Orlando Bloom
Orlando Bloom
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloomis a British actor. After having his breakthrough as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he rose to fame by further appearing in epic fantasy, historical epic, and fantasy adventure films. His other roles include Legolas in The Hobbit trilogy, Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Paris in Troy, and Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 January 1977
CityCanterbury, England
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco, ... A fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
It's so easy to forget what's important in life,
I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
I prefer Christina Aguilera to Britney Spears - loved her VOICE, what a voice!
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that my legal guardian was my real dad. He kind of acted like my dad, anyway. But he wasn't with my mother living at home with us. It's an unusual kind of story, but it was cool because I had two dads for a while, and it was useful in creating the character in the movie.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
He went home to Kentucky to deal with the loss of his father and the funeral arrangements and so on,
The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the fan mail. We've got bags of it.