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
I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco, ... A fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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.