Name: Orlando Bloom

Birth Name: Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom

Birthdate: Jan. 13, 1977

Birthplace: Canterbury, Kent, England

At 16, Bloom joined London's National Youth Theatre and trained with the British American Drama Academy on scholarship, gaining the experience he would use to land British TV roles. It was during one performance while attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama that director Peter Jackson discovered him and cast him as the elf Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which launched his career and led to roles in such blockbusters as The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and Kingdom of Heaven.


1. In 1998, he broke his back falling three stories.
2. He's dyslexic.
3. The man he thought was his father died when he was 4; he later found out the man who raised him afterwards was his biological father.
4. He's an extreme sports enthusiast.
5. He worked as a clay trapper (skeet shooting) at age 13.


"I haven't sold out yet. I don't feel like I've done anything too cheesy and I'm not in a hurry to make millions and millions of dollars. I got into this because I wanted to be an actor, not because I wanted to be famous or a celebrity."
— The Independent, Dec. 21, 2003

Sister: Samantha Bloom, actress, born 1975

FILMS

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - (2007) - Actor
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - (2006) - Actor
Haven - (2006) - Actor, Executive Producer
Elizabethtown - (2005) - Actor
Kingdom of Heaven - (2005) - Actor
Ned Kelly - (2004) - Actor
Troy - (2004) - Actor
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - (2003) - Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - (2003) - Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - (2002) - Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - (2001) - Actor