nine” written in “elfish.”
- He adopted a dog named Sidi in Morocco during the filming of Kingdom of Heaven.
- He is rumored to own a horse farm near Louisville, KY.
- Bloom is a huge Manchester United fan.
- He was named after composer Orlando Gibbons.
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ORLANDO BLOOM YOU ARE THE MOST HANDSOME ACTOR ALIVE THAT EVERY GIRL KNOWS I HOPE ONE OF THESE DAY I HAVE A CHANCE TO MEET YOU IN PERSON IN LOS ANGELES I WILL BE SO HAPPY THAT I FINALLY MET YOU AT LAST.
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